COLLECTION

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

JAMES ENSOR IN OOSTENDE CA 1920

Guillaume Bijl
The highly individual and visionary work of James Ensor (1860-1949), familiar for its masquerades, carnival scenes and grotesque caricatures, is not easily categorized under any modern genre. Ensor had close ties with Ostend, where he was born and continued to live, and it was the source of inspiration for many of his works...

A CITY REMIX

Kurt D'Haeseleer
An answer to the genre of “city symphonies”, ‘A City Remix’ offers a look at the generic, expanded and ex/imploded contemporary cities. Sociological, urban, economical and personal patterns are woven into a work where each image relates both to every other image and to daily life. An attempt to show what our high-speed culture has made invisible...

Teatro, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

TEATRO

Angel Vergara
’Teatro’ is a montage of images showing the Partido Popular’s last local party assembly in Castelló’s theater before the municipal and regional elections, alternating with images of Vergara’s performances. After the assembly, Vergara’s alter ego Straatman sits outside on the street, on a white canvas on which he had been drawing...

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Charley Case

IDÉALE AUDIENCE : UN PAYSAGE TÉLÉVISUEL EN FRANCE

Joëlle de La Casinière
Idéale audience is a television ‘commedia dell’Arte’, written in TV. The composition of the work presents variations on three themes: the self-promotion of TV channels, the ideal audience filmed in a listening attitude, and ecstatic female announcers. All these stanzas are interspersed with McLuhanesque questions about the television medium, posed by cartoon characters...

SEQUENZA

Manon de Boer - George van Dam
sequenza is an experimental film project by Manon de Boer and George Van Dam based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin by Luciano Berio....

PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS

Filip Francis
A series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....

IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST, ETC.

Jacques Lennep
Jacques Lennep creates a farcical imitation of Christ based on a bust of Jacques-Louis David by François Rude and the Ecce homo in the École de Saint-Sulpice....

L'OEUF, LA POULE, DALI ET MOI

Jacques Lennep
Lennep finds a golden egg and tries to find out where it came from. He encounters a black cock and breaks the egg on his forehead....