COLLECTION

ALBERTA’S ROOM

Victoire Karera Kampire
Alberta's Room is a journey into the dreams and nightmares of Alberta Gay. The film looks back at a pop icon's tragic fate, exploring a female perspective on a tragedy that has been described as a man's business. Alberta's Room is an experimental film about absence and grief, straddling the border between documentary and fiction....

Peinture radiophonique numéro 1, 2005, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PEINTURE RADIOPHONIQUE NUMÉRO 1

Angel Vergara
While a fragment of France Culture’s radio show ’Peinture Fraîche’, in which Jean Daive is interviewing the Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943-2005), is heard, a montage of digitally edited images depicting Vergara’s alter ego Straatman drawing architectural shapes on a wall is shown . The shapes and colours refer back to the interview with Zaugg....

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

Michel Couturier
The shipping lane between Calais and the cliffs of Dover is the busiest in the world. This stretch of water is also the favoured route used by illegal immigrants in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom from Calais. The west-east axis of global trade is perpendicular to the south-north axis of migration triggered by war and poverty...

WIDEAWAKE

Orla Barry
Language, in written as well as in spoken form, constitutes the essence of Orla Barry’s work. She ties words into phrases, kneads sentences into paragraphs, ending up with a visual as well as verbal unity, an apparently non-structured stream-of-consciousness with an open and poetical structure. The monologue in ’Wideawake’ is performed by Caroline Donnely...

NOCTURNE #2

Pieter Geenen
Registered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...

A Message from Space in my Backyard, 2008-2009, Krassimir Terizev © the artist

A MESSAGE FROM SPACE IN MY BACKYARD

Krassimir Terziev
"It is far from rational from the perspective of single human life to imagine that a piece of space shuttle, after being launched some 20 years ago, would hit a woman in her backyard in California, or a piece of derelict Russian satellite, after orbiting the earth for a several decades, would reach its final destination in the desert of Australia in front of local shepherds...

BAD IDEAS FOR PARADISE

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
A 10 minute experimental narrative telling the story of Karen Annasdaughter, a young woman raised by a group of radicals in the woods of Nova Scotia. With this project Vey Duke and Battersby aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the viewer which was not cleared before. "We want this space to contain empathy (identification) and joy...

COUP DE FOUDRE

Hänzel & Gretzel
In Coup de Foudre, Hänzel & Gretzel samples and loops movies' dialogues and the famous All Along The Watchtower in the Jimi Hendrix version. This soundscape serves as a background for a short video where we assist to the encounter between a man and a woman in a public toilette....

THE LOST SAIL

Justine Cappelle
The competences is a series of videos in which I explore the incompetences I experience to express myself after breaking up a relationship. The first video deals with the incompetence to show. In the second I search for a way to represent the inability to feel. The third video is about the incompetence to speak, find words...

APPUNTI DEL PASSAGGIO

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Appunti del passaggio reconstructs forgotten histories of migrants who moved from Italy to Switzerland in the 1960s. Their experiences were characterised by being utilised exclusively as low skilled labour and by being subjected to widespread discrimination and xenophobia...