COLLECTION

LA COLLECTION QUI N'EXISTAIT PAS

Joachim Olender
In June 2011, Herman Daled decides to sell off his collection of conceptual art. The MoMA in New York has proposed to buy it from him. A man looks back at his past, and that of an aesthetic and philosophic movement that marked the second half of the twentieth century. Exploring this movement, the film has chosen to hold up a mirror between a man and a philosophy....

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

WANDELEN IN BINNENLAND: PORTRET VAN DE FOTOGRAAF JULIEN COULOMMIER

Jan Vromman
The Belgian photographer Julien Coulommier doesn’t deal in the exotic, the eccentric, the technical performance; he penetrates the depth of banality, he is profoundly connected with his subjects. An Inland Walk is not only a portrait of a photographer, but also a portrait of the artistic context, the spirit of the time in which the work was developed (Cobra, etc.)...

MAMA BRAZIL

Luc Gobyn
Mama Brazil is a triptic travelmovie about the memorial (1994-2004) of the dead of Ayrton Senna. Each movie is a description of one weekend. 1. Belgium Senna Club is going from Brussels to Imola Italie. 2. A view of the Foundation Ayrton Senna and cemetery Morumbi, Sao Paulo Brasil. 3. Visiting of the Formule One Grand Prix of Brazil, Sao Paulo....

CORBION, BELGIUM, WHERE RIMBAUD AND VERLAINE LIVED TOGETHER IN THE WOODS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting Corbion near the French-Belgian border, where the ruins still could be seen tucked away in the forest, of the little cottage where French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived together for a short while 100 years earlier, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...

MAISHA NI KARATA, LA VIE EST UN JEU DE CARTES

Philippe de Pierpont
In 1991, de Pierpont worked for the first time with six forward young boys, living in a tight group on the streets of Bujumbura in Burundi. In 1994 he went back to meet the six, and after that visit it took almost ten years before he saw them again. In ‘Maisha ni Karata’ images of the last encounters alternate with images from ’91 and ’94...

ENTHALTE AM TOTENMEHR

Harald Thys
'Enthalte am Totenmehr' is a found-footage video with on the background the sound of a car driving. More prominent on the foreground we hear a male Russian voice and a rambling female German voice. The film features images of typical German houses, hills, forests, revolting images of sick and dead people, children playing, girl gymnasts, etc...

YEAH, IN THE BATHROOM

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte, wearing a black-and-white striped costume and matching make-up, pretends to be an American rockstar. In an incomprehensible accent he brags about his concert-tour, the media and his home in Texas. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...

Light Showers, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

LIGHT SHOWERS

Peter Finnemore
The artist lights up some fireworks and then, under his umbrella, he enjoys a rain of sparks....

ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE

Jef Cornelis
An interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...