COLLECTION

NEWSPAPERS MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance, in which we see Monsieur Delmotte entering the image, covered completely with newspapers. He frees himself from the newspapers and walks away from the camera, leaving the papers behind. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

ROBERTE'S DANCE

Gerrit Messiaen - Peter Krüger
The rocking story of Roberte, 63, who dances away her sorrows on a Saturday night. She goes out, dancing in a bar, called ‘Metro Valdi’. The film is a tragicomic portrait of an old woman living in Brussels. This one evening reflects her whole life and portrays at the same time Brussels-by-night. (Source: https://www.intifilms.com)...

PRISM

An van. Dienderen - Rosine Mbakam - Eléonore Yameogo
For PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin...

L'OMBRELLE DESCENDANT UN ESCABEAU

Jacques Louis Nyst
In 'L’ombrelle descendant un escabeau’ (a title directly quoting Marcel Duchamp’s 'Nu descendant un escalier’) Jacques Louis Nyst appears once more as the explorer who discovers for the first time a common and well-known object, the paper parasol this time. He tries to explain its origins, way of life, and even reproductive techniques...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD

Koen Theys
The performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...

LE VOYAGE DE CHRISTOPHE COLOMB

Jacques Louis Nyst
This short video is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES I: WOTRUBA WIEN

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

THE ROSES

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte goes to a public garden and with a pair of gardening shears he cuts all the roses from a rose bed. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

SHARING A SONORITY

Charlemagne Palestine
"Alga Marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of Charlemagne Palestine’s historical works...

BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...