COLLECTION

SOUND WATCH

Rik De Boe
Nature is inherently synchronous. Cinema, however, can create an imaginary vacuum between image and sound, where new meanings and metaphors are hidden...

JEANNE LA PUCELLE

Ana Torfs
In this early video work, made in 1988, at the end of her second year at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels, Ana Torfs shows a contemporary version of the life of Joan of Arc, based on testimonies of her friends and enemies, as transmitted in Jeanne d’Arc par elle-même et par ses témoins (1971) by historian Régine Pernoud...

PORQUE TE VAS (PORTRAITS)

Valérie Mannaerts
Three self portraits in a one minute loop, slowly fading in and out....

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...

STANDING OVATION

Bernard Gigounon
The original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir’s short film ‘Une partie de campagne’ (1936) picturing a river under heavy rain has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are here recalling the sound of the rain. The video was originally edited as part of an in-situ installation during a concert by Martha Argerich at the Royal Music Academy...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PORNO

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
Images of porno movies alternate with random TV images of sport events, nature documentaries, military exercises and so on. The voice-over extols porno as the ultimate art form....

FEUILLETON - THE SEVEN CAPITAL SINS

Angel Vergara
Feuilleton - The seven capital sins is the main video installation realised by Angel Vergara for the Belgian pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale...

STAND HERE AT THE EDGE

Andrea Geyer
When viewing a movie, what we know can foreclose the possibility of vision. ’Stand here at the Edge’, tries to construct an epistemological break, by simply suggesting to close ones eyes and challenge the entitlement and “knowledge” that so often comes with the familiarity of our gaze...

MAX BILL

Jef Cornelis
Max Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...

TEMPS D’HIVER

Marie André
In the heart of winter, a filmmaker is at work. Her work encompasses her life, the place of her body in within the season, her past, cinema, her friends and colleagues from Brussels (Alexandra Dementieva, Boris Lehman...). These observations by André are visualised in a minimalist way, but also with intimacy and richness in emotions and detail...