COLLECTION

UPRIGHT DRUM IN WATER

Pieter Geenen
Protagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree...

Adieu Rita, André S. Labarthe, 1987. Courtesy the Artist

ADIEU RITA

André S. Labarthe
André S. Labarthe pays tribute to Rita Hayworth, who died on May 1987 while television reports from the 40th Cannes Film Festival. This heartfelt goodbye evolves into a meditation about the situation of the cinema in the era of television’s cultural hegemony...

DANSER RAVEL ET DEBUSSY

Thierry De Mey
Three choreography devised from orchestral works of Ravel and Debussy. Mother Goose (Ravel) brings together over sixty dancers and choreographers in a forest. Poetry of nature, wild impulses of the body, evocations of myths, fairies and witches...

MOLTEN BALL

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 16 : COBOY CHASSEUR

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Once again the weather is beautiful when farmer Steven and his wife Jeanine take the cows to the meadow. Cowboy and Indian want to take advantage of this fine weather to go out hunting. Cowboy is lucky: he shoots a bird. Indian is less fortunate: his arrow fails and he causes a plane to crash. Passengers in the plane were Joseph and Mary. Luckily they fall in the pond and their fall is broken...

TALAEEN A JUNUUB / UP TO THE SOUTH

Jayce Salloum - Walid Raad
This documentary examines consequences of and forms of resistance to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon as well as how such issues are (mis)represented in the West. The film is a close examination of ideas and figures that have become tied to the region: terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance, collaboration and experts/leaders...

Jokes, 2000 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

MEETING POINT OVER THE EDGES

Angel Vergara
’Meeting Point over the Edges’ consists of two parts: ’Jokes’ and ’Straatman Army’. During ’Over the Edges’ In 2000 Vergara participated in ’Over the Edges’, a group exhibition in Ghent’s inner city. Vergara used equipment from the Belgian army for his project...

PLACES (GARDENING (2))

Hans Op de Beeck
‘Places (Gardening 2)’ is a short animated film without an explicit narrative structure, based on a series of pencil drawings made by the artist during his stay at P.S.1 in New York in 2002-2003. The animated film itself was made in 2004. The film does not tell a story, but presents the viewer with a sequence of constantly transforming imaginary places...

COUPURE LINKS / COUPURE RECHTS

Danny Matthys
A stately street in Ghent, along two sides of the canal, filmed with a keen interest for the numerous bridges....

VIVA PARADIS

Isabelle Tollenaere
Viva Paradis captures a moment in a land, Tunisia, in the midst of transformation. From an abandoned luxury hotel and the ruins of Carthage to the traces of the recent revolution. The fighting is over, but what now? From March 10-16, 2011, filmmaker Isabelle Tollenaere recorded the peace following the revolution, by making images of the tourism industry...