COLLECTION

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

THÉRÉSA PLANE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...

BABY ELEPHANT

Sarah Vanagt
A seven-year-old boy talks to a little elephant in the basement of the Africa Museum in Tervuren (Brussels)....

CAPITAL BRASILIA

Robert Suermondt
Filming a city always has a documentary value. But that is not what prevails in Suermondt’s work. What is striking about Brasilia is its ability to portray urban spaces as fictional ones. Streets and stations become sets on which accidental passers-by serve as actors performing a scene in a fiction film...

VIDÉO HEBDO 65

Claude Cattelain
 After 65 videos posted every week during 16 months, as a kind of auto-da-fé, the camera is burned....

EPOS VOSTELL VOLUME III

Wolf Vostell

Eastwesteast, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

EASTWESTEAST

Ria Pacquée
In 'EASTWESTEAST' (a slideshow that has been transferred to digital video), Ria Pacquée compiles images of—often conspicuous—people in the street that have been photographed from the back. In various countries (including Belgium, India, France and Mali), Pacquée has shot very colourfully dressed women and men...

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

Marie Voignier
How an individual or group relates to other things/the Other that are situated far-off, is highlighted in the absolute cliché of the tourist. For indeed, at his or her destiny the tourist who wants to escape the everyday narrow-mindedness is supposed to pay little or no heed to the ‘reality’ of the other place...

OCCUPIED

Peter Downsbrough
The film is shot entirely within the site of the Cité Administrative in Brussels. In an interview during the early stages of this project, Peter Downsbrough said : " I use film to introduce time within my observation. Its very unfolding makes film the ideal means to do this"...

IJSBREKER 15: GOOCHELEN VERSUS PARAPSYCHOLOGIE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest
Priceless jokes, scientifically proven facts, well-intended or malicious manipulations of our consciousness, or artistic tricks? There isn’t much difference...