COLLECTION

“GEEF ME ZEEP. GEEF ME EEN HANDDOEK.”

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
During thirty years, Piet Mensvoort was a missionary in the former Dutch New Guinea. In “Geef me zeep. Geef me een handdoek.” Mensvoort tells how his belief has changed under the influence of local conditions and how the Christian charity based activity was seen by the population...

IJSBREKER 02: DE CULTUUR IN DE KRANT

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest - Jackie Claeys
This episode of ’Ijsbreker’ examines the matter of cultural reporting in Flemish newspapers, and more particularly in the quality newspapers De Morgen and De Standaard...

DOUBLE RAP SCRATCH

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...

A SMALL TOWN IN SPAIN, TRIPTYCH

Jan Vromman
In A Small Town in Spain, triptych we look back to the old- and recent history of the small town Trujillo (Extremadura, Spain). With this retrospection we stay, overwhelmed by tender memories, always close to its inhabitants. ...

INSOMNIAC DREAM

Edith Dekyndt
A camera is trying to focus on an empty wall in the exhibition space. The fact that it is pointed at a dark surface prevents the auto-focus mechanism from finding a sharp focus. The film obtained is projected onto the same area, creating a mirror effect which disturbs our perception of it...

THE WHOLE SKIN TYPES CATALOG (A TEPID SUMMER)

Edith Dekyndt
In order to construct this work Dekyndt made a filmed review of different skins – used as a colour palette. The backs of different persons were filmed, focusing each time on the spot between the shoulder blades. The interweaving and the succession of skins, from very light to very dark, account for the diversity and unique texture of each skin...

ETA, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ETA

Angel Vergara
The artist made this film with a grant he received from the ’Fondation de la Tapisserie’ in Tournai. The film documents a performance in which the artist is walking around in Tournai, while he is holding a series of empty frames. With the empty frames he is suggesting that the actual artistic content and input of his performances should be looked for in the city itself...

HORAIZON

Meggy Rustamova
Horaizon is an experimental film moderating between photography, moving image and sound. The title is referring to the English phonetic pronunciation of the world horizon. The film is shot in different locations throughout the world. The horizons, sunsets and weather conditions between these places form the common thread throughout the film...

A FILM

Marie José Burki
In her video works, the Swiss artist and photographer Marie José Burki explores how the visible can be classified, formatted and categorized. Burki sets out from observation and plays with audiovisual codes. The arbitrarily entitled A film wants and doesn’t want to be ‘a film’. Conceived deliberately for a projection room — i.e...

VAN ABBEMUSEUM

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme on television Kunst-Zaken, Cornelis made a television report about the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands)...