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BUILDING 19 VERDIEPINGEN
Danny MatthysAbout a building which was an astonishing lack of finishing touches, even the floors were not numbered outside the elevators. Combining video with slides and pictures, this installation was part of a phase in which Matthys methodically examined various media....
Shelly Silver, Today., 1978-1979 © the artist
LE CALVAIRE DE R. MUTT
Jacques LennepIn Le calvaire de R. Mutt, Lennep plays the fictitious character R. Mutt — the pseudonym Marcel Duchamp used as author of the Fountain. We watch R. Mutt climbing a mountain with a urinal on his shoulder....
THANK YOU FOR COMING
Jacques Charlier - Daniel Remi‘Thank you for coming’ is a compilation of humourist sketches, playfully balancing between kitsch and absurdity. Impulsively canned with the help of friends and neighbours, these low-budget videos show unassuming and endearing pastiches and spoofs on the world of art and television, with a fondness of typically Belgian themes...
COUNTDOWN TO NOTHING
Lucile DesamoryAn “autobiographical self-activation musical around hypnosis and friendship”. Made in collaboration with musician Kevin Blechdom, the musical “Countdown to Nothing” tells the story of two women meeting around a tree, somewhere, maybe in a park. One of them is flying around, can’t put her feet on the ground while the other is tangled in flesh web...
THE JOYCEAN SOCIETY
Dora GarcíaA group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years. Once they reach the last word, a very enigmatic "the," they begin again with the first word, "riverrun." The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting...
Le Centre et La Classe, 1970, Boris Lehman © the artist
LE CENTRE ET LA CLASSE
Boris LehmanThe PMS (Psychological, Medical and Social) Centres measure and facilitate the development of schoolchildren in Belgium. This film, commissioned by the Ministry for National Education, demonstrates the methods adopted with children in the sixième (around 10-11 years), through their medical, academic and other assessments and the processes for identifying and addressing any problems...
CONTAINER 01: OVER SENTIMENTALITEIT
Jef CornelisOn the occassion of ‘het ontroerparcours’ (course of emotions), a series of articles in which a number of Flemish people were questioned about their subjective definition and experience of ‘emotion’, the Container-panel decides to investigate the term...
