COLLECTION

LOSS

Hans Op de Beeck
The work of Hans op de Beeck always breathes an atmosphere of profound emptiness. Characters, without words and totally alienated, stride through desolate landscapes and situations, out of which all hope seems to have leaked away. This is a world, seemingly lavished in the acid of everyday life, drenched in the liquid of loss...

ANDRÉ ANDÉR

Karen Vanderborght
Portrait of the town fool and the nutty film student behind the camera. Does the person in front of the camera becomes an ‘object’ as soon as he or she is transformed into an ‘image’? This work was the final dissertation of Vanderborght....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
A number of structural modules (design and music) and a rule set are introduced to twenty-odd video artists; with these elements the artists were supposed to produce a video about an application of the video medium (surveillance, simulation, etc.)...

BURROUGHS VERTICAL?

Hänzel & Gretzel
‘Burroughs Vertical?’, a video installation on six monitors and made with four tapes, mixes the voice and photos of the American Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs with a flashing stream of image fragments. Two balls made out of concentric circles in green and orange keep spinning around like they are trying to hypnotize the audience...

THE NATURAL LOOK

Steve Reinke
"There is no future in reproduction. I have no concern with any species extending itself through time. You think you have given birth to a baby, when really you have given birth to a bus driver, or tax collector. Instead I'm interested in the placenta, the real mother of us all, forgotten discarded. The softest machine, all lipids and blood, that blooms and rots like any vegetal/floral martyr...

VANDALES ET VAMPIRES (NUITS SANGLANTES)

Lucile Desamory
In the twilight, an errant sleepwalker meets a vampire hunting for fresh blood...  ...

THE BREECHES (2)

Messieurs Delmotte
Second part of a performace diptych. A person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. From between his legs a pot of choco pasta is slowly emptied....

DARK MATTER

Lucile Desamory
In 1989, a wave of unidentified flying objects (UFO's) swept through Belgium. A woman, who witnessed the phenomenon, talks about her consternation....

COGELS OSYLEI, BERCHEM

Jef Cornelis
Cogels Osylei is an unique district, built around 1900 on the outskirts of Antwerp. With its exuberant mixture of neo-styles and Jugendstil, it was often discarded as the absolute limit of bad taste, to the point that plans were made in the 1970s to tear down the area altogether...

DOCUMENT F098

Vidéoconférence
Vidéoconférence is a research team made up of video makers and historians. Their purpose is the recovery, restoration and display of documents that link up poetical truth with beauty. ’Document F098’ is the last reel of rushes shot by a Russian journalist during autumn/winter of 1942...