COLLECTION

IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
The television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...

NADINE

Jacques Lennep
The artist talks about his holiday as a child when he became friends with Nadine. Old photographs of Nadine and Lennep are alternated with images of desolate places....

JACQUES CHARLIER & LE GLOUPIER

Jacques Charlier
An filmed introduction/lecture/performance of Jacques Charlier about Noel Godin and a film by Stefaan Decostere but most of all about a certain country called Belgium......

TOOLS FOR THE REVOLUTION

Andrea Geyer
A text calling for action appears over the animation of an opened, receptive hand. However, the music - Eric Satie’s well-known ’Gymnopedie No. 1’ – gets stuck, begins over and over again and so never evolves. "(.....

DÉJÀ VU (HALLU)

Michel François
Michel François is fascinated by the small signs of life, the trivial moments and touches that are bestowed with every appearance of magic at the right time. Beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment occur. François tries to induce these experiences and to grasp the mobility and the elusiveness of perception...

TO EACH HIS OWN MASK

Tine Guns
We live in times of crises and failing economic systems. No wonder that questions of change are recurrent. Protest culture is having a revival. Every revolution has its icons. Nowadays, we see the mask show up. Wearing a mask is a carnivalesque strategy. Carnival is a ritual, temporarily dismantling social and political regimes, suspending norms and values...

CAMPING COSMOS

Jan Bucquoy
On a campsite at the Belgian coast, the delegate of the Ministry of culture Jan Bucquoy must bring culture nearer to the working class. But the residents of this caravan park prefer to look at soccer, a boxing-match or a beauty-contest. They are not interested in an interview with the famous writer Pierre Mertens...

HÉLÈNE

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
A view on Raoul de Keyser’s exhibition in the contemporary art section of the Royal Museum in Antwerp: views of the museum, entrance hall and rooms housing the Raoul de Keyser exhibition. Raoul de Keyser strolls with Jef Cornelis across a football pitch in Deinze talking about the influence of football on his paintings. We see a few paintings on football pitch themes....

IJSBREKER 14: LITERAIRE TIJDSCHRIFTEN

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
During the beginning of the eighties there were about eighty different literary magazines in Flanders, even though in the overall picture renowned editors and authors were few and far between. This episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ came about following the creation of two new magazines from the ashes of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift: the Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT) and Diogenes...