COLLECTION

CRIME 01

Koen Theys
This is the first of two videos that are an interpretation by Koen Theys of the two home movies Adolf Hitler made during his lifetime. One of these home movies shows the german shepherd Blondi who is running on the terras of the Eagle’s nest in the German Alps. Crime 01 is the registration of a performance by Koen Theys held in a squat in Ghent...

L'ART DU COUPLE

Jan Bucquoy
The artist and film maker plays the part of himself in this feature film that highlights Bucquoy’s relationships of the past two or three years, with the assistance of some ten (ex-)lovers with whom he had a relation in this period. What kind of relations do people enter into? Bucquoy: “Living together or separately—I've tried it but it is too expensive, as my mother used to say...

MARCELS

Emilio López-Menchero
On September 2005, Emilio López-Menchero held an exhibition at Nadja Vilenne galery in Liège entitled MARCELs. Along with previous drawings, photographs and objects, the artist occupied the main room of the space with numbered singlets hung on aligned wires as people are used to do to dry their clothes...

Ringo Gringo, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

RINGO GRINGO

Peter Finnemore
A fix camera films some bushes, but in the middle of the image a mirror reflects what's going on behind the camera. Finnemore moves slowly forward and lights up a firecracker, then he points it straight in front of him and the bullets hit the mirror: like in several other videos, Finnemore criticizes in a funny and playful way all sort of violence....

KINSHASA, CITY ON THE GO

Thierry De Mey
In Kinshasa, there is movement everywhere. The camera, guided by one of those familiar with the city’s flow, reveals the vibrations of the Kinshasa megalopolis. The spectator can follow the footsteps of one of these "guides"...

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...

QUIBERON, BRETAGNE, FRANCE, ON A DOLMEN

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting a Dolmen in Brittany, France, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back. A secret performance to pay an hommage to the time they met and when Devos did the performance 'I Wanna be Injured' at the end of Van Kerckhoven's exhibition '=Basic' in Art Something, Amsterdam...

MY BROTHER’S GARDENS

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...

AFTER ALL

Charley Case
In ‘(After all)’ the faces of several people are mounted one after the other, partly illuminated by flickering fires. An elderly man appears on the screen every now and then, holding a torch. The sound in the background reminds of dark shamanist throat-singing and the video as a whole gives the impression of an age-old ritual in a primeval forest....

TU NE VERRAS PAS VERAPAZ

Didier Volckaert - An van. Dienderen
There is an old song from Ghent, ‘Wie goat er mee noar Verapas?’ (Who goes along to Verapaz?), that was popular at the beginning of the last century. It refers to an unfamiliar piece of Belgium’s history: the former Belgian colony in Guatemala, Santo Tomas de Castilla...