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Shelly Silver, SOUTHSIDE, 1978 © the artist
UNE BROSSE, UNE RAMASSETTE ET LA MÉLANCOLIE
Jacques LennepThis video is based on Dürer’s Melancholia. According to Lennep, the angel suffers from melancholia because she misses a few things. The artist therefore embarks on a quest for that which the angel needs. In the end he finds her a dustpan and brush....
SCÈNES DE CHASSE AU SANGLIER
Claudio Pazienza"The initial impulse stems from this: to question the notion of the ‘real’, precise yet at the same time vague...
Toroni, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
TORONI
Angel VergaraStraatman is posing for a work by Niele Toroni, during the opening of a solo exhibition Niele Toroni in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. Toroni himself approaches him....
Ringleaders, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
RINGLEADERS
Peter FinnemoreFinnemore's crew of kids and other family members have fun by doing ring a Ring-o'Roses....
LE METTEUR EN SCÈNE
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
LOOKING FOR ALFRED
Johan Grimonprez"I thought I was safe until you guys came along, digging up all those other Hitchcock lookalikes. Now we will have to find ways of disposing of them." Ron Burrage, professional Hitchcock look-alike...
EXPRMNTL
Brecht Debackere - Steven DhoedtKnokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second 'World Festival of Film and the Arts' in 1949, organized in part by the royal cinematheque of Belgium...
Boulevard d'Ypres / Ieperlaan, Sarah Vanagt, 2010 © the artist & producer
BOULEVARD D'YPRES / IEPERLAAN
Sarah VanagtThe Boulevard d’Ypres in Brussels, with its large and colourful Mediterranean stores, offers glimpses of the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights. Urban development is now driving out these shops selling couscous, dates and olives. It is this turning point in the history of her own street that Vanagt uses as a starting point for a ’microhistorical experiment’...
