COLLECTION

SUDEUROPA

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Sudeuropa examines the ways in which European and Italian immigration policies materialise on location by reconfiguring the space, time and the daily life of the Italian island Lampedusa...

À MA D'AZIL

Thomas Israël - Charley Case
The Grotto of Mas-d'Azil is a crossed cavern dug by the river Arize in the French Pyrenees. During the prehistoric and different historic eras, it was inhabited. Furthermore, it's the only European grotto which is accessible by car and the route allowed to discover its first inhabitants such as mammoths, bears and rhinos...

DOM SVOBODE

Sašo Podgoršek
For this medium long video the Slovenian choreographer Iztok Kovac worked together closely with the artist Sašo Podgoršek. The title refers to artistic freedom, to an openness that helps to escape the everyday and banal. In the first scenes we see of group of seven performers dancing amidst a rock formation...

THE IDEAL CITY (TWO BOATS)

Katleen Vermeir - Ronny Heiremans
Since 2001 Kathleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans have been working on a series of ‘Tableaux Vivants’, inspired on paintings, photos or even older images. In the tradition of classical as well as contemporary art the universal aspects of different human attitudes and architectural models are revealed...

THE ABSTRACT ISN'T SEXUALLY STIMULATING

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In ’The abstract isn’t sexually stimulating’ , Van Kerckhoven gives a highly personal appearance to the battle between Eros and Thanatos.Between inside and outside, between good and evil thoughts, a game is played with the body and its thoughts through the animation of a drawing which resulted from her sub-consciousness. "Animation of a drawing from my subconscious...

Evolution Revolution, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

EVOLUTION REVOLUTION

Peter Finnemore
The camera wonders around a forest looking for something. First we see a fire, then we hear footsteps, finally we track down a guerilla, but surprisingly it's a monkey in camouflage battle dress!...

HOMMAGE À … II

Lili Dujourie
The five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à .....

ZOLANG ER SCHEEPSBOUWERS ZINGEN

Jan Vromman
The decline of the shipbuilding industry induced director Vromman to tell the story of the Boelwerf, Belgium’s last active shipyard. At the same time, this particular story runs parallel to a part of the general social-economic history: it tells the tale of belief in unlimited expansion turned into uncertainty and social uprising...

Shelly Silver, How We Are, 1981 © the artist

HOW WE ARE

Shelly Silver

DONKEY SHOT

Stefan Bohnenberger
‘Donkey Shot’ was filmed with Super 8 on the way from Brussels to Marrakech. Freely inspired on Cervantes’ Don Quixote the story follows the adventures and mishaps of the infamous knight in a granular, playful and almost surreal style, through the eyes of his faithful donkey...