COLLECTION

LET'S TRY TO FIND OUT WHAT GOES ON IN THE MALE BARRACKS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Symbolism is the bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. The recordings for this movie started during summer 2004 in Antwerp, in AMVK’s studio in Belgium. There she filmed the Symbolist, personified by painter-fortune teller Louis Wuytack, and the romantic, personified by musician Mauro Pawlowski...

HABITER LES FISSURES

Miléna Desse
In Brussels, a former factory bears witness to an intense and now bygone industrial era. Today, it is home to spontaneous flora that has found its way into the cracks in the bricks and concrete, as well as to the people who live there and create alternatives to what this city has to offer...

L'HOMME QUI TOURNE EN ROND

Jacques Lennep
Lennep walks in a circle in the snow, holding a flower pot in his hand. Time and again he repeats the circular motion....

POINT AND SHOOT

Esther Johnson
A short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...

ROSAS DANST ROSAS

Thierry De Mey
Thierry De Mey filmed Rosas danst Rosas in the former technical school of architect Henry Van de Velde in Leuven. The film version is much shorter than the show itself. In his film Thierry De Mey opts for a heavily "inter-cut" version in which, apart from the cast of four dancers from 1995 and 1996, he also has all the other performers from the long history of the show dance along...

THE BIG TIRE

Messieurs Delmotte
A man in a wheelchair is hiding behind a huge tire of a tractor. Second part of a series of sequences that are the result of a meeting between Messieurs Delmotte and artists with a mental disability. It leads to unexpected situations and poetic performances. Messieurs Delmotte made this performance and video project during an artistic residency at CEC La Hesse (Vielsalm in Belgium)...

MY HOME IS ON THE OTHER SIDE

Yun Tien
I’m in contact with my family through the screen of my computer, even tough we are on opposite sides of the globe we share a moment together. Where is home? Here or there? I interview other people with a similar background. We talk about the reasons we left our homeland to seek a new life in Belgium. What will happen if I stay in Belgium? Will it become a new ‘home’? ...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TAPISSERIE

Jacques Lennep
The camera shows a fixed shot of a banal wallpaper with a flower-print. Offscreen somebody shouts 'Vive la peinture!'....

IJSBREKER 01: PANAMARENKO

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The first Ijsbreker (’Icebreaker’) on water: a transmission, created before the eyes of the viewer, aspiring to tear down the high walls around the art world, breaking through the ready-made and brushed up ways of television at the same time. This edition evolves around the artist Panamarenko, speaking from his living laboratory in Antwerp...

IJSBREKER 20: COMPUTERKUNST

Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys - Jef Cornelis
An episode of ’Ijsbreker’ on the work of artists who involve electronic machines in their graphic or musical work. In the first location, the Groningen museum, the artist Struycken talks about his work. In Ghent Peter Beyls and Rudi Blondia do the exact same thing...