COLLECTION

ORIENT PALACE (COLLECTION)

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Orient Palace (Collection) was the initial production of the ongoing body of works Towards a history of the vanishing present, which have been developed in Tunisia since February 2008. It intended to preliminary thematize issues that have been further addressed in following works...

ENDOGENE DEPRESSION

Wolf Vostell
Vostell metamorphoses the information and transforms events that were broadcast on television in a linear manner using coded messages imparted by various means of communication....

THE STEWARTS HAVE A PARTY

Hans Op de Beeck
The Stewarts are a carefully cast fictitious family. The various members appear and disappear in an empty white room, like life-sized marionettes dressed in white. As is customary in the sub-genre of marionette theatre, they are manipulated by black-clothed puppeteers who are part of the set entourage: production assistants, a makeup girl and a hair stylist...

TABOURETS

Claude Cattelain
In the video ‘Tabourets’, recorded in stop-motion, Cattelain undertakes several attempts to build a globelike shape with straight, edgy stools. In his work Claude Cattelain tries to catch the essence of the volatile. His video miniatures are flashes of amazement and fragility, staged at times, or noticed in passing...

SUICIDE

Shelly Silver
"suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living...

PLUS KERN (GENT)

Jef Cornelis

DATURA SADHU

Charley Case
A Hindu man is making a skull spin round on a stick. This macabre scene reveals Datura Sadhu as an in-your-face memento mori....

OJO GUAREÑA

Edurne Rubio
In the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...

APPUNTI DEL PASSAGGIO

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Appunti del passaggio reconstructs forgotten histories of migrants who moved from Italy to Switzerland in the 1960s. Their experiences were characterised by being utilised exclusively as low skilled labour and by being subjected to widespread discrimination and xenophobia...

HET GEEL VAN GENT

Jos De Gruyter - Harald Thys
In this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...