COLLECTION

A Message from Space in my Backyard, 2008-2009, Krassimir Terizev © the artist

A MESSAGE FROM SPACE IN MY BACKYARD

Krassimir Terziev
"It is far from rational from the perspective of single human life to imagine that a piece of space shuttle, after being launched some 20 years ago, would hit a woman in her backyard in California, or a piece of derelict Russian satellite, after orbiting the earth for a several decades, would reach its final destination in the desert of Australia in front of local shepherds...

I LOVE YOU, MY WORLD

Jan Vromman
For this film, Jan Vromman found his inspiration in the construction works at the Atomium, Belgium’s national monument. In 2005, the Belgian government renovated the coating of the balls. Jan Vromman recognised the globe of the earth in one of the stripped balls...

JACK THE DRIPPER (PSYCHOPAINTER)

Pascal Bernier
Three short video sketches made with minimal means and based on samples from various media (mainly the internet and pop music), creating a form of ‘garage- video’, with no other ambition, according to Bernier himself, than the generation of specific emotions which might also pop up when listening to loud rock music or watching pornographic films...

L'OMBRELLE EN PAPIER [CONFÉRENCE VIDÉO]

Jacques Louis Nyst
Conference grouping the different sequences: ’Le paysage’, ’Le voyage de Christophe Colomb’, ’Le tombeau des nains’, ’La mort d’une poule’, ’Le Robot’, ’Revolver’ and ’L’ombrelle descendant un escabeau’. The paper sunshade approaches Spring, it is growing amongst the crocuses...

LA FEMME AU SANG CANNIBALE

Eddy Luyckx
"The Woman with Cannibal Blood" appears to be the slow unfolding of a story. A very simple story of four successive generations, from the author’s grandfather to his son. A succession disrupted by the director’s departure and by his desire to live a different life. A story whose end we won’t know : Jonas is five years old, with his whole life before him...

SAY HELLO TO PEACE AND TRANQUILITY

Martin Wittwer - Dagmar Keller
In ‘Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility’, we find ourselves in a projected world of deserted suburbia. Terrace town homes slowly slide by, offering an endless panorama of wide sidewalks, tidy front gardens, latched facades and gabled houses. The absence of people appears completely normal; even the little lap dog that motionlessly slides into view does not seem that out of place...

A STRANGE NEW BEAUTY

Shelly Silver
A disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptively calm of this suburban landscape...

1937

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

"LIFE ON THE EDGE" RADIO LINE

Beatrijs Albers
In 1999 and 2000 Beatrijs Albers travels to the arid American desert on the borders of California, Nevada and Arizona. There she looks for the ways in which man draws out space for himself and takes political, architectural and mental ownership. The title refers to the name of an American local religious radiostation...

SLEEPLESS NIGHT

Koen Theys - Dirk Paesmans
The video was made during a study tour with the school where Koen Theys and Dirk Paesmans were studying. During the night, they went with a 1000 Watt spot to the dormitory of their fellow students, and filmed their reactions to the light. Afterwards these images were put in relation with a burning cross....