COLLECTION

LE JOUR DE GLOIRE EST ARRIVÉ

Sven Augustijnen
In flashing black and white letters and backgrounds, the words from the sentence ‘Le jour de gloire est arrivé’ are flung upon the screen at various speeds. The viewer has to be careful not to be hypnotized by the message....

DAS HAUS

Aglaia Konrad
Das Haus is a new work that deepens the exploration of sculptural architecture that Aglaia Konrad conducted with the series of 16mm films Concrete and Samples...

Action cocktail, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ACTION COCKTAIL

Angel Vergara
Images from the mass media and Vergara’s own exterior shots are combined with video-recordings of a Brussels performance in which Angel Vergara asked everyone walking past to sign his CV in Marie-Puck Broodthaers’s Gallery des Beaux-Arts (where a Christian Boltanski exhibition was being held) and the gallery of Xavier Hufkens (a Julião Sarmento exhibition)...

Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer

ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM

Laurent Van Lancker
In 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...

BATTLES

Isabelle Tollenaere
Is a war ever truly over? Battles reveals a past that has not passed, by patiently observing the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past...

RON BURRAGE HITCHCOCK DOUBLE

Johan Grimonprez
‘Ron Burrage Hitchcock Double’ is an extract of a larger project of Johan Grimonprez about Hitchcock doubles. It shows the 'making of': the artist is visible throughout the tape, giving instructions, dialoguing with his 'model', Ron Burrage...

IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES (PART IV): WARFARE / A CASE FOR CONTEXT

Jayce Salloum
In the Absence of Heroes: Warfare/A Case for Context was part of a continuing series of works investigating social manifestations filling the gaps in our lives through media/corporate and government propagated images and idea(l)s. The videotapes present contextualized concepts/fragments of personal/emotional traumatic experiences and conflict...

TRANSCITY

Pascal Baes
Recorded in the frame of Netdays Wallonie-Bruxelles 2002, Transcity (2003) is an experimental silent video that combines repeated observations of passers-by and several recordings of the performances by Baes’ life companion Aï Suzuki...

DIE LORELEY

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In this computer-animation, Van Kerckhoven links together portrait paintings she made between 1987 and 1990 of 54 people that visited her unexpectedly. These people are acquaintances, friends and relatives. She linked each person chronologically to some words of the poem ‘Die Loreley’ of Heinrich Heine (1797- 1856)...

FORMER EAST / FORMER WEST

Shelly Silver
"Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, Former East/Former West is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience...