COLLECTION

JOSUÉ PINSON, OPUS MINUS 1

Jacques Lennep
A masked Lennep makes a collage with found objects....

PUB ESQUIMO

Hänzel & Gretzel
Pub Esquimo is a short pastiche that manipulates the fix image of a drawing of an eskimo girl who winks at us with colours and scratches. On top of this visual and sound manipulations, Hänzel & Gretzel addresses a special request, with an explicit and erotic inter-titles, to the eskimo girl that underlines her sensual appearance....

FIREBALL

Steve Reinke
"Soon a fireball will descend upon the city, destroying everything. I will be one of the ones that will burn the longest and brightest"....

appendix ii: clouds, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2001 © the artist & producer

APPENDIX II: CLOUDS

Jayce Salloum
appendix ii: clouds is a part of the ongoing multi-channel video installation untitled which, since 1999, Jayce Salloum elaborates focusing on notions such as borders, nationalisms, movements and subjectivity. This 15-minutes video shows an inventory of images of clouds, mostly recorded from an airplane, and is meant to be shown on monitor only in exhibition context....

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...

HOMMAGE À … IV

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. Everything is centred on the concept of self-observation and an exploration of the body. Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...

JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL

John Heymans - Peter Scholten
Starting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...

I FEEL COLD TODAY

Patrick Bernatchez
Beginning with a travelling shot in the ascending elevator, I Feel Cold Today depicts a deserted office space slowly filling up with snow that appears to be blowing in through an open window....

DANAË

Koen Theys
Throughout the video, we see a collage of amateur footage of anonymous women 'twerking'. Koen Theys found the material in abundance on the internet. This contemporary phenomenon seems to indicate these women are only able to make contact with the outside world via their webcam. Theys connects this seclusion with the Greek myth of Danaë a recurring subject in the course of painting history...

POWER CUT

Sarah Vanagt
Three boys, Tonton (15), Dodo (14) and Daniel (12), took a series of photos and made short videos during the elections in Goma, Eastern Congo. With the assistance of the Congolese filmmaker brothers Petna and Sekombi Katondolo, the children wandered the streets of Goma with cameras they had been sent from Brussels...