COLLECTION

CLEJANI STORIES

Marta Bergman
Since the recent demise of violinist Nicolae Neacsu, one of the star musicians of the Taraf de Haïdouks, the atmosphere in Clejani, a Southern gipsy village in Romania, is drenched in nostalgia. As if Neacsu dragged with him the last remains of a just about bearable world into the hereafter...

S.O.L.

Robert Suermondt
The camera zooms in on the moving figures behind the closing titles of the film ‘Silence of The Lambs’ (1991, Jonathan Demme). The camera movements, screening the people and the space behind the titles, open up a new fictional space....

LA VIE SEXUELLE DES BELGES 1950-1978

Jan Bucquoy
Jan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels...

SEQUENZA

Manon de Boer - George van Dam
sequenza is an experimental film project by Manon de Boer and George Van Dam based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin by Luciano Berio....

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 14 : COBOY ET INDIEN FONT DU CAMPING

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
As the title says, Cowboy and Indian go out camping. They find the perfect spot on top of a hill. They put up the tent, and install their mattresses and barbecue, but then Cowboy does something really stupid: his gun accidentally goes off and he shoots a hole in his air mattress. The two then decide to gather wood and go hunting...

The Greenhouse Effect, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

Peter Finnemore
The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions: this results in an elevation of the average surface temperature. Closed inside a greenhouse, Finnemore's troops dance on the rhythm of a lounge score and re-radiate an uncontrollable delight....

VALERIO ADAMI, HOTEL CHELSEA BATHROOM

Jef Cornelis
Cornelis created this documentary about the Italian painter Valerio Adam for television, for the series 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' ('Public Heritage')...

FLABBY CAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance in which Monsieur Delmotte stands in a prairie and lifts a cat two times by its scruff. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

HÉLÈNE

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
In economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...