COLLECTION

PAUL JOOSTENS

Jef Cornelis
A report on the artist Paul Joostens, his drawings and paintings and his relationship with his friend Raoul Thiriard. Images of Dadaist collages, constructions and figurative painting in the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp....

L’ARTERIOSCLEROSI DEL NONNO

Claudio Pazienza
A visual score shot in image by image format with a single Super 8 reel, the film is an evocation of the arteriosclerosis of the author’s grandfather, the decay of a loved one....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - CLIP/ORDINATEUR

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
This short video starts with images from a self-made computer clip. The male voice-over tries to sell the video clip kit to the viewers....

PHILIPPE, CARRÉ BLANC… CARRÉ NOIR

Jean-Claude Riga
‘Philippe, carré blanc… Carré noir’ is built along the thin line that separates reality from fiction; documentary from drama. Philippe, who also appears in L’Oeil et la Cage, is our guide in this descent into the world of drugs in Belgium at the beginning of the 1980’s, a subject Riga treats with extreme crudity and straightforwardness...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: SCOOP

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
A local grocer sees a superstar entering his store to buy some things. The background consists of black-and-white images of store shelves. A woman is singing next to seemingly random pictures pasted on the screen....

MYSTIC CHILD

André Colinet
Made in homage to Stan Brakhage, an influential American experimental filmmaker who died on the cusp of the digital age. Brakhage made "The Wold Shadow", a visionary visual approach, which inspires "Mystic Child". His work was also about art history: realism, figuration, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism and concept...

Celebration, Hans Op de Beeck, 2008. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

CELEBRATION

Hans Op de Beeck
In harsh desert surroundings, with rocks and cactuses in the background, a wedding or some kind of celebration is taking place. It is blisteringly hot. The camera is mounted on a tripod.The scene is a tableau vivant: a living painting in which neither the view nor the picture frame changes...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS

Steve Reinke
Sometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....

COLOURS

Hans Op de Beeck
‘Colours’ shows a series of portraits in a loop. The first images are static, and the shots are as elaborate as paintings. Detailed colour and frame compositions reinforce the ties with painting. But then there is movement, the blinking of an eye, and the immobility that follows it gets a whole new meaning....

IJSBREKER 22: CULTUURMANAGEMENT

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens
Discussion on how culture is managed and the relationship between this question and sponsorship...