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....

Bruxelles-Antwerpen, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

BRUXELLES-ANTWERPEN

Angel Vergara
From the Linkebeek station to Antwerp in slightly more than twenty seconds. Out of the train window, Vergara filmed the landscape as it passed him. Afterwards, he accelerated the movie’s tempo to such extent that the journey is rendered barely recognisable. What is left is a smear, an impression of a journey...

PIEDS À L'ENVERS

Michel François
In Pieds à l'Envers, the camera is turned upside down and rotates around and around the artist's feet. The sound of the footsteps of the artist gives a sort of understanding of his action, but the focus is on his feet while the background keeps on moving in a continuous circle. Together with the reverse point of view, the video brings to lose the viewer's balance in a spiral shaking image....

VIDÉOS HEBDOS (1 À 65)

Claude Cattelain
Between January 2009 and March 2010 Claude Cattelain made 65 videos, one each week!...

UNCERTAIN MENTAL IDENTY(IES)

Messieurs Delmotte
In this compilation of short works, the dandy Messieurs Delmotte delivers a mild critique on the art world by nodding to famous paintings and performances / actions of the twentieth century. At the same time, he also slashes and destroys unknown paintings such as a shoddy still life of flowers...

COMMENT FILMER MOLENBEEK?

Johan Grimonprez - Franciska Lambrechts
The result of a workshop for which Franciska Lambrechts supplied a varied company of individuals and some basic equipment: a super-8 camera with 3 B/W films. What we see is a creative montage wherein the workshop and the discussed topics itself are at the core....

DANSE (BEAUBOURG EVENT 02)

Luc Ferrari
One-sided release. "'Dance' was part of a sound/visual installation called 'Labyrinthe De Violence'...

A.U.B. / S.V.P.

Emilio López-Menchero
In his early work a.u.b. / s.v.p., Emilio López-Menchero positioned the camera next to the passport control gates at Brussels National Airport. The video is an observation of the flow of people through the gates and their similar, or better said almost identical, behaviours when they face the authorities who mechanically checks the documents and let them go further...

RE-PAIN

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Colors, shapes and numbers slowly change, transform, according to a fixed pattern. While the sound gets slower and slower, more abstract. The discrepancy between the two movements, the movement of the images and the movement of the sound, creates tranquility and detachment. The experience is an anti-pole of negativeness in melancholy...

ZONDER TITEL

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter - Stefaan Vercammen
Two boys are sitting at a bar, which is run by another young boy. After the bartender leaves the scene, the two boys start a discussion. The bartender returns, bringing with him a strange creature wearing a black dress that also covers its face. In a gym the three boys begin throwing white balls at the creature...