COLLECTION

NOT TORN (ASUNDER FROM THE VERY START)

Steve Reinke
For Reinke video does not place itself in the lineage history / documentary, but in that of dream / art. The video heads off with ghostly, almost surreal archival footage of a dance recital from the Marial Mosher studio, at the Capitol Theatre in Halifax, 1939, to subsequently explore the antagonistic relation between conscience and unconsciousness...

THAT'S THE WAY IT IS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte further explores his fascination for the hidden fantasies of the human body, with the intention of exposing it completely. In ’That’s the way it is’ parts of the body keep coming into focus, deprived of their context, conspicuously in the foreground of city views....

PULL OVER

Michel François
A person pulling on a sweater. The sweater adopts the contours of the face beneath it without making that face fully recognisable. This gesture describes a spontaneous amalgam of interrelated postures, insights and associations....

Viol, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

VIOL

Angel Vergara
Two folded hands are pushing on a womans face which itself is covered by long hair. This scene is as intimate as uncomfortable to watch or witness...

CLOSED DISTRICT

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
The material for ’Closed District’ was recorded in 1996 in the South-Sudanese village of Mankien where Vandeweerd filmed the war, which has lasted for thirty years in this area. Because of the despair and disillusion there, it took him almost ten years to edit the images into a documentary, which is not merely about the war in Sudan, but about wars in general...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 15 : DÉJEUNER SUR L'HERBE

Vincent Patar - Stéphane Aubier
Horse, Indian, Cowboy, farmer Steven and Jeanine are having a barbecue. Horse goes to fetch some extra wood and stumbles over a strange object. They dig up the thing, which turns out to be a tour bus that drove people around at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico...

L'HOLOCAUST N'EST QU'UN DETAIL DANS L'HISTOIRE

Sven Augustijnen
Augustijnen uses the same technique as in his video ‘Le Coran, ça je ne connais pas’. In flashing black and white letters and backgrounds, the words from the sentence ‘L’Holocaust n’est qu’un detail dans l’Histoire’ are flung upon the screen at various speeds. The viewer has to be careful not to be brainwashed by this revisionist message....

CASA

Michel François
‘CASA’ is an extensive collage of film fragments, capturing numerous subjects and sensations. The artist makes an appeal to the five senses and the four elements. Movement is also very central in ‘CASA’. It starts with waves overflowing a wall. The element water. A close-up of elbows rubbing a rough surface. Two hands are grabbing a face covered in clay. Touch...

SLOW OBJECT 05

Edith Dekyndt
An object slowly goes up and down against a neutral background. Is it an air bubble in a transparent liquid? Or a balloon floating in the greyish-white sky? Edith Dekyndt does not disclose what the filmed object actually is. Like all other videos by Dekyndt, this short work causes us to become fascinated by the small, the unspeakable, the almost intangible...

HIGH TIDE

Lukas Marxt
High Tide hypnotically fixes its gaze on a landscape that’s either prehuman or postapocalyptic, but definitely a timeless arrangement in shades of gray — Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Stiff, dry and dully gleaming like damp tar, they tear a hole between the dark, gloomy sea and the grayish sky...