COLLECTION

AND THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since the immemorial the Papuans have perceived the world of the rich Westerners as a sort of heaven. In their encounters both Papuans and Westerners have focused upon obtaining the riches of the other culture...

FACE OF THE EARTH

Vito Acconci
The face of the artist is filmed in extreme close-up, from his chin to the top of his head. Filling the screen, Acconci’s head comprises the theatre for a crumbly narrative about a personal past. His actions and words serve as a metaphor for the mythical American landscape; his personal memories likewise tell of a collective drama – the early days of recent American history...

SUPER-SUPERPOSITION

Filip Francis
Two men are sitting in a film studio. On the background the viewer hears the sound of opera music. Close-ups of the men’s faces reappear on the TV monitors at the bottom of the screen. The same concept is repeated, but now the men are standing up and moving their arms....

WHITE BALL

Claude Cattelain
Impulsive video sequences, not without a sense of humour, at times evoking an actual spatial escapism or on other occasions recording coincidental or purposeful emotional turning points. ‘White Ball’ shows a passage of one state of mind to another through direct amazement. No time to think or to lament. In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile...

POUR OLIVIER

Claude Cattelain
A continuation of short sequence videos that have the ‘fall’ and its consequences as a main theme. These experiences, sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, are most often achieved from unsteady wood-made armatures. Some of those are organized around the human body, making up different types of heavy and fragile exoskeletons. The falls are either accidental or voluntary....

UNE JOURNÉE AVEC MADAME AKAROVA

Ana Torfs - Jurgen Persijn
For this video work, made in 1989, during their studies at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels, Jurgen Persijn and Ana Torfs worked together for the first time. As they were assigned to make a “video portrait” of someone, they chose Akarova, whose exhibition they had seen in 1988 in les Archives d’Architecture Moderne in Brussels...

COMME D'HABITUDE. UNE PIÈCE À ENGAGER

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...

FABRIQUES

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Fabriques focuses on the ornamental elements which in recent years have proliferated on the private homes of the new residential districts around Msaken, patent signs of economic success and social prestige in a region marked by a high emigration towards Europe. These decorative elements are both the revealing signs of international mobility and its effects on the local townscape...

VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE

Jan Vromman
For several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....

FILMER LE BAS DES MURS AU COURS D'UNE LONGUE PROMENADE URBAINE

Jacques Lizène
Lizène intended to film the base of the wall along a very long urban promenade, a project which would never be realized except for this trial shot on 8mm. The original scheme was, according to Lizène “almost very good, would have been very long and very boring”....