COLLECTION

I HATE THIS TOWN

Nicolas Provost
"Softcore images on hardcore rhythms". This video consists of a collage of extravagant character action close-ups in porn films. Their suggestive movements were repetitively edited onto the rhythms of electronic music, resulting in a slapstick situation....

DE ZANGER DEMODOKOS

Jan Vromman
'De zanger Demodokos' returns to the basics of our culture. In a short meditation about the role of text and music, of seeing and blindness, Jan Vromman evokes the blind singer from Homer - the darling of the muses. In this touching short film the blind Tcha Limberger sings the Homer's text, and plays Kris Defoort's music on clarinet. "The worst crime man commits is against himself...

BESTE STEVE

Herman Asselberghs
In Beste Steve ('Dear Steve'), a man is smoothly dismantling a brand new MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, in a voice-over, a letter is read, addressed to Steve Jobs and signed by the artist. Beste Steve reveals the irreducible materiality of a tool that symbolises so-called immaterial labour...

CITYGARDEN

Ruben Bellinkx
The film "Citygarden" is a video registration of a permanent installation in the city garden in Ghent, Belgium. At a certain spot in this city garden the earth is slowly splitting open and closing. Air cushion, two electronic controled ventils, air compressor....

LA DERNIÈRE (S)CÈNE OU L’ÉVANGILE SELON SAINT BORIS

Boris Lehman
A dialogue based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of themselves moviemakers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union. Judas is played by Claudio Pazienza and Christ by Lehman himself...

CHRISTO

Jef Cornelis
A portrait of the artist Christo, on the occasion of his passage in Antwerp, where he wrapped up the interior of the gallery The Wide White Space. A short introduction outlines the evolution of his work and his career, focusing on his trademark – wrapping as an art form...

VIDÉO HEBDO 56

Claude Cattelain
Two different points of view on the same subject in order to get things clear end up to make them more confused....

LOOKING DOWN

Bernard Gigounon
A ship, filmed from above, is slowly moving through the image: the bow, the deck, and the metal cover plates. As soon as the camera arrives at the load, however, consisting of sand and stones, something weird happens: the load turns into a Martian landscape, it seems as if the camera is transforming into a satellite, exploring some barren planet...

LES 3 MARIE

Charley Case
A painting on which a woman is depicted breastfeeding a child. The image refers to the well known iconographical pose of the Holy Mary holding Jesus. The gently moving image of a real woman breastfeeding her child appears in this painting, as a second layer. Slowly it slides to the foreground. The second painting is that of Mary as a young girl...

WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO

Elizabeth LeCompte
‘White Homeland Commando’ was written for the Wooster Group by associate Michael Kirby. It takes the familiar terrain of network action drama but tilts its playing field...