COLLECTION

VIDÉO HEBDO 28

Claude Cattelain
A candle is lighted up and switched off....

MARIAGE

Caroline Cereghetti
In Mariage, Caroline Cereghetti follows an entire family during a wedding. The whole family is ready for the major event, they wait for the future bride, then, they go to the ceremony, followed by the dinner and the party. This silent video is a study of gestures, the attitudes, and the spaces that make out the human condition, the hierarchical relations within a family...

BAREFOOT BIRTHDAY ON UNBREAKABLE GLASS

Rebecca Jane Arthur - Azam Masoumzadeh
In Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes...

JACQUES CHARLIER

Jef Cornelis
The Belgian artist Jacques Charlier (°1939) worked for several years at the Provincial Technical Service (STP) in Liège. This experience influenced his artistic practice as he started to decontextualize STP photographs and documents – for example of images of the town, roads, drain pipes and water supply schemes - and presented them in different exhibition projects...

MADONNA WITH CHILD

Nicolas Provost
A very personal, fairly explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ....

TOMBEAU POUR M.B.

Jacques Lennep
A bone in the Belgian tricolour is lying at the foot of a statue. Lennep takes it and erases the three colours. He then buries the bone in a field. The work alludes to the burial of Marcel Broodthaers. ...

Palais d'Egmont. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

PALAIS D'EGMONT. PEINTURE EN 1 ACTE ET 12 TABLEAUX

Angel Vergara
As in the works ’La belle Rosine. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux’ and ’L’arbre. Peinture en 1 acte et 7 tableaux’, a series of paintings forms the basis of this film. In this triptych of ultra-short works the artist applies a super-fast montage – introductions and end credits take longer than the actual work. In ’Palais d’Egmont...

CONCRETE & SAMPLES I: WOTRUBA WIEN

Aglaia Konrad
Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...

LES BALTUS AU CIRQUE

Stéphane Aubier
The Baltus Family - father, mother and two sons - leaves in a nice villa in the countryside. Suddenly, a circus settles close by, so they decide to go there. They enjoy the show, but it is too long. They want to leave but the evil clowns - the voice is provided by Benoît Poelvoorde - refuses to let them go and keeps them busy with his continuous tricks...

MARILYN MONROE

Daniel Weinberger - Raoul Van den Boom
A man, wearing big glasses and a costume, is standing still in front of the camera. On the background three spotlights are shining. The soundtrack consists of a person breathing heavily. Suddenly the man starts taking off his clothes and replacing them by a glittering tank top. He puts leaves and feathers in his ears and contact lenses in his eyes. Then the man starts putting on make up...