COLLECTION

HEIMAT

Sam Peeters
Right-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles.In this unscripted documentary, Sam Peeters portrays an ironic caricature of life in the Flemish suburbs, which reflects the current European zeitgeist....

DOUBLE URBAN DANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...

VEGETATIVE STATES: AN ATTEMPT TO INSTIL AND MEASURE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN HOUSEHOLD PLANTS

Steve Reinke - John Marriott
Seductive and eerie, ’Vegetative States’ observes an experiment in which a lush, potted Peace Lily is wired to a polygraph (lie detector) device and is then shown hypnotic art videos, while a technician monitors its responses. This attempt to influence and measure perception quickly morphs into a genre blurring deconstruction of point of view...

MOSAÏC HEREDITY

Emilio López-Menchero
In Mosaïc Heredity, Emilio López-Menchero talks into the fix camera and tells about himself, his situation and origins as if he is standing in front of an unemployment office agent or a police interrogation. Between fiction and reality, the short video is characterized by the insertion of black frames and the use of the mosaic mode of the camera...

PROPS FOR DRAMA: PLOT HOLE

Sarah & Charles
'A plot hole is a gap or inconsistency in the storyline that contradicts or breaks the originally set narrative logic'. In an abstract visual set-up of doors, walls and windows, we watch an actor change into two different characters while a voiceover coordinates his movements. The front- and backstage of the archetypal stage setting have been put up alongside each other...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LE PRÉSENTATEUR DE 20 CLIPS [20 X 30'']

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman - Joëlle de La Casinière
A newscaster announces each of the different video clips of the series ’Video à la chaîne’ separately....

CELEBRATION (BUENOS AIRES)

Hans Op de Beeck
The video Celebration (Buenos Aires) was made at the invitation of the MACBA (Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires). Op de Beeck went about making this video in more or less the same way he had for his earlier Celebration video (2008), working together closely with a family of migrants from a notorious, crowded slum area in the middle of town...

DANCE OF THE CIGARETTE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...

PAOLO UCELLO LA BATAILLE DE SAN ROMANO, SUITE ET FIN…

André Romus
As the title suggests, this video revolves around the painting ’The battle of San Romano’ by Paolo Uccello. Romus made his own interpretation of this famous work. The video starts with the image of a hairdresser, cutting the hair of an Asian woman. A young man in a motorbike costume is looking at her...