COLLECTION

MY RECTUM IS NOT A GRAVE (NOTES TO A FILM INDUSTRY IN CRISIS)

Steve Reinke
Using footage shot in 1938 and 1939 by Ivan Besse, who owned a movie theatre in Britton, South Dakota and used local portraits in a kind of local news-reel, Reinke builds a strange reverie, sometimes speaking as Besse, sometimes as St. Paul, with reference to Frank O’Hara, Odetta and Dusty Springfield....

IJSBREKER 13: CULTURELE CENTRA (KLEINE)

Jackie Claeys - Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
Probably culture is something which has always been around. But apart from the culture which is just there, there is distributed culture as well. Implicitly this means that it gets through to big cities before anywhere else...

DOHA

Pauline Julier
The film Doha (2017–2019) runs without any images. In short and concise sentences, Julier recounts a personal experience. The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull affected air traffic worldwide, and the artist got stranded in Doha. At the airport hotel, an excerpt of Beethoven’s piano piece For Elise plays on repeat...

I LOVE RÜCKBAU

Aglaia Konrad
In 2015, Aglaia Konrad filmed the demolition of the iconic headquarters of BNP Paribas Fortis bank on Warandeberg in the heart of Brussels. In a short space of time, demolition machines dismantled the modernist building from the 1970s, designed by (interior) architects Hugo Van Kuyck, Jules Wabbes, and Christophe Gevers...

CASCADE

Bernard Gigounon
An image of 25 seconds from a river is printed, piled on top of each other and accelerated filmed again. The magic of cinema does the rest....

BUSTUTAI

Gert Verhoeven
In 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented ’The Blob’. This video is an account of the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in the United States. The style is similar to a documentary, but it is extremely fragmented for lack of a storyline or any clarification...

MEDIASTUDIEN (NACH HEINRICH HOFFMANN)

Koen Theys
In 1927 (years before he came to power in Germany), Adolf Hitler posed in a studio for his private photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The pictures they made were used to study the dramatic effects of certain gestures, and how to use them during Hitler’s public apparitions. Hitler was one of the first (if not the first) politician(s) who introduced the idea of media-training...

Familia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

FAMILIA

Angel Vergara
Two families are presented. They are sitting together at the table and looking at photo albums. With a brush, Vergara follows their contours and movements...

L'AGE D'OR NR. 2

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
This animation begins with a yellow-and-blue star, that looks like the Star of David. In the center of the star there’s a drawing of a man with his hands and feet tied up. The star is turning around, and black and white circles appear. A distorted voice is talking about absurdity, structure and limits. Two men are now in the center of the star, still with their hands and feet bound together...

A BROKEN RULE

Vincent Meessen
‘A Broken Rule’ is based on a performance realized by Meessen with collaborators in Burkina Faso. The video portrays African men taking turns carrying luminous text plates – often the only source of light in the image – through a nocturnal city...