COLLECTION

THE CONTAINERTAPES

Els Dietvorst
In the summer of 2001 the artists organisation NICC placed a container on the Fontainas square in the heart of Brussels. For one week Els Dietvorst used the container for auditions. 200 people auditioned in five days! This video is a report of three hours of these auditions...

POEME-PARTITION X

Bernard Heidsieck
"Poème-Partition X" was created by Bernard Heidsieck during 1960 and recorded in October the same year. A few excerpts of the 1st and 4th movements were performed on November 22nd, 1960 at the Quatre Saisons Gallery in Paris, during the Festival of Avant-Garde Art...

IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST (HOMMAGE À YVES SOMVILLE)

Jacques Lennep
In the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his « Musée de l’homme», a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...

PAPILLON D'AMOUR

Nicolas Provost
Papillon d’amour is based on key scenes from Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashômon [1950], which are modified by a simple intervention: the insertion of a vertical axis of reflection through the image center. This central axis defines the focus of agency and, at the same time, the sphere of maximum turbulence on the image plane...

THE BRIDGE (2)

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte hangs over a bridge near a canal and ‘goes to the toilet’. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

THE CORRIDOR

Sarah Vanagt
For 5 days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South-England. From home to home, from room to room. Each time the donkey was welcomed warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter...

FANFARE, CALME ET VOLUPTÉ

Koen Theys
Musicians and majorettes, seemingly dressed up for a public performance, are sound asleep. They have their brass instruments with them, but their drowsiness prevents them from playing. Time is suspended in this ’tableau vivant’ and the tiniest gesture of one of the sleeping majorettes becomes an event, creating a tension in the image that contrasts with its picturesque composition...

STEP BY STEP

Claude Cattelain
Cattelain raises on his own a timber to use it as a staircase....

GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (3): "ALS JULLIE VRIENDELIJK BUITENGAAN DAN IS DAT BIJ ONS OOK OVER"

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 18/03/1975...

LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 1: DAS RHEINGOLD

Frank Theys - Koen Theys
This is the first part of the diptych Lied van mijn Land (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. In ’Der Ring der  Nibelungen’, an interpretation of a germanic mythological epic, the composer associates power with the possession of gold...