COLLECTION

INCIDENT. EINE SKIZZE

Andreas Brehmer
Starting point of ’Incident. Eine Skizze’ are fragments of text, sound and image, all related to one another. Thus the length of the text determines the frequence of the images (details of one and the same picture), their colour, as well as text and sound, which, in turn interrupts the rhythm of text and image by its volume....

PORTRAIT SERIE - JONAS MEKAS

Olivier Dekegel
A short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...

HIER WOONT MIJN HUIS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven pays tribute to her parents’ house that has recently been obtained by an Antwerp theatre. This film is about Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s incapacity to undergo changes over which she has no control. In making this video, she exorcised nostalgia and grief by sharing it...

ADIEU TRISTESSE

Robert Cash
On the face of it Adieu Tristesse is a black comedy which takes as its subject the act of ’sawing-the-lady-in-half’. We are comforted by our familiarity with this illusion and are sure all will be well in the end. Meanwhile the piece operates on another symbolic level in so far as it alludes to trick effects employed in early cinematography to heighten suspense and theatricality...

JUMP

Shelly Silver
In JUMP, Shelly Silver placed a static camera in a working-class neighbourhood. Accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack, on the background, we observe modest houses, an old factory and local inhabitants walking around. On the foreground, a group of children attempts to appear in the camera frame and enjoys to jump in and out of the image....

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [NOS VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”, the given answer this time being ’When the artist is toying around in all seriousness’...

TIME - CODE / 1434

Andreas Brehmer - Christine de la Garenne
In ‘time-code’, a new relationship is installed between painting and video. The images registered by a surveillance camera, that is transmitting the video signal to a surveillance monitor, are being filmed for a second time by another camera. The screen is revealing the image of a painting. A Flemish masterpiece anno 1434. The video ‘feels’ the surface of the painting...

VIDÉO HEBDO 5

Claude Cattelain
A static shot of a stairwell in which somebody runs around....

A ALEXANDRE SERGEÏEVITCH

Marie André
The story unfolds in the life of a young Belgian poet who, like the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, has African blood in his veins. Sometimes the poet enjoys that life, at other times he puts up with it like everyone else. Poetry, music, play, good food are the elements of his existence...

SLEEPLESS NIGHT

Koen Theys - Dirk Paesmans
The video was made during a study tour with the school where Koen Theys and Dirk Paesmans were studying. During the night, they went with a 1000 Watt spot to the dormitory of their fellow students, and filmed their reactions to the light. Afterwards these images were put in relation with a burning cross....