COLLECTIE

VISUALAX

Axel Claes
A video-critique on the concept of exploring the world as being ‘Im Wunderkabinet der Kulturen’. This enchantment made of separations and exotisms is present in many actual urban narratives and alternative cultural work pieces. It is deeply rooted in 19th century Western concepts on the other. Every village slowly slides into the archipelago of cultures...

SCRUB SOLOS SERIES

Antonin De Bemels
The Scrub Solos are the result of a collaboration between video-maker Antonin de Bemels and dancer/choreographer Bud Blumenthal. The first step was a series of slow motion improvisations filmed in semi-obscurity with a super 8 camera adjusted to a ’long exposure’ setting...

Die Macht der Gefühle, Alexander Kluge, 1984. copyright

DIE MACHT DER GEFÜHLE

Alexander Kluge
An organic and densely layered meditation on the intangible, irrational mechanism of human emotion. Die Macht der Gefühle (The Power of Emotion) explores how chance and destiny determine our emotions and explains that emotion isn't to be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any art form...

VENISE 6

Claude Cattelain
A couple of Venice's buildings seen from a puddle....

THE BUILDING

Hans Op de Beeck
'The Building' is a digitally-generated animation film which takes the viewer on a virtual, nocturnal walking tour of a fictitious, massive hospital. The facility has the mediocre, half-hearted, over-the-top architectural features common to hospitals, shopping malls, health clubs and airports all over the Western world...

À MA D'AZIL

Thomas Israël - Charley Case
The Grotto of Mas-d'Azil is a crossed cavern dug by the river Arize in the French Pyrenees. During the prehistoric and different historic eras, it was inhabited. Furthermore, it's the only European grotto which is accessible by car and the route allowed to discover its first inhabitants such as mammoths, bears and rhinos...

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS - THE ANGST ARCHIVE

Ken Kobland
Kobland’s quiet, meditative video is a philosophical investigation, a travelogue of sorts, and, ultimately, a probing essay-film in the tradition of Aleksandr Sokurov or a late Godard...

THE BREECHES (2)

Messieurs Delmotte
Second part of a performace diptych. A person – Messieurs Delmotte himself ? – stands with his back in front of the camera. He is wearing white, almost transparent underwear; the only part filmed is his mid section. From between his legs a pot of choco pasta is slowly emptied....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 66. ATTEMPT TO SING

Steve Reinke
Attempt to sing beautifully and obscure hits from the past but forget the words and be reduced to humming....

REGARDE JONATHAN / JEAN LOUVET, SON OEUVRE

Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne
’Regarde Jonathan’ highlights the work of dissident playwright Jean Louvet through highly impressionist montages (a lone boxer, moving trains, dancing feet) and Brechtian restagings of his work (dramatic readings, minimalist sets, and snippets of text)...