COLLECTIE

WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....

untitled part 7.1: intro, 2010, Jayce Salloum © the artist

UNTITLED PART 7: THE HEART THAT HAS NO PAIN/ LOVE/ GENEROSITY IS NOT A HEART

Jayce Salloum
In April 2008, Jayce Salloum and Afghan-Hazara artist Khadim Ali travelled between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Arrived at the Bamiyan Valley - the famous area where the two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddha carved into the side of a cliff were dynamited by the Taliban – they focused on observing the situation of the local and persecuted minority, the Hazara people...

Gnawa, Olivier Dekegel, 2010 © the artist & producer

GNAWA

Olivier Dekegel
A medium-length film produced and distributed by the director, a true cinephile, lover and connoisseur of classic and experimental cinema. Filmed on Super 8, Gnawa is an immersive flood, a sensorial trip to the magico-religious rites of the Gnawa in Morocco, made with such virtuosity that it elevates the viewer, cinematographically, into a trance akin to that of the dancers and musicians depicted...

JEAN-MICHEL WUILBEAUX

Jacques Lennep

The Circle Marokko, Ria Pacquée, 2004. Courtesy the Artist

THE CIRCLE OF MAROKKO 2004

Ria Pacquée
From up-close, Pacquée films a craftsman in the streets of Marrakesh. Seated on the ground, he is making circles in round rusty plates. Without further explication – the sound on the piece is the one of a nearby goldsmith hammering – the viewer is left alone with this enigmatic, slightly disturbing image...

SI ÇA VOUS ARRIVE CE SOIR

Wim Catrysse
Si ça vous arrive ce soir is a single-channel video installation Wim Catrysse made in 1998. The film focuses on the irregular reflections of faces, which constantly alternate. The reflections are bathing in a dim, ominous light that illuminates the faces from below. The camera moves nervously over this one particular face that seems to wander shyly and anxiously through the ill-lit space...

(VOLCANO) ABOUT THE ANTI-CAPITALIST CARNIVAL

Charley Case
The crowd is on the move, dancing in the mud at a devilish pace, demonstrating ('make love not money'), writing their demands on their bodies ('we only want peace') or on walls (the body of the city) ... euphoria is mixed with struggle: the first frames go from a festive anti-globalization meeting to the destruction of a McDonald's...

John Thompson, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

JOHN THOMPSON

Angel Vergara
The British art critic Jon Thompson offers a one-liner: "Most artists can’t deal with very small amount of freedom that they have, otherwise they’d make better art."...

BOUWEN IN BELGIË

Jef Cornelis
A documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...

COGELS OSYLEI, BERCHEM

Jef Cornelis
Cogels Osylei is an unique district, built around 1900 on the outskirts of Antwerp. With its exuberant mixture of neo-styles and Jugendstil, it was often discarded as the absolute limit of bad taste, to the point that plans were made in the 1970s to tear down the area altogether...