COLLECTIE

AND [BACK

Peter Downsbrough
AND [BACK ‘plays’ a complex ‘game’ with the words AND and BACK, where the word BACK sometimes functions as indicator, sometimes as trigger, sometimes as a comment on what is happening on-screen...

LOSS

Hans Op de Beeck
The work of Hans op de Beeck always breathes an atmosphere of profound emptiness. Characters, without words and totally alienated, stride through desolate landscapes and situations, out of which all hope seems to have leaked away. This is a world, seemingly lavished in the acid of everyday life, drenched in the liquid of loss...

MORT DE RIRE

Charley Case
Someone in a skeleton suit is dancing on a dark stage, a tracking light pointed at him. The skeleton-figure starts laughing cruelly. The boundary between life and death is blown away in a roar of laughter....

KAIROS

Alexis Destoop
Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the “right or opportune moment”. The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological time, the latter signifies “a time in between,” a break in the continuity of time, a moment in which something special happens...

LES 8 HOMMES QUI MARCHENT

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

VIDÉO HEBDO 2

Claude Cattelain
Filming the rotation of a concrete block held with a rope.  ...

PORTEMANTEAU

Messieurs Delmotte
How to hang one’s jacket without actually taking it off? Messieurs Delmotte exhibits a wide range of possibilities and techniques...

TOURNOIEMENT 2

Michel François
A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man....

DE KUNST VAN HET VERKOPEN

Jef Cornelis
This programme investigates the relationship and interaction between art and advertising with slight ironic overtones, because they both push forward beautiful images of a beautiful world. To some degree each artwork is a way of making publicity for its owner, a status symbol and trendsetter – just as long as it looks like what might pass of as art...

FOUNDLINGS

Orla Barry
’Foundlings’ was shot near Wexford, in the south east of Ireland where Orla Barry grew up. It is a  visual poem without a particular narrative and full of autobiographical elements, set at a very slow pace. Floating images and heavy voices are central to the associative strategy that is at work here...