COLLECTIE

Battles of Troy, 2005, Krassimir Terziev © the artist

BATTLES OF TROY

Krassimir Terziev
“Battles of Troy” is a study on the internal economy of contemporary globalized cinema production, seen through the eyes of the lowest unit in the production hierarchy - the extras. The focus of the study is the making of the Warner Bross Motion Picture “Troy” (2004). Starting in 2003 with a budget of 185 000 000 USD, Troy is one of the most expensive productions ever made...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 60. THREE EXAMPLES

Steve Reinke
An example of mountains. An example of eclipse. An example of stones....

CHANSON, LIED, SONG

Cel Crabeels
The video shows an old lady in a home for the elderly. She sings the story of her own life, in improvised, rhyming phrases. Echoes from another age, language mosaics from an animated past receive an anachronous echo through added electronic sound collages, as a collision of time, memory and sound. The music is by Ederen Tatio / Stefaan Vinckevleugel....

NADINE

Jacques Lennep
The artist talks about his holiday as a child when he became friends with Nadine. Old photographs of Nadine and Lennep are alternated with images of desolate places....

COME IN

Cel Crabeels
This tape is part of an installation with the same name. It consists of a one-hour recording of a door. The image on show is mainly static. It comes to life at random moments, when voices and footsteps can be heard. There is a knocking at the door, sometimes violent. Someone is fiddling the handle. Footsteps are running away...

LANDSCAPE MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 41. PIONEER

Steve Reinke
Recently I attended my maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary. I became a little sad thinking how a fully articulated spectrum of sexual pleasure had been denied to them....

LE CERCLE DES NOYÉS

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Le cercle des noyés (Drowned by Oblivion) is the most documentary essay by Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd (1969). The film looks back on 1987 and the imprisonment of a number of Mauritanian political activists in an abandoned colonial fort at Oualata. Political authorities described them as subversives, so they were picked up, taken away and handled as such...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 14 : COBOY ET INDIEN FONT DU CAMPING

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
As the title says, Cowboy and Indian go out camping. They find the perfect spot on top of a hill. They put up the tent, and install their mattresses and barbecue, but then Cowboy does something really stupid: his gun accidentally goes off and he shoots a hole in his air mattress. The two then decide to gather wood and go hunting...

SMALL LIES, BIG TRUTH

Shelly Silver
"In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S...