COLLECTIE

DISSONANT

Manon de Boer
In Dissonant, Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij while the latter dances for about 10 minutes to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 sonates for violin solo – a piece that holds vivid memories for her. The camera follows her every movement. A physical time limit, namely the 3-minute duration of one 16-mm film roll, interrupts the camera’s continued movement...

INDUCTION

Nicolas Provost
Main Entry: in· duc· tion 1 a: the act or process of inducting (as into office) b: an initial experience: 2 a (1): inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances -- compare 3: a preface, prologue, or introductory scene especially of an early English play 4 a: the act of bringing forward or adducing (as facts or particulars) (Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary...

HOMMAGE À … III

Lili Dujourie
The five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à … III, Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...

CANAL

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte teaches us a lesson of balance while he tries really hard not to fall in the canal. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine, Till Roeskens, 2009 © the artist & producer

VIDÉOCARTOGRAPHIES: AÏDA, PALESTINE

Till Roeskens
In ’Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine’ Roeskens asks several inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee camp Aïda to draw him a map. The camera records the inverse of these scribbles, showing the marks of the black pen through the white paper...

THE DEATH OF JAMES LEE BYARS

Peter Brosens
Based upon two performances / installations of James Lee Byars: ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’ and ‘The White Mass’. In ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’, the artist acts out his own death on 1 July 1994. Wearing a mask and dressed in gold, Byars lies in the ‘golden room’ of the Marie-Puck Broodthaers Art Gallery in Brussels...

MOUNE Ô

Maxime Jean-Baptiste
"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...

SMILEY 3D WATER

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte holds a fishbowl with a smiley face drawn on it over his head. He tries to fill it with water from a garden hose. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

VIETNAM

Wolf Vostell
Vostell returns on the theme of war in 'Vietnam'. This film consists of manipulated images from a television report on the war in Vietnam. The images were filmed directly from the television screen with a Super 8 camera: seven minutes of blurred images of a soldier amidst a fire/gunbattle...

DAGBOEK

Luc Deleu
During the month of April, Deleu recorded his own audio-visual journal. He marks the days by using a tear-off calendar. A stream of images portray the artist’s every day life, inside his home and on the streets. The glimmering of city lights at night, the luring advertisements and the headlines of newspapers are captured on film...