COLLECTIE

OVER THE TOP

Justine Cappelle
We meet Floris in the empty and cold warehouse where he collects cardboard boxes and is organising them in a specific way. We discover the boxes start to form a pyramid. The boxes symbolise Floris’ ultimate desire: reaching the top. Literally the top since Floris wants to put his epitaph of mankind on top of the Gizeh pyramid...

EXOTICORE

Nicolas Provost
An immigrant from Burkina Faso attempts to integrate into Norwegian society. The film explores the question of what it is like to be a foreigner searching for a niche in today’s world, and addresses the notions of solitude and contemporary insanity. Exoticore is an odyssey through our multicultural society complete with its alienation and prejudices. A dark journey into exoticism....

L'APPEL DES CIMES

Jacques Lennep
The artist descends from a mountain on one leg. His right foot is bandaged. When Lennep removes the bandage, a gold foot appears....

(GEDULD) WACHTEN, ATTENDRE, WAIT, WARTEN

Daniël Dewaele
During the twentieth century art has, for a great deal, shifted towards conceptual art, where the finished execution of an art work is of less importance then the idea behind it. This definition could be applied to Dewaele’s video. The image of a doorbell that says ’wachten’ (wait) is shown. So the viewer waits... and waits, but the image never changes...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 16 : COBOY CHASSEUR

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Once again the weather is beautiful when farmer Steven and his wife Jeanine take the cows to the meadow. Cowboy and Indian want to take advantage of this fine weather to go out hunting. Cowboy is lucky: he shoots a bird. Indian is less fortunate: his arrow fails and he causes a plane to crash. Passengers in the plane were Joseph and Mary. Luckily they fall in the pond and their fall is broken...

MY BROTHER’S GARDENS

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...

WINTER PRAYERS

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Is every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...

TRANSCITY

Pascal Baes
Recorded in the frame of Netdays Wallonie-Bruxelles 2002, Transcity (2003) is an experimental silent video that combines repeated observations of passers-by and several recordings of the performances by Baes’ life companion Aï Suzuki...

LA FOLLIA/CONCEIT

Stefan Franck - Bart Van Dessel
What does one recalls of an evanescent event like a dance-performance, once it is over? This work is at the same time a horticultural video on dance, an ornament on the border of choreography plus on the frustration about recollection...

VOYAGE EN PAYS SECRET

Jean-Claude Riga
Three women. Magical and devout practices. Prayers coming from the depth of times, paganism and religion. Rituals in the kitchens, the cowsheds. Laying on of hands almost caresses. Sweetness of housewives. Countryside energy. Relief and healing. At the end of the way, yet, illness and death. That of men and beast....