COLLECTIE

21 JULI

Axel Claes
Old Super8 images of the Belgian National Holiday celebrations in Brussels were edited by Axel Claes into a short snapshot. The short, volatile fragments give an impression of an occupied city, just when the parade, headed by king Baudouin/ Boudewijn, runs over the inner city, raising looks of awe and amazement with its military display...

LE CADEAU

Myriam Van Imschoot
Le Cadeau is a tribute to the 'youyou' (in French) or the 'zagharit' (in Arabic), a shrill trill that is used by women in North-Africa, the Middle East, Subsaharan Africa, amongst other countries, to express joy and other intense emotions. Nowadays the cry can be heard more and more in Western contexts, where it diversifies the soundscapes of private and public spaces...

IMPRESSION AU FIL DES EAUX

Jacques Lennep
In this video Lennep films various rivers between the Loire and the Cher in France....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 92. NOTES ON THE UNCANNY

Steve Reinke
This place is familiar. I have been here before....

RESONATING SURFACES

Manon de Boer
First, there’s only darkness and music combined with vague, indefinable sounds, like footsteps or stumbling. Then, slowly, the image whitens, giving way bit by bit to some 16 mm film spots and scratches. Now and then, images appear for a split second. The music swells, distorted, cut through with noise...

ALBUM 1

Boris Lehman
“Je filme et je suis filmé” (I film and I am filmed)Boris Lehman made the film Album 1 in 1974 for the first Festival National du Film super 8. At the time, Super 8 was a video format that was mainly used by amateurs, yet as such it was to play an important part in democratization of cinema...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 46. SLEEP

Steve Reinke
Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what it is we really want....

TAMLALTE

Jen Debauche
Lahcen Akil is a musician, born in 1969 in Tamlalte, a traditional village situated in Grand Atlas Mountains of Morocco. His song “Tamlalte” is a homage to this mountainous gem. Jen Debauche’s film sways between the definition of an experimental video and a music clip, touching upon the beauty of coinciding song, image, memory, and present emotion.    ...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 2 : COB'HULK

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
In ‘Cob’Hulk’, Cowboy swallows a meteoroid, and every time he is antagonized, he undergoes a transformation and regresses in the evolution chain, as far as becoming a lizard. Fortunately, he spits out the meteoroid and becomes normal again...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 3 : LE RELAX

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
In ‘Le Relax’, Horse, Cowboy, and Indian are preparing waffles. However, they do not have any eggs. Horse and Indian are going to try to find some on the farm. In the meanwhile, Cowboy unwraps an enormous package indented for Horse (whereas the latter had stressed that no one should interfere with the package), a ‘relax’ and truly multifunctional armchair...