COLLECTIE

Biscuter, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BISCUTER

Angel Vergara
Archive images depict a race between little cars in the streets of Castelló. They are doing laps in the city. The Biscuter used to have a two-stroke engine and is a striking piece of heritage dating from Franco’s Spain in the fifties. The images function as central starting point in the exhibition, which is also considered a kind of circuit....

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Didier Volckaert

THE GIRL

Hans Op de Beeck
The Girl is a slow, suggestive, perception-oriented animated film in which the viewer is transported to the strange world of a silent, 14-year-old girl. The dreamy landscape images show a dark forest, a vast landfill, a gas station, a highway landscape, a meadow, a factory site and a mysterious lake. Amidst all this stands an old caravan...

DYPTIQUE

Angel Vergara
Angel Vergara’s Diptyque juxtaposes the position of two public figures with the mass media: Pasolini denouncing its standardising effect, its flattening of Italian society into sterile conformity (including the conformity in contestation), Berlusconi in control of the national media, but in the end powerless to govern...

ABOUT POP-MUSIC BY ROBERT A. FISCHER

André Colinet
Epilogue, and complementary sequel to the film ‘Larguez les Amarres – Drop the Moorings’. A new, independent chapter of the film poem by Robert Fischer and Henri Storck, where art, the individual and society all play a major role...

DANSE (BEAUBOURG EVENT 02)

Luc Ferrari
One-sided release. "'Dance' was part of a sound/visual installation called 'Labyrinthe De Violence'...

KOEN THEYS

Jan Florizoone
Jan Florizoone enlarges his series of extremely personal, intimate portraits of artists (Franky DC, Gorik Lindemans, Ever Meulen) with a video on visual artist Koen Theys. Armed with a video camera, Florizoone follows Theys who is himself armed with a photo camera: this takes place at various locations in Brussels; at times with the cameraman getting in the way of the photographer...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: SOSIE D'ELVIS

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
In a tournament of look-alikes, the winner is a robot that resembles Elvis Presley perfectly. A man is singing about this strange event....

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

Bo Vloors
"You know what I mean" observes the entrance of a mosque in Saint Louis, Senegal. The audio, emphasized with subtitles, is a live conversation between two European citizens who reflect on the intensity of their experience and what they see....

AFTER THE BATTLE

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Three films about the culture of remembrance of World War 1 (Winter Prayers 2006, The Scrap-Iron Age, 2008, War is Over 2011) have been re-edited in AFTER THE BATTLE. The search for remnants on the former battlefields of France and Belgium has its origin in a combination of materialist, ideological and supernatural motives...