COLLECTIE

ANDRÉ ANDÉR

Karen Vanderborght
Portrait of the town fool and the nutty film student behind the camera. Does the person in front of the camera becomes an ‘object’ as soon as he or she is transformed into an ‘image’? This work was the final dissertation of Vanderborght....

PORQUE TE VAS (PORTRAITS)

Valérie Mannaerts
Three self portraits in a one minute loop, slowly fading in and out....

CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 2)

Michel François
- Arpenteur: A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface. - ’Tourner’ (2): A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man. - ’Pigeons’: A bunch of pigeons are being filmed in close-up while they are trying to eat...

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 5

Jacques Lennep
In the fifth part of this series of short sketches, Lennep continues to bring an homage to some of the most iconic artists of the 20th century...

4. DOWN / 6. ACROSS

Ken Kobland
Blocks and squares, a fragmented view from the side into cosy lit up apartments in the big city. Sofas, staircases, lampposts, tables with flowers. Dreamy piano music underlines this literally puzzled view on contemporary living. Suddenly the music and mood switches: we are in a jazzy and dynamic dreamscape somewhat reminiscent of Mondriaan’s masterful ‘Victory Boogie-Woogie...

MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ JACQUES BAUDUIN! [PRÉSIDENT DU PARTI ECOLO EN AVRIL 2002]

Claudio Pazienza
The magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....

Suarez, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

SUAREZ

Angel Vergara
After Franco’s death, Juan Carlos took the oath as king of Spain. He replaced the incumbent prime minister Carlos Arias with Adolfo Suárez, who would restore the civil liberties, and allow socialist and communist parties again. Parliamentary elections followed in 1977. With his brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images, while he and the images are behind a glass screen...

FLOATING LIGHT

Frank Van Herck
For a large part of the twentieth century, and of the previous one, the goal of art has been suppress the points of escape, to wipe out straight lines starting from the eye of the spectator to disappear somewhere in the horizon, or what the horizon of the spectator should be: the heroic, with which he should identify, the horizon in perspective from which he should give his orders...

JONAS

Olivier Dekegel
A short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...

BLUE MERIDIAN

Sofie Benoot
Following the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana, Blue Meridian is a captivating journey through the dilapidated and worn out Deep South of the United States of America. A cinematographic encounter with people living among the traces of natural disasters, economic decline and a turbulent history...