COLLECTIE

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...

CRIME 01

Koen Theys
This is the first of two videos that are an interpretation by Koen Theys of the two home movies Adolf Hitler made during his lifetime. One of these home movies shows the german shepherd Blondi who is running on the terras of the Eagle’s nest in the German Alps. Crime 01 is the registration of a performance by Koen Theys held in a squat in Ghent...

PUBLIC TRANCEPORT

Konrad Becker
This video by Konrad Becker combines two aspects. First of all ’Public tranceport’ is a documentary about the street media event, that took place on July 11th 1992 in Vienna. But it’s also the intentional declaration of an underground movement, consisting of video and music artists, that want to reach the people of the street and not the market...

DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER

Alexander Kluge
As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...

FIR TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
In a public park the protagonist approaches a pine with a small ladder. He unfolds it, takes a run up, and jumps into a tree, desperately trying to clench on to it. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

VACANCES

Nicolas Dufranne
The subject of ‘Vacances’ is simple: a couple with a child, happy at first sight, sets out on a journey of which the goal and the destination remain unknown. In the hotel where they halt a letter is waiting for the young woman, which arouses some jealousy in her partner. Later on during the trip there is a car accident in which the man dies...

JACK THE DRIPPER (PSYCHOPAINTER)

Pascal Bernier
Three short video sketches made with minimal means and based on samples from various media (mainly the internet and pop music), creating a form of ‘garage- video’, with no other ambition, according to Bernier himself, than the generation of specific emotions which might also pop up when listening to loud rock music or watching pornographic films...

HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS NÉ EN 1941

Jacques Lennep
An enumeration of the misfortunes of Lennep’s body, followed by the removal of a birthmark on the artist’s breast....

SOMEWHERE IN ZEUS' SECRET DOMAIN

Hänzel & Gretzel
As an insatiable rapist of subjects and spectators, Zeus makes use of all the tricks, borrows literally any image in attracting into his cathode Olympia all that might still resist his omnipotence. Five monitors, five mixes of rushes and final images associate Zeus’ mythological rapes with the manipulation and the ever-growing power of the media today...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER KUNST MAATSCHAPPIJBEWUST MAAKT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”. ’When art creates social awareness’ is an interview with J.F...