COLLECTIE

I LIKE DENDERMONDE, DENDERMONDE LIKES ME

Emilio López-Menchero
The director of SMAK Philippe Van Cauteren invited Emilio López-Menchero to do a performance at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Solo Quint 3 organized by SMAK at Sint Blasius hospital and SMAK. The challenge was to question the intervention organized by the SMAK, a contemporary art museum, in Sint Blasius, a running hospital...

TOMORROW SQUARE

Aglaia Konrad
The installation ’Tomorrow Square’ consists of two facing projection screens on which eight hours of ‘cityscapes’ can be seen respectively. The visitor takes place in the middle between the screens. The exhibition situation was conceived by Konrad as a square, where different visual and audible signals are picked up from various directions...

REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...

BILE

Ira A. Goryainova
"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse."Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally, what is death...

THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY PROJECT

Tzu Nyen Ho
The script for the film, which takes place in a room at Singapore’s Supreme Court, is entirely based on the lyrics of Queen’s song Bohemian Rhapsody. A boy is on trial, and is broken-hearted at the sight of his ‘mama’ crying...

FABRICA/BRIGHTON (1 À 14)

Claude Cattelain
Claude Cattelain made a video each day during his residency at Fabrica/Brighton from August 1st to 15th in 2014.  ...

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...

WHAT A DAY!

Jean-Marie Buchet
A man leaves his home and he decides to visit his friends. A trivial, every-day moment develops into an alienating reflection on the commonplaces of cinematographic narration and role-play. Jean Marie Buchet wrote the scenario during the reading of numerous production proposals and the graduation projects of his course in screenplay writing...

Silent China, 2007, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT CHINA

Mira Sanders
For ’Silent China’, Mira Sanders did not want to capture images, but sound. While the image remains black, subtitles give us a fragmented impression of a journey through China, including the exact place and date of the recordings. The video was presented together with a folder on which several drawings, conceived as a description of noise, had been printed...

A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 2 SUNDAY

Jef Cornelis
The second part of a Magritte portrait, compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm, with home images of his family and circle of friends, outings and holidays. ’ Original broadcast date: 20/03/1997...