COLLECTIE

Palais Royal, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PALAIS ROYAL

Angel Vergara
In ’Palais Royal’ several people are posing in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels. The spectrum is diverse. Families with young children as well as three sailors are shown onscreen. In the meantime, traffic goes up and down Koningsstraat and Paleizenplein....

Comment liberer les artistes libres, 2003 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

ENQUÊTE: COMMENT LIBÉRER LES ARTISTES LIBRES?

Angel Vergara
Between 2002 and 2004 Angel Vergara interviewed a series of figures from the Belgian art scene. He asked them what they understood to be the freedom of the artist. Some answers were rather short, while others resulted in longer conversations. The project developed out of collaboration with Benoît Eugène. The recordings were distributed through the website www.walkingvoice...

PLIER

Karen Vanderborght
‘Plier’ was made as a fifteen-minute assignment for the Melbourne International Film Festival – where it was also chosen as the best work. The challenge consisted in making a video within 15 hours, without any budget or preparations and with clear, multiple appearances of a secret object, not to be revealed until the day of the recording...

FROM SAND TO DUST

Claude Cattelain
Walking on the spot, stomping down the sand beneath my feet....

A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Teenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...

L'HOMME QUI MARCHE

Philippe de Pierpont
A fictional character walks through the half of Belgium, from the centre of Brussels to De Panne at the seaside. On his way he meets 'real' people from everyday that show their everyday environments. In this documentary, de Pierpont uses fictional techniques in order to create a subjective portrait of the north of Belgium, and its inhabitants in 1992....

FLUXUS ZUG

Wolf Vostell

(DIS)LOCATION

Meggy Rustamova
'(dis)Location' is a many layered film making use of photography and voice over to reveal a narrative beyond the personal and the universal. The video '(dis)Location' focuses on the dynamic between audience and author, language, interpretation, the duality between reality and fiction, storytelling and visual narration...

untitled part 2: beauty and the east, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2003 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 2: BEAUTY AND THE EAST

Jayce Salloum
Part 2 in a series of attempts at concretizing the notion of interstitiality, this videotape addresses issues of nationalism & the nation state, polarities of time, alienation, the refusal & construction of political identities, ethno-fascism, the body as object & metaphor, agents, monsters & abjectness, subjective affinities, and objective trusts...

BRUTUS

Edith Dekyndt
‘Brutus’ was filmed during a winter holiday in the mountains. It brings the same image into the picture as in ‘Living (Usual TV. Reflections)’; Dekyndt films here again the living room that is reflected on the television screen...