COLLECTIE

STANDARD TRIANGULATION

Adam Leech
Presented in an ingenious mise-en-scene, Adam Leech introduces the concept of triangulation. Such a “trialogue” can describe social, as well as legal, governmental or family situations better than a dialogue. A jazz singer is shown. While she performs jazz standards, she’s distracted by something off screen...

Disorient, Laurent Van Lancker, 2010 © the artist & producer

DISORIENT

Laurent Van Lancker - Florence Aigner
A polyphony of tales by migrants who return to their homeland after having lived abroad. Whether they are Vietnamese, Indian, Syrian, Iranian, Chinese, Pakistani, academics, contract workers, political refugees, businessmen or students, they all are confronted with a second exile: coming home...

BLENDER

Hans Op de Beeck
The video opens with a view of a deserted carousel. After a pause, the carousel slowly begins to turn, spinning faster and faster, the horses and the carriages blending into a single image, which blurs and disappears as the speed increases. As the speed decreases, the image of the carousel reappears and the fairground ride comes to a standstill. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

L'ARTISTE QUI DISAIT : MERCI !

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is not an ungrateful artist and in this video he thanks absolutely everybody for watching him: from curators, colleagues and museums, to simple spectators....

SLEEPING HIGHWAY

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

POKMÁN

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
Women chase their menfolk and beat them with burning sticks in an Asmat village. The young men suffer the beatings gladly and even seek out this treatment. Are we witnessing a punishment or is this a marriage market? Pokmán was filmed in the Asmat village of Pupis in May 2000....

OUVERTURE. CASTELLO DI RIVOLI, 1985

Jef Cornelis
A report on the Castello di Rivoli, an 18th century castle in the Torino region, formerly a summer home to royal nobility, but as of 1984 a Contemporary Art Museum. Its permanent collection comprises work by the likes of Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Sol Lewitt and Bruce Nauman and it documents crucial moments in the development of contemporary Italian art...

CONTAINER 08: OVER DON JUAN

Jef Cornelis
A discussion on the figure and myth of Don Juan, which originates in three different sources: the original version by Tirso de Molina from 1630, the version by Molière from 1665, and the libretto and opera by Mozart and da Ponte from 1787. Even among these versions there are considerable variants regarding the characters, the personalities, intrigues and endings...

OBJECTIEVE ARCHITECTUUR

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Swiss architect Werner Blaser curated the group exhibition 'Objective Architecture—Skin and Skeleton 'in the National Higher Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Antwerp. Jef Cornelis made a television report for the current art events programme 'Zoeklicht'. The documentary features only photographs of architecture on four continents...

LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 2: DIE WALKÜRE

Frank Theys - Koen Theys
This is the second part of the diptych ’Lied van mijn Land’ (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. At Hunding’s...