COLLECTIE

Leopold 1eme, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LEOPOLD 1EME

Angel Vergara
Vergara is focusing here on the ties between art and the political system. He does this by showing texts about the financial support granted to Hendrik Conscience by Leopold I. By letting his brush move across the cinematic images, the artist is also suggesting that recorded reality embodies the pallet with which he is ’painting’....

PORTRAIT OF KARL MARX AS A YOUNG GOD

Gernot Wieland
Portrait of Karl Marx as a young god is an absurd documentary about (political) desire. The film consists of collages and drawings with voice over comments by a telephone speaker. The images visualize specific historical reminiscences from recent German history, while the voice over extends and counteracts these images with a multitude of absurd and humorous interpretations....

SCULPTURE HOUSE

Aglaia Konrad
In the second half of the 1960s, the Belgian architect Jacques Gillet started the construction of the 'Sculpture House Project' (1967-1968), a private dwelling in the surroundings of Liège, Belgium. A synthesis of structure and form, the architect worked together with the sculptor Félix Roulin and the engineer René Greisch...

I LOVE MARIE DE CORTE

Marc Vanrunxt - Robert Cash
Fragments of a dance performance by Marie de Corte. The solemn music and the darkness of the images create a haunting atmosphere....

RICHTINGEN

Philippe Van Snick
In the bright, blue sky airplanes have left the traces of their engines, with lines of white clouds as result. They are the minimalist painters of the sky. Some lines are very visible, while others are already fading away....

ALL MUST BE LOVE

Hänzel & Gretzel
Crime & The City Solution featuring Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) introducing themselves before being captured live in a smoky club. The camera got it all....

MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (POST-PRODUCTIONS)

Jacques Lennep
In the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his ‘Musée de l’homme’, a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...

Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin, Alexander Kluge, 1973. Copyright

GELEGENHEITSARBEIT EINER SKLAVIN

Alexander Kluge
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin (In Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave) is the second Kluge's film, after Abschied von gestern (1966), starring his sister Alexandra. Roswitha Bronski is a nurse married to the chemical engineer Franz Bronski and they have three children...

LAURIEN, OCTOBER 2007

Manon de Boer
Began in 1996, Laurien is portrayed in three sessions, as indicated by the title dates (1996, 2001 and 2007). Each time, Laurien is asked to read a newspaper, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel of ± 2’30”....

VIDEO-TAPE

Frank Van Herck
Filmed in the studio of the Antwerp ICC; use of split- and overflow-techniques. Topic is the medium itself. A video camera records its reflection in a mirror, while several actions are being performed in front of it....