COLLECTIE

THE LIPS OF OSIRIS ANI

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A film about love, identity and re-incarnation, all trapped in the cycle of evolution. ‘The Lips of Osiris Ani’ was originally made to accompany a live performance by Club Moral in which Danny Devos shouts, his head under water, the sound amplified by a hydrophone...

TRAVELOGUE 5: DÉJÀ-VU

Stefaan Decostere - Elie Peeters
‘Déjà-vu’ deals with virtual tourism in Japan and is based on the idea of being somewhere else without having to leave your homeland...

FLEUVE CONGO À KINSHASA

Marie-Françoise Plissart
’Un jour, l’avenir nous donnera raison’ (One Day, the Future Will Show We Are Right) will be a series of portraits of rivers. The selection will be based on their historical, ecological and geopolitical importance. Each river represents a local challenge which, at the same time, corresponds with a universal one...

NATURE SEE YOU

Erik Bünger
In November 2015, at the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris, a video was uploaded on the internet, in which Koko, a gorilla trained in the use of American Sign Language, addresses world leaders directly. She chastises humanity and calls for immediate action to save herself and the nature she is part of...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 70. DR. ASSELBERGS

Steve Reinke
It was mistake for me to collaborate with a researcher. I wanted only the bare facts to speculate around. Instead I have too many details. Once again, I have been cheated by History. My role as an author has been usurped by our luck in tracking down the actual Dr. Asselbergs, who remembers things differently than I would have preferred. I thought potato flakes would be an ideal subject...

I AM A CONJUROR

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
A beautiful science fiction narrative which calls basic cultural preconceptions into question, this film follows the everyday lives of a couple who have altered the path of science as we understand it....

BAYINDO

Paul Shemisi Betutua
In a story about traditional medicine, spirituality, and decolonization, Bayindo takes us to Kinshasa in the DR Congo. The film dives into the heart of the animist community "Kintuadi Tuka Kongo", a group that attempts to restore the customs and the ancestral faiths destroyed by the arrival of the missionaries and colonizers....

SNNORRREBOT

Jan Vromman
A girl and a man are staying in the house. Another man, in some kind of hotel, looks out over the landscape with binoculars. A blind man arrives. They all play music. We visit a local wedding, and again there is music, bagpipes even. The music gives this video its structure, along with the gestures, movements, objects and many, many musical instruments...

MY HEART OF MY COMING INTO BEING

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
A figure is sitting down and staring at the sun, while its thoughts mingle with the horizon. The figure simplifies itself to abstract shapes, colors, then nothing. After which the person exists again as an idea to live forever...

PAU BRASIL : JE VINDT NIET, WAT JE ZOEKT

Jef Cornelis
’You don’t find what you’re looking for’ is a phrase that can be found on a work of art by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. In their work, Meireles and several other contemporary Brazilian artists, continually give expression to the formal and social tension in which Brazilian culture finds itself...