COLLECTIE

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PARTS I, II & III

Jayce Salloum
..The Ascent of Man.. Parts I, II, & III is a body of work which looks at the way reproductions/ representations are used to promote, influence and direct a way of life. Perceptual process is examined and guided through common gesture and implication of context to present a view of scientific/corporate materialistic domination of humanistic concerns...

CLOSED DISTRICT

Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
The material for ’Closed District’ was recorded in 1996 in the South-Sudanese village of Mankien where Vandeweerd filmed the war, which has lasted for thirty years in this area. Because of the despair and disillusion there, it took him almost ten years to edit the images into a documentary, which is not merely about the war in Sudan, but about wars in general...

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ [ORIGINAL RUSSIAN VERSION]

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - DISC

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A flashing stream of images of homemade videos are pasted together with random TV fragments. These images can be put on a disc, which the voice-over tells the viewer to buy....

J'AI LA TÊTE QUI TOURNE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
The heads of a video recorder are turning; the earth is turning. The night succeeds the day. Thought and images pass by; the artist is feeling dizzy. The unfolding story follows the course of a conversation between him, a counter of stones, and the female character Theresa. Their intention is to move the world and the night into a little grey corner...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 87. CHILDREN'S VIDEO COLLECTIVE

Steve Reinke
In the early seventies I was a founding member of the Children’s Video Collective....

RIANTE CONTRÉE

François Vogel
The characters of this computer animation film have hardwired bodies with integrated monitors displaying organs such as hands, mouths, and buttocks. The integration of organic elements into a computer graphics environment provokes a sense of unease that is nevertheless quickly straightened by the playfulness of the male and females monitor-bodies...

I MAY HAVE LOST FOREVER MY UMBRELLA...

Johan Grimonprez
In the spring of 2011, during the Photomonth in Krakow, the artist collective Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin invited Johan Grimonprez to be part of 'ALIAS', an exhibition with artists who inhabit alternative versions of themselves. An artist and a writer were teamed up with the aim to create a non-existent third persona...

COUNTDOWN TO NOTHING

Lucile Desamory
An “autobiographical self-activation musical around hypnosis and friendship”. Made in collaboration with musician Kevin Blechdom, the musical “Countdown to Nothing” tells the story of two women meeting around a tree, somewhere, maybe in a park. One of them is flying around, can’t put her feet on the ground while the other is tangled in flesh web...

CAT FOOD WOMAN

Alison Murray
A parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...