COLLECTIE

L'AVENTURE EXTRAVAGANTE D'UN POULET

Jacques Lennep
Lennep goes to a huge chicken farm to fetch a chicken. He paints the chicken with red and black paint, then puts it in a pot. In the end he releases the animal in the woods. ...

EUROPE FROM AFAR

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
Through a number of conversations ’Europe from Afar’ relates the Levantine projection of Europe as it is found in the book by Jacqueline Kahanoff ’Vom Osten das Licht’ to other projections inside the continents as well as outside them...

URINAL AND BREAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte puts slices of bread in the drains of a public toilet near a church and films the people leaving the toilet. Afterwards he picks the slices up and takes them home. Delmotte makes them into a ball and squeezes the ball empty in his mouth. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

THE MARTYR

Hubert Marécaille
Finding himself in a dream alone locked in a glass cage, beginning to panic, an office worker, on his way to work the next day and still marked by his nightmare, panics suddenly, – finding himself surrounded by a dense crowd, while trying to flee to be alone, suddenly oppressed by the outside world, or unconsciously, by his inner world...  ...

QUELQUES SÉQUENCES D'ART SANS TALENT

Jacques Lizène
‘Quelques sequences d’art sans talent’ (‘Some sequences of untalented art’) was completely recorded at the studios of the Belgian-French network RTBF, as an edition of the program Vidéographie(s)’ that focused on video art during the 1976 to 1986 period...

RIB GETS IN THE WAY

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke has long been lauded for his irreverent, philosophical, and often acerbic works, which typically adopt the form of personal essays to wryly bend and reread wide-ranging topics from pop culture to sex to theories of visual perception and beyond...

PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3

Thomas Bernardet
The video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....

Eth(n)ique Vietnam, Laurent Van Lancker, 2000 © the artist & producer

ETH(N)ICS VIETNAM

Laurent Van Lancker
In 1997 a young Anthropology and Cinema MA Graduate endeavours on a voyage to North Vietnam with two friends to shoot his first ethnographic documentary film. The enterprise is auto-financed and DV based, Digital Video having only recently been commercially introduced to the market. The initial excitement and spirit of adventure, though, are soon to be cut short by a major obstacle...

THE LAND

Pieter Geenen
While walking through the landscape the camera explores the so called Canadian tobacco belt of Southwestern Ontario in three chapters. In the footsteps of the first European settlers on the American continent, the viewer discovers how the historical process of colonisation, cultivation and exploitation of the land is still being reflected in present day reality...

LEÇONS D'UNE UNIVERSITÉ VOLANTE

Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne
’Leçons d’une université volante’ is a quintet of short interviews with Belgian immigrants from communist Poland. The Dardennes have said one of the reasons they made documentaries was to gather people together and build communities of workers, immigrants, and activists...