COLLECTIE

YZER

An van. Dienderen
"A personal documentary conceived as a search for the source of the Belgian river Ijzer, in which its historical connotations to WWII are explored in relation to its natural trajectory. Experimenting with sound and images, this poetical video evokes rather than explains, by leaving any textual commentary aside." (Source: An van...

BALLOON FROM INSIDE

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

THE RESIDENCE (A WAGER FOR THE AFTERLIFE) (SINGLE SCREEN VERSION)

Katleen Vermeir - Ronny Heiremans
The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) focuses on the artist as entrepreneur in a global society that qualifies economy as the single measure of things. Offering a biting commentary on the contagious nature of capitalism it elaborates on the symbiosis of art and value, life and economy. Using codes of fiction and fact it questions representation and mediation of art and architecture...

CUT

Michel Lorand
’Cut’ takes us along a slow, night time journey through the outskirts of a city, over a heavily travelled highway network. Only at the end do we get a fleeting glimpse of a man, lonely, but walking determinedly along the side of the road...

PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS

Filip Francis
A series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....

SANS TITRE. UN JOUR AGNÈS RENCONTRE SON DOUBLE DANS UN HÔTEL

Nicolas Dufranne
One day Agnes runs into her doppelganger in a hotel, a young woman who bears a weird likeness to her and who died by drowning...

UNTITLED (B&W)

Valérie Mannaerts
This video consists of four uncut sequences of light, distance and looking. First the fingers of two hands are forming different shapes. They seem to be indicating an amount of space, distance or mass. Or maybe they are telling the viewer what he or she should look at? Secondly images of the broad sky are recorded...

CAILLOUX

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to catch the essence of the volatile. His video miniatures are flashes of amazement and fragility, staged at times, or noticed in passing. Impulsive, not without a sense of humour, Cattelain records an actual spatial escapism or emotional turning points...

Take into the air my quiet breath, 2007, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne © the artists

TAKE INTO THE AIR MY QUIET BREATH

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
In 1966, the Syrian government’s Ministry of Endowments solicited plans for a building to replace a 14th-century Mamluk mosque in Martyr’s Square in the centre of Damascus. A young architect proposed a design for a 5-star hotel and new mosque. In 1971, his plans were scrapped. In 1982, building started on a new structure...

A BROKEN RULE

Vincent Meessen
‘A Broken Rule’ is based on a performance realized by Meessen with collaborators in Burkina Faso. The video portrays African men taking turns carrying luminous text plates – often the only source of light in the image – through a nocturnal city...