COLLECTIE

LA CHAMELLE BLANCHE

Xavier Christiaens
What if Ulysses, returning from his travels, had found only indecipherable shreds, shards, dark and shifting landscapes, splintered vestiges of his past? A disturbing disorder reigns all around, putting eyes and ears in a constant state of expectation, prisoners of these fragments of a reality so gripping, obtuse, impossible to avoid and yet misleading, fleeing and opaque...

BAREFOOT BIRTHDAY ON UNBREAKABLE GLASS

Rebecca Jane Arthur - Azam Masoumzadeh
In Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes...

OUTPLACEMENT 01 (PORTRET)

Cel Crabeels
Cel Crabeels explicitly tackles the issues of the area surrounding the St. Jan’s square. He visits the itinerary between the Fabiola Hall and the Sint Jan’s square almost on a daily basis, making contact with the people he meets on his way. He invites them to make a video portrait in the underground parking garage where he has built a studio for the occasion...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: LES DIAMANTS ROSES

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
A cleaning man of Inter-Airways finds a bag full of pinks diamonds, hidden in a garbage can on the airport. He returns the diamonds to the authorities. On the background, consisting of black-and-white images of airports, images of airplanes and diamonds are pasted. The woman appearing in the center of the screen sings the tale of the lucky cleaning man....

THE LAND WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED (THE FUTURE)

Marie Voignier
For the Ateliers de Rennes 2012, and in keeping with the spirit of Les Prairies, Marie Voignier has put herself in a real-life situation, that of looking at a building plot and investigating the different ways of approaching construction on it...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOL. 1 - FIRST A-CHRONOLOGY 1921-2001

Guy-Marc Hinant
"AN UNPUBLISHED HISTORY this is the great beginning of a vast anthology of "noise and electronic music" that we plan for the following years in 7 double volumes...

HIGH TIDE

Lukas Marxt
High Tide hypnotically fixes its gaze on a landscape that’s either prehuman or postapocalyptic, but definitely a timeless arrangement in shades of gray — Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. Stiff, dry and dully gleaming like damp tar, they tear a hole between the dark, gloomy sea and the grayish sky...

BIËNNALE SINT-NIKLAAS

Jef Cornelis
For the 14th episode of “Zoeklicht” (Searchlight) on BRT (Belgian Radio & Televison), Jef Cornelis and his team visited the 2nd Biennial of Sint-Niklaas. With his well-known critical stance towards the institutional management of art, Cornelis guides us through the open-air sculpture exhibition in the city park of Sint-Niklaas...

SUN IN YOUR HEAD

Wolf Vostell
'Sun in your Head' (1963, Fluxus Film Anthology, Fluxfilm no. 23) images' have been directly captured from a television screen with a film camera. The film upsets the canon of the experimental film which then prevailed. The film is neither personal nor abstract, but refers to something entirely impersonal like a television programme...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 2 : COB'HULK

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
In ‘Cob’Hulk’, Cowboy swallows a meteoroid, and every time he is antagonized, he undergoes a transformation and regresses in the evolution chain, as far as becoming a lizard. Fortunately, he spits out the meteoroid and becomes normal again...