COLLECTIE

WALKER, LA CITÉ RADIEUSE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is the Beta version of the “Walker” series, the first attempt at documentation of an architecture by two cameramen using the same camera. Experimenting the building as they stroll through it, they improvise an in-situ film scenario...

DANS LA MAISON (DU MONTFAUCON RESEARCH CENTER)

Joëlle de La Casinière
Without trying to explain or comment upon the images, the film Dans la Maison (du Montfaucon Research Center) aims simply at bringing to view documents surrounding the person of Sophie Podolski within the Montfaucon Research Center in Brussels, from 1969 until 1973. Podolski was a frequent visitor of the house  over the timespan of these five years...

Something about today, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2008 © the artist & producer

SOMETHING ABOUT TODAY

Mekhitar Garabedian
Against a background of orchestral music by Sibelius, photographic images are presented with the colour drained. At first the screen seems to be one solid block of cream, but slowly some colour is faded in, providing outlines of shapes. As the viewer ascertains the outline of buildings, words are imposed over the image - a contents page is slowly provided...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS °1924

Jef Cornelis
On September 27th 1968, the Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924 – 1976) opened his fictional Musée d’Art Moderne – Département des Aigles, Section XIXème Siècle (“Museum of Modern Art, Eagles Department, Section of the 19th Century”) in his house in Brussels, Rue de la Pépinière...

EGO SUMO VERSION 1 (2003)

Emilio López-Menchero
In 2003, López-Menchero was invited by the curator Madeleine Santandréa to show a new work in the Galerie –1 at CIVA, in Brussels. In this context, the artist showed a series of drawing called Tussen tussen ou l’entre-deux that employed the Indian ink technique...

LA SCALA

Aglaia Konrad
Modernist architecture is the subject of Aglaia Konrad’s 16mm films but rather than – and beyond – a form of architecture on film, or film on architecture, what her films propose is an investigation into the potential for film to embody the experience of architecture as sculpture...

CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON

Charley Case
The DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...

L'HOMME QUI MARCHE

Philippe de Pierpont
A fictional character walks through the half of Belgium, from the centre of Brussels to De Panne at the seaside. On his way he meets 'real' people from everyday that show their everyday environments. In this documentary, de Pierpont uses fictional techniques in order to create a subjective portrait of the north of Belgium, and its inhabitants in 1992....

ORIENTATION

Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat
Looking at two locations— the public sculpture White Square commemorating the founders of Tel Aviv, and the shrine of Palestinian village Salame in today’s Israeli Kafar Shalem—Orientation focuses on the ability of architectural material, and of sound and image, to register collective experience. In 1989, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, completed his sculpture White Square...

FORMULA FROG WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Luc Gobyn
A video animation, evolving around 26 brightly coloured frogs in starting formation for the Grand Prix of Belgium....