COLLECTIE

THE VANISHING VANISHING-POINT

Effi Weiss - Amir Borenstein
Since autumn 2005 Effi and Amir have been following an olive tree that was planted in the Parc Leopold, a small and well-tended park at the feet of the European Parliament, and a few dozens of meters away from their apartment in Brussels. The Olive tree, as foreign as them, appeared in the park several weeks after their own arrival in this city...

SMALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE

Aay Liparoto
We are all in need of love and care...

AU BALCON DE TITI

Yasmina Benari
After 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...

BUCHAREST. THE CITY - ME

Alina Cristea
“Matei Visniec has once named one of his poetry books The City with One Inhabitant. This is how I always felt about Bucharest - as my city, even more so, the city - me” (Mircea Cartarescu).By using narrations to re-signify situations and events filtered through her individual and particular viewpoints, Alina Cristea aims to tell a story about Bucharest as she sees it...

Doelvaranasi, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

DOELVARANASI

Ria Pacquée

PROGRAM FOR A COLD PLACE

Edith Dekyndt
'Program for a cold place' took place in February 2000. People who never met participated in this temporary experience. The purpose was to film in the open air a domestic phenomenon: the explosion in low temperature conditions of containers filled with a liquid. The team went out from Winnipeg to install a laboratory up in the Canadian North, in minus 30°C weather...

THE CLOWN AND THE HOLE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
The theme of this video is the observation of a 'chantoir’, a popular expression designating a water hole in a prairie of which the terrain is composed of limestone. The action of the water on the lime contributes to the formation of holes of varying depths. The story presents a character that wonders about the origin of the hole and tries to communicate with it by playing the trumpet....

TWO TIMES

Manon de Boer
De Boer invited the Brussels-based pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps to play John Cage’s eponymous composition ‘4’33”’ twice in front of a live audience in the Brussels’ studio space of P.A.R.T.S. (The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios)...

50 TABLOTINS MUSIQUÉS

Joëlle de La Casinière
Joëlle de La Casinière's 'Les tablotins' are graphic illuminated poems; small paintings-poems. In a video, each one of the tablotins – digitized and enlarged 15 times on the screen – appears as a fixed shot with a soundtrack for about three minutes....

LE JEUNE ARTISTE BOUFFE

Claude Degueldre
"It’s delicious to devour those greasy substances that we have to absorb. We all know how wonderful it is to nourish oneself with culture, to drench oneself in knowledge and make a meal of it. So, licking my lips upon seeing so much to eat and drink, I put myself forward as young devouring artist." (Claude Degueldre)...