COLLECTIE

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): COMPOSITION TRIANGULAIRE

Jacques Lennep
A short formal study on triangular images, shot in the woods and featuring the artist as a performer. The work is conceptual: the camera 'scans' the surroundings showing triangles formed by the legs of the artist, the branches of a tree, a stone, etcetera....

KOREAN STUDIES

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Filmed data of a journey in South Korea as far as the border with Nort Korea; a set of space scenes heightened by special effects.Square white line, red rectangle-frame, blue curve, pink angle, black mobile-point... The effect precedes the action, follows a movement, takes a speed, a colour, from one or other of the elements making up the scene... The effect lends tone, the image is activated...

OH DEAR …

Nicolas Provost
A short yet moving story about innocence set against the background of a go-kart track. ’Oh dear...’ is a one-minute film commissioned by the International Filmfestival Rotterdam....

KAIROS - COMPENDIUM ON THE FUTURE OF TIME

Alexis Destoop
An exhibition version of the film "KAIROS". It was first presented during the 2012 Biennale of Sydney"All Our Relations". Stripping away character and plot from the longer cinema version, it focuses on the speculative universe developed for the film and highlights the background narrative as laid out by different voice-overs...

Everybody, 2009, Steve Reinke and Jessie Mott © the artists

EVERYBODY

Steve Reinke - Jessie Mott
Steve Reinke never shrinks from exploring fears and desires, and ’Everybody’ is no exception. The video is disconcertingly simple, consisting of a number of crudely drawn animals, roughly and luridly coloured. As these animals move their mouths, voice-overs speak of bodily fluids, pain and disgust in a matter-of-fact manner, the strange made ordinary by the vocal performances...

VASCULUM

Pieter Geenen
In speaking about what's far, exotic and unknown lies what's close and familiar. vasculum turns to the central region of the province of Limburg in Flanders, Belgium. The artist's own native land. In the twentieth century it was known for its coal mining. Here it finds itself between appearing and disappearing, between the utopian and the dystopian, amidst efforts of preservation...

THE SURRENDER OF BREDA

Luc Gobyn
Inspired by the painting of Diego Velasquez, ‘The Surrender of Breda’, an image of the mayor of Cuéllar before the start of the bullrunning....

FRANÇOIS

Sven Augustijnen
’François’ constitutes, along with the film ’Johan’, a purely documentary portrait of patients with aphasia. François, a middle-aged man, suffers from aphasia – memory lapses – and he has trouble finding the right words for simple expressions. In order to train his memory he undergoes various treatments in a hospital, among them speech therapy...

LA DEUXIÈME NUIT

Eric Pauwels
On the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship with her: a relationship that made him a free individual, as a man and as a filmmaker...

KOEN THEYSLAND

Koen Theys
In 2008, video artist Walter Verdin was asked by CANVAS, a Belgian public TV network, to make a daily opener for the channel, to be broadcasted just before the 8 o’clock news. He proposed to use excerpts of his Title Safe project (link: www.titlesafe.be), which was a cooperation with many other video artists, amongst who Koen Theys...