COLLECTIE

THIS, OF COURSE, IS A WORK OF THE IMAGINATION

Wendy Morris
In 1917 the Steamship Mendi sailed towards the English Channel and France. On board was a battalion of South African labour troops. In the early morning, in fog, the ship was rammed by another boat and sinks within twenty minutes. 600 men drowned. A legend evolved around the last moments of the men and the manner in which they faced their death...

CAMERA OBSCURA

Michel Lorand
For ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera...

DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS

Messaline Raverdy
Starting from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives and language games...

CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN

Wim Catrysse
The work of Wim Cartrysse reveals a strong fascination with the human body and the way it relates to the environment. During his past as a theatre actor he discovered the possibilities and power of physical performance as a direct gateway into the spectator’s world of experience...

LAURIEN, MARCH 1996 - LAURIEN, SEPTEMBER 2001 - LAURIEN, OCTOBER 2007 - LAURIEN, JULY 2015

Manon de Boer
Began in 1996 Laurien is portrayed in three sessions, as indicated by the title dates. Each time, Laurien is asked to read a newspaper, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel of ± 2’30”. (Manon de Boer)...

BABY ELEPHANT

Sarah Vanagt
A seven-year-old boy talks to a little elephant in the basement of the Africa Museum in Tervuren (Brussels)....

STILL FROM AFAR

Eva van Tongeren
An audiovisual dialogue between the filmmaker and a convicted sex offender. In Still from afar, Eva van Tongeren translates a months-long correspondence between the convicted and incarcerated pedophile Thomas and herself into an audiovisual monologue. The correspondence forces them to adjust their thoughts to the rhythm of each other's letters...

SLOW OBJECT 05

Edith Dekyndt
An object slowly goes up and down against a neutral background. Is it an air bubble in a transparent liquid? Or a balloon floating in the greyish-white sky? Edith Dekyndt does not disclose what the filmed object actually is. Like all other videos by Dekyndt, this short work causes us to become fascinated by the small, the unspeakable, the almost intangible...

THE HOUSES THAT ARE LEFT

Shelly Silver
"The Houses That Are Left is a story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead...

IJSBREKER 14: LITERAIRE TIJDSCHRIFTEN

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
During the beginning of the eighties there were about eighty different literary magazines in Flanders, even though in the overall picture renowned editors and authors were few and far between. This episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ came about following the creation of two new magazines from the ashes of the Nieuw Vlaams Tijdschrift: the Nieuw Wereldtijdschrift (NWT) and Diogenes...