COLLECTIE

SILVERLEAF

Adam Leech
Adam Leech produces videos with a narrative touch. The protagonists of these stories are usually archetypical inhabitants of ‘the American suburbia’ we are familiar with from countless television series. Their preferred pastimes are shopping, parties and interior design - in short, everything that has to do with the aestheticization of the everyday...

FAIRE-PART

Anne Reijniers - Rob Jacobs - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Paul Shemisi Betutua
On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineasts make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story...

THEN, Peter Downsbrough, 2008 © the artist & producer

THEN

Peter Downsbrough
THEN is a video project filmed in and around San Francisco. The camera moves with the traffic on the Bay Bridge, which is the longest high-level, steel bridge in the world...

TAROT-SUTRA

Laurence Vray - Charley Case - Bouchra Moutaharik

BAYINDO

Paul Shemisi Betutua
In a story about traditional medicine, spirituality, and decolonization, Bayindo takes us to Kinshasa in the DR Congo. The film dives into the heart of the animist community "Kintuadi Tuka Kongo", a group that attempts to restore the customs and the ancestral faiths destroyed by the arrival of the missionaries and colonizers....

FRIDAY FISHDAY

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...

HORAIZON

Meggy Rustamova
Horaizon is an experimental film moderating between photography, moving image and sound. The title is referring to the English phonetic pronunciation of the world horizon. The film is shot in different locations throughout the world. The horizons, sunsets and weather conditions between these places form the common thread throughout the film...

UN PIED DANS LE JARDIN DE MIEL

Bernard Mulliez
Within the framework of Europalia Europa festival (2007-2008), the CIVA in partnership with a supermarket group organized an exhibition called Supermarkets of Europe 1957-2007 in La Cambre Architecture School.Initially a mere financial supporter, the trade group became the very object of the exhibition, which illustrates the final outcome of the privatization of the cultural public services...

LOOKING DOWN

Bernard Gigounon
A ship, filmed from above, is slowly moving through the image: the bow, the deck, and the metal cover plates. As soon as the camera arrives at the load, however, consisting of sand and stones, something weird happens: the load turns into a Martian landscape, it seems as if the camera is transforming into a satellite, exploring some barren planet...

CAT FOOD WOMAN

Alison Murray
A parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...