COLLECTIE

MOSCOW X

Ken Kobland
A camcorder diary and chronicle of public opinion filmed in Moscow during the fall of 1990, a time of huge political an economic changes in the former Soviet Union. The tape reveals Kobland’s own fascination with the diversity and complexity of the Russian’s reactions to such changes...

S.A.T.S. (SHORT AIRFIELD FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT)

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Sequence shot of a caged bear at the Barranquilla zoo in Colombia, while one of the Pisan Cantos is being quoted in Ezra Pound’s own voice....

UNDERVOICE

Manuela de Tervarent - Charley Case
Undervoice is a journey through the subterranean landscapes of our being. Based on a series of encounters, Charley Case and Manuela de Tervarent invite us to ask what moves us, from birth to death, what makes us pass through obscurity, to clear a path through our weaknesses and our dualities...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
Jef Cornelis made this portrait of the famous Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser in 1971, on the occasion of his exhibition ‘Linnen dozen, sneden en zware kalklijnschilderijen’ (‘Linen boxes, cuts and heavy chalk line paintings') in the Plus-Kern Art centre in Ghent, Belgium...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 22. IN THE REALM OF PERPETUAL EMBARRASSMENT

Steve Reinke
I am a machine which produces sentences. A fish is a machine that produces other fishes, usually of the same species....

CONTAINER

Messieurs Delmotte
A bottle of wine is hanging from the side of a container. It is pulled towards the opening of the container by an invisible thread. Seconds before reaching the hole, the bottle falls to the ground and shatters. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

UN DIMANCHE APRÈS-MIDI À 6H DU SOIR

Jacques Louis Nyst
In both 'La clé du paysage’ and ’Un dimanche après-midi à 6h du soir’ the spectator is in the position of the voyeur, spying Danièle Nyst through a window. In 'La clé du paysage’, Danièle Nyst is sitting in the garden, flipping through a magazine. Her image is cut up by the window frame...

1937

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MAGNÉTOSCOPE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
The androgyn-looking sales man in this video clip tries to sell the viewer a device that can record the sounds and images of every television....

IJSBREKER 01: PANAMARENKO

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The first Ijsbreker (’Icebreaker’) on water: a transmission, created before the eyes of the viewer, aspiring to tear down the high walls around the art world, breaking through the ready-made and brushed up ways of television at the same time. This edition evolves around the artist Panamarenko, speaking from his living laboratory in Antwerp...