COLLECTIE

SITUATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A moving camera takes us along an endless row of cash registers in a desolate supermarket. The cashiers are waiting behind their empty desks and it’s quiet as a mouse… The contrast between the inert location on the one side, chaotic and lively in normal circumstances, and the moving camera on the other, makes this absurd sequence into a kind of dream image...

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 3

Jacques Lennep
Jacques Lennep renews his fascination for the use of video with this series of short sketches, often recordings of performances. In this part, he pays amongst others homage to Marcel Broodthaers, Auguste Rodin and René Magritte....

MEETING FLORCHEN GORDON

Grace Schwindt
In this work, the artist’s grandfather remembers meeting his Jewish neighbour in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. He tells this story while iluustrating it with a drawing....

FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE

Jan Bucquoy
February 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...

VERSION ORIGINALE01

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Two Japanese actors read passages from ‘L’Empire des signes’ by Roland Barthes. His structural meditations on specific aspects of oriental culture – in this case specifically on the Japanese language and kitchen – are illustrated and substantiated by an entanglement of words, writing and image...

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 5

Jacques Lennep
In the fifth part of this series of short sketches, Lennep continues to bring an homage to some of the most iconic artists of the 20th century...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: MELODRAMA

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
In a marginal urban trailer park, a hungry pig eats a newborn baby, while the mother is away. Through a peeping hole a woman is singing about this horrible fait-divers. Images of babies and pigs are projected on the background....

L'ANIMATION À L'ÈRE DES MÉDIAS

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Enrique Ariman reads from an essay by futurist artist Derrick de Kerckhove, on the cultural and social impact of the electronic media. Inspired by the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, de Kerckhove describes a new electronic reality, in which television plays a central part. At the same time the visual language also reflects on television, his visual language and genealogy...

FABERMU

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot - Camille Fallet
A collaborative video of Thomas Bernadardet co-directed with Camille Fallet and Florent Mulot. For an exhibition in the Galerie du Tableau in Marseille, each of them brought 100 photographies in digital format and 1 printed photography...

FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING

Els Dietvorst
A documentary film about Dietvorst's project 'The return of the swallows', which started in 1999 in the Anneessens district, close to the South station of Brussels. Fascinated by this 'transit' neighbourhood and the local population, the artist started a new project...