COLLECTIE

BLENDER

Hans Op de Beeck
The video opens with a view of a deserted carousel. After a pause, the carousel slowly begins to turn, spinning faster and faster, the horses and the carriages blending into a single image, which blurs and disappears as the speed increases. As the speed decreases, the image of the carousel reappears and the fairground ride comes to a standstill. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

VIETNAM ROMANCE

Eddo Stern
Much like Stern’s ’Sheik Attack’ (2000), ’Vietnam Romance’ (2003) is compiled from the sources available on the computer desktop environment - games, graphics and music...

TAROT-SUTRA

Laurence Vray - Charley Case - Bouchra Moutaharik

HET SCHILDERIJ DAT ROND DE ZON WOU DRAAIEN

Luc Gobyn
A painter caught between art, philosophy and a strong inclination towards science and drinking is involved in a struggle with the means of expression. Nonetheless determined to find a language allowing him to express himself appropriately, he impulsively jumps on a plane. In a new landscape he realises he is free to tell what he wants, anyway he wants...

GROUND SHOOTING

Emilio López-Menchero
In Ground shooting, Emilio López-Menchero walks around Brussels National Airport and records the floor of the airport. The artist is interested to combine the reflexions of the ceiling spotlights – visible on the floor – with the official multi-language announcements which prevent the passengers about the risks of forgetting baggages in the airport area....

TALAEEN A JUNUUB / UP TO THE SOUTH

Jayce Salloum - Walid Raad
This documentary examines consequences of and forms of resistance to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon as well as how such issues are (mis)represented in the West. The film is a close examination of ideas and figures that have become tied to the region: terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance, collaboration and experts/leaders...

LA FIN DU MONDE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep adds a tiny extra to Gustave Courbet’s famous Origin of the World....

AND TO

Peter Downsbrough
We don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...

LE BUFFET AUX TROIS COULEURS

Jacques Lennep
One after the other, Lennep eats a plate of sausages, a plate of goat’s cheese and a piece of cake. Each time he wears a mask suitable for the “meal”....

THE TASTE OF KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’The Taste of Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...