COLLECTIE

AND THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since the immemorial the Papuans have perceived the world of the rich Westerners as a sort of heaven. In their encounters both Papuans and Westerners have focused upon obtaining the riches of the other culture...

HET KONINKLIJK PALEIS, ANTWERPEN, ICC

Jef Cornelis
For the exhibition The Royal Palace - Builders and Inhabitants that took place in the former Royal Palace in 1970 at the Meir in Antwerp, Jef Cornelis delivers a short but unconventional documentary film. The original 18th century building used to provide accommodation to important rulers such as Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Willem I of the Netherlands (1772-1843) and the Belgian Royal House...

Law of the Jungle, Peter Finnemore, 2004. Courtesy the Artist

LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Peter Finnemore
A sunny day. A spider rests in the centre of his spider web, but the artist slowly gets closer and closer till he can eat it: is human-being taking over nature?...

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...

appendix iv: territory, Jayce Salloum, 2007-2009 © the artist & producer

APPENDIX IV: TERRITORY

Jayce Salloum
This work is either projected or shown on a large flat screen monitor in a corner. It assembles about 30 minutes footage shot at the occasion of the realization of untitled part 5: this video documents the insightful accounts of the Indigenous First Nations people in Western Canada...

PARADE

Hans Op de Beeck
Parade is an art video staged by Hans Op de Beeck on the scene of a theatre. The red velvet curtain opens, a slow waltz, composed especially for this film, starts playing, while a seemingly endless cavalcade of people comes walking by, in slow motion, like a stream of passers-by in a street...

OUR CITY

Maria Tarantino
This is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of bureaucracy, lies the Brussels that still breathes...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 65. MURIEL

Steve Reinke
I remember when he took me to the fair. I put on ribbons and my prettiest dress....

WARBURGBALLETTEN

Koen Theys
'Warburgballetten' was inspired by the life and work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929). It is an homage to this founder of iconography. The image is divided in two parts: a smaller one on the left, with figures from (mainly) renaissance paintings; and a bigger part on the right, with figures from propaganda posters that were made during World War I...

Le Centre et La Classe, 1970, Boris Lehman © the artist

LE CENTRE ET LA CLASSE

Boris Lehman
The PMS (Psychological, Medical and Social) Centres measure and facilitate the development of schoolchildren in Belgium. This film, commissioned by the Ministry for National Education, demonstrates the methods adopted with children in the sixième (around 10-11 years), through their medical, academic and other assessments and the processes for identifying and addressing any problems...