COLLECTIE

The Eternal Frame, Ant Farm, 1975. Courtesy Electronic Art Intermix (EAI), New York

THE ETERNAL FRAME

Ant Farm - T.R. Uthco
The Eternal Frame is an examination of the role that the media plays in the creation of (post)modern historical myths. For T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm, the iconic event that signified the ultimate collusion of historical spectacle and media image was the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963...

DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN MR. KROLL

Harald Thys
With his partner, Mr Kroll collects scrap metal along the road. He is very surprised to see what people throw away. In his workshop he tinkers with the broken parts he has found. In the meantime a voice-over relates how the same Mr Kroll has brutally mutilated and murdered a number of young girls....

PERFORMANCE METRO MEIR

Ria Pacquée
As the title indicates, this video is a recording of a performance that Pacquée did together with Danny Devos in 1979. Standing on the lowest metro platform, Pacquée is on a small wooden square. With white duck tape she has made a bigger square around it, of which she keeps on enlarging the edges with new pieces of tape...

I LOVE MARIE DE CORTE

Marc Vanrunxt - Robert Cash
Fragments of a dance performance by Marie de Corte. The solemn music and the darkness of the images create a haunting atmosphere....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 47. DREAM WORK

Steve Reinke
We have been encouraged to analyse our sexless dreams as being latently sexual, full of repressed writhing bodies and blood-gorged organs. This project, this analysis is referred to as dream work. It assumes latent though is transformed by the processes of condensation and displacement into the manifest content of the dream...

ATTICA

Manon de Boer
In collaboration with several musicians, de Boer staged a performance for camera of Frederic Rzewski’s 1972 composition ‘Attica’ as well as the related work, ‘Coming Together’, also composed in 1972. Rzewski, who was living in New York at the time, composed ‘Attica’ in a circular structure of euphoric crescendo and denouement...

LIFE ON MARS

Isabelle Nouzha
A grotesque universe of outrageous characters and sinister places, with references to all kinds of horror classics: “The moon holds control over every one, death is lurking in the woods, a doctor is carrying out his experiments, a girl is infected by hungry teeth…”...

STUDY OF GESTURES

Eva Giolo
Two hands fold meticulously and gently caress a shirt. Study of gestures is an exploration of a cultural heritage, traces and resurgences through gestures. The evocations of body memory, conscious or unconscious....

MY NAME IS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

Steve Reinke
This is the atomic age; the material itself must be part of the creative act. One no longer forms a given material, one must also create the material.” Loosely adapted from interviews Stockhausen gave in the late 60s and early 70s. Vera Frenkel voices the composer. DNA structures, molecular life and astral projections fuse in synesthetic visions rooted in aurality....

CONTAINER 08: OVER DON JUAN

Jef Cornelis
A discussion on the figure and myth of Don Juan, which originates in three different sources: the original version by Tirso de Molina from 1630, the version by Molière from 1665, and the libretto and opera by Mozart and da Ponte from 1787. Even among these versions there are considerable variants regarding the characters, the personalities, intrigues and endings...