COLLECTIE

SHOW

Luc Deleu
’Show’ is an experimental documentary about an exhibition of young painters and an audio-visual show for the school ’Koninklijk Atheneum’. The video begins with recording, at double speed, of a meeting between Deleu and the other artists at the TOP Office. The artists drive round the school, still shooting images. On the playground an installation is being erected...

BOUWEN IN BELGIË

Jef Cornelis
A documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...

HOME MOVIES

Vito Acconci
The autobiographical film ‘Home Movies’ reveals the psychological circuit that Acconci weaves into many of his works. It is a meta-document in which Acconci presents his work in chronological order from 1969. Seated in the dark with his back to the cameral and his face to the screen, he projects slides of earlier works...

VIDÉO HEBDO 20

Claude Cattelain
A dandelion loses all its seeds, then it magically recovers them....

EEN DICHTER IN TEXAS, H.C. TEN BERGE

Jef Cornelis
The Dutch poet H.C. Ten Berge is closely followed during a stay of several weeks in Texas. Ten Berge goes on the lookout for an image of this American state which nullifies the stereotypical one, closely connected to the popular TV-series ‘Dallas’...

Vas-y mon Ange toi aussi tu en as une belle, 1988 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

STRAATMAN

Angel Vergara
Straatman is Angel Vergara Santiago’s alter ego. Straatman sits in a tent – an art camp tent – or underneath a white canvas on the street, drawing and painting, talking to spectators or recording their comments and surrounding sounds. However, at the same time he seems to be totally introverted...

Meschak, Laone et Michel, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MESCHAK, LAONE ET MICHEL

Angel Vergara
Meschak Gaba responds negatively when asked whether art, freedom and artists are synonyms, because one does not have to be an artist in order to be free. He confirms that he is an artist, "because I am no artist", followed by a laugh. Laone answers, "yes and no". Artists are free to say and abstain from what they want...

RUE DE L'AVENIR

Philippe Van Damme
Van Damme’s main preoccupation seems to be time, or better: the visualisation of time. For ’Rue de l’Avenir’ he uses 45 photos of a straight track or (re)construction: the track for a new subway line in Molenbeek (Brussels). The editing moves up and down among this mutilated city-space: a witty study on time and the changing environment...

KITSCH GILLO DORFLES

Jef Cornelis
The opening shot of this short film from the series Zoeklicht (Search light) shows the cover of the book Kitsch - An anthology of bad taste (first published in Italian in 1968, translated in English in 1970) by the Italian art critic, painter and philosopher Gillo Dorfles (°1910)...

FACE À FACE (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)

Eric Pauwels
‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...