COLLECTIE

SECOND-HAND EXPERIENCE 02

Edith Dekyndt
The 'Second hand experiences' are an uncompleted series of film installations, reinterpreting movements from childhood. In 'Second-hand experiences 02', Dekyndt handles an embroidery floss and builds a square loop which she keeps on shaping and reshaping with her hands...

Gonzalez 2, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GONZALEZ 2

Angel Vergara
Black and white images illustrate the term of office of the Spanish prime minister Felipe González Márquez, who was prime minister of Spain from the end of 1982 until 1996. With his brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images, while he and the images are behind a glass screen. Sometimes the brush moves across the glass, leaving paint sweeps behind...

THE PERFECT WAVE

Nicolas Provost
The Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....

MADE IN BELGIUM

Vincent Meessen
Made in Belgium has a double nature. It’s a work in itself but it’s also a silent preview for a film that doesn’t yet exist and may never exist. That’s why the protagonist, played by Laurent Flamand, is but a torch-bearer of another hidden story...

VITA NOVA

Vincent Meessen
In his famous essay Mythologies (1957), Roland Barthes demystified the French colonial imperialism by means of a photograph that appeared on the cover of Paris-Match. This picture, that became an icon of modern criticism, shows a colonial cadet on guard.Vita Nova unveils the biographical ghost underneath the surface of this mythical picture...

EPILOGUE

Michel Lorand
’Epilogue’ begins with the technical introduction, the classic ‘countdown’ seen at the start of movies. The title then appears, followed by a white film, devoid of image. It is a blank film, but not clean. A woman’s voice reads out a claustrophobic text about memory and remembering...

VIVA

Karen Vanderborght
This film seems to be an ode to the free fall. It is moreover a mortuary cinematic card made by Vanderborght for a friend who jumped from his balcony in the village where he was born. So the memory of this village, this paradisiacal holiday resort of the filmmakers’ childhood, became more vacant than ever....

HERE

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...’) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004)...

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...

DE BOUCHE À OREILLE

Claudio Pazienza
The pilot ’De bouche à oreille’ is an anthropological urban essay. It describes an environment and an era through its collection of proverbs, songs, recitations, dreams, tags, gestures, sounds, etc. Each episode should allow a researcher from the year 3000 to see and understand what we are made of....