COLLECTIE

FACE OF THE EARTH

Vito Acconci
The face of the artist is filmed in extreme close-up, from his chin to the top of his head. Filling the screen, Acconci’s head comprises the theatre for a crumbly narrative about a personal past. His actions and words serve as a metaphor for the mythical American landscape; his personal memories likewise tell of a collective drama – the early days of recent American history...

WIDEAWAKE

Orla Barry
Language, in written as well as in spoken form, constitutes the essence of Orla Barry’s work. She ties words into phrases, kneads sentences into paragraphs, ending up with a visual as well as verbal unity, an apparently non-structured stream-of-consciousness with an open and poetical structure. The monologue in ’Wideawake’ is performed by Caroline Donnely...

ELEMENTS

Laurence Vray - Charley Case - Bouchra Moutaharik
‘Elements’ is the result of the collaboration between the artists Charley Case, Bouchra Moutaharik and Laurence Vray. A shot of a wood lighted by a torch mingles with the sound of leaves and twigs cracking under footsteps. This image that so strongly appeals to the imagination gradually changes into an eerie face...

MARTIAL M

Edith Dekyndt
Two hands each equipped with a magnet handle with care the iron dust that forms made right and left are symmetrical with each other. Revealed as in a mirror, forms are duplicated and in turn evoke the sea urchin, the bug or chestnut fur. The event takes place on a small scale in both hands over and refers to both terrestrial poles generating the magnetic field....

VIDÉO HEBDO 37

Claude Cattelain
A reflection about the fact of spinning around....

NOTHING !

Messieurs Delmotte
A video-installation that was produced at the occasion of Brugge 2002 cultural capital of Europe. We see a suite of short sequences shot in the touristic centre of Bruges...

WHAT DOES SHE SEE WHEN SHE SHUTS HER EYES?

Karen Vanderborght
A surrealistic whim, an experimentally shot initiation into life’s’ imagination. Moa, a home-sitter, kills the ‘why’s’ in people’s lives. From a filmmaker who destroys films, she receives a camera to record her many experiences...

VROUW IN DE STRAAT

Karen Vanderborght
A video collage with running texts, that quote influent female artists, and juxtapositions of home moving style footages, still images and an inventory of Brussels cinematographic memories. The result is a conversation with three generations of godmothers, pictured under the influence of the first two feminist waves.  ...

THE STREET

Jef Cornelis
The street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...

RECUPERATIE-REÏNTEGRATIE

Raoul Van den Boom
A video recording of photographs, made by Van den Boom, of disposable articles and packages that were recycled. The intention of recycling is to give new purposes to objects that were meant to be used only once. A male voice-over and steel drum music accompany the images. Recycling for non-artistic uses mostly takes place in the Third World and in the margins of Western cities...