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...

SURFACE NOISE

Inneke Van Waeyenberghe
'Surface noise’ is about being constantly on the surface of something or someone when one doesn’t know intimacy, when one keeps forgetting intimacy and the body and is consequently forced to discover it over and over again. It’s about the relationship between intimacy and the not knowing of body language and body codes...

PERFORMING THE BORDER

Ursula Biemann
’Performing the Border’ is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across the border from El Paso, Texas. ’Performing the Border’ looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations...

C'EST MAGNIFIQUE

Jen Debauche
C’est magnifique, how cassette tapes have changed our lives! Footage of glorious parties and happy people of all ages follow fish-eye image recordings of radio towers. Flirting skirts, tattooed skin and the sun shining through the evergreens show us an effortless joie de vivre.     ...

NEDERLANDSE ARCHITECTUUR. HET NIEUWE BOUWEN 1920 - 1940

Jef Cornelis
A short reflection on Dutch architecture between 1920 and 1940, following and based on an exhibition in the van Abbe museum in Eindhoven. The period of the so-called ‘new building’, with such prominent figures as Rietveld Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, evolved around an architecture which took the critical issue of the living environment as a starting point...

MUSIC AT NIGHT

Steve Reinke
Piano practice, road kill, ice cave. Daffodils. The night is exactly like the day only less obvious. Shot and narrated by Dani Leventhal, written and edited by Steve Reinke....

TALAEEN A JUNUUB / UP TO THE SOUTH

Jayce Salloum - Walid Raad
This documentary examines consequences of and forms of resistance to the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon as well as how such issues are (mis)represented in the West. The film is a close examination of ideas and figures that have become tied to the region: terrorism, colonialism, occupation, resistance, collaboration and experts/leaders...

ONCE UPON A TIME

Emilio López-Menchero
When Gery van Tendeloo, the president of the association of collectors Liebaert Projects, proposed to give the city of Courtrai to Emilio López-Menchero, the artist immediately recalled that the city is known as the Texas of Flanders, but he also thought about Morris, the auteur of the comics series Lucky Luke...

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

EUROPLEX

Ursula Biemann - Angela Sanders
’Europlex’, made in collaboration with visual anthropologist Angela Sanders, is a video which looks at the Spanish-Moroccan borderlands. What we can call the border there is not a linear formation...