COLLECTIE

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

PUB ESQUIMO

Hänzel & Gretzel
Pub Esquimo is a short pastiche that manipulates the fix image of a drawing of an eskimo girl who winks at us with colours and scratches. On top of this visual and sound manipulations, Hänzel & Gretzel addresses a special request, with an explicit and erotic inter-titles, to the eskimo girl that underlines her sensual appearance....

Long Live the New Flesh, 2009 Nicolas Provost © the artist(s) & producer(s)

LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH

Nicolas Provost
’Long Live the New Flesh’ deploys a technique in which the images literally consume one other and the horror in all its visual power is brought to a natural boiling point. All the ingredients that have secured Provost’s experimental art films their international success are once again present here...

IETS OP BACH

Sven Augustijnen
In ‘Iets op Bach’ (‘Something on Bach’), the performers of Les Ballets C. de la B., directed by Alain Platel, are having a party in their dance studio. Slowly it’s going out of control. The event is filmed through the windows of the dance studio, from the roof of the building on the other side of the street...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - CATALOGUE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin
Images of lamps with different shapes and colours. The sales representative makes it clear that the objects can be ordered through the catalogue. On the background bells resound and a telephone rings out....

MY BROTHER’S GARDENS

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...

OMNIUM GALLORUM FORTISSIME CANTANT BELGAE

Jan Vromman
A piece of the universe - in this case Belgium – is isolated in an aquarium in order to observe it more closely. And by the way, isn’t television sort of an aquarium? Two journeys are undertaken: one plunges us into the everyday reality of a typical Belgian café, while another takes us on a train ride exposing scenes of the Belgian landscape....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 58. MINNESOTA INVENTORY

Steve Reinke
I like mechanics magazines. I have a good appetite. I awake fresh and rested most mornings. There seems to be a lump in my throat much of the time. I enjoy detective or mystery stories....

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO

Trine Lise Nedreaas
Contrary to the title, Bill is dancing the tango on his own, leaving room in his arms for an imaginary partner. He seems comfortable alone, yet his open arms are an invitation to join him. The film can be seen as a metaphor for a lifetime. The journey we take through life we ultimately take on our own...

THE TABLE TURNING

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film "The Table Turning" we see a table supported by four tortoises. The tortoises struggle amongst themselves to set the table into motion...