COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)
Steve ReinkeThe artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues and songs are largely improvised....
TILAPIA
Crispin YanisiA boy who tries to get in touch with his culture through a specific fish and learn more about its history but is faced with the fact that he does not master his mother tongue. ...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 27. DISTURBED SLEEP
Steve ReinkeWe may all see patients who complain of fatigue and ask us to help them get rid of the insomnia which they feel causes it....
LE REFUGE
Nadia TouijerIn the outskirts of the Tunisian capital there is the graveyard of Jallez. Every day long silhouettes dwell about this immense place, looking for a job and some hope. This documentary develops into a serene reflection of a place where shadows rule, of small life in a place of death...
THE TRAVELOGUE SERIES
Stefaan DecostereIn 1979, Stefaan Decostere took on his job with the BRTN. Ever since that moment he is considered as one of the most innovative television-makers. With new image forms Decostere explores mostly complex ideas. His five-piece The Travelogue Series is generally considered as the magnum opus of his oeuvre...
MADE IN BELGIUM
Vincent MeessenMade 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...
ALLEZ LES ZÈBRES ! (HOMMAGE À EZIO BUCCI)
Jacques LennepIn the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his « Musée de l’homme», a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...
La scene à lieu derriere le stade d'action, 2006, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA SCÈNE À LIEU DERRIÈRE LE STADE D'ACTION
Angel VergaraThe text to which the title is referring is a text by the French writer and painter Novarina, which the poet recites here. At the beginning and end of the movie, ’O Superman’ by Laurie Anderson is heard...
L'AUTEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
BUENOS AIRES
Jef CornelisBuenos Aires, Baires or B.A., where the corridors of the National Bank were once piled high with heaps of gold, is trying to awaken from a number of simultaneous nightmares (the colonels’ regime, inflation, terror). The visual artist César Paternosto (La Plata, 1931) left Baires in 1964, because he felt he was banging his head, like a balloon, on the ceiling...
