COLLECTIE

ACHTERBERG CONVERSION MODULES

Steve Reinke
Staying in Utrecht for a residency at Impakt Foundation, the artist observes from his first floor apartment Dutch football fans as they go World Cup crazy. He puts himself to work and uses a Dutch-English dictionary to translate some poems written by Gerrit Achterberg...

OPEN ]ING

Peter Downsbrough
The camera explores a port area and progresses along the sand or gravel mounds. Between two static shots on a double drawbridge downtown and traveling shots, Downsbrough shoots in black&white and dissects this architectonic space: a film about the juxtaposition, separation and collection of elements.  ...

GARDENING

Hans Op de Beeck
This B/W animation film offers a perspective on an evolving landscape drawn in pencil. The artist is invisible to us, and tries to tame the landscape into highly singular gardens by shaping nature, manipulating, destroying and reviving it. The spectator sees how the author works out a train of thought in a remarkable vocabulary....

THE STEWARTS HAVE A PARTY

Hans Op de Beeck
The Stewarts are a carefully cast fictitious family. The various members appear and disappear in an empty white room, like life-sized marionettes dressed in white. As is customary in the sub-genre of marionette theatre, they are manipulated by black-clothed puppeteers who are part of the set entourage: production assistants, a makeup girl and a hair stylist...

SCRUB SOLO 1: SOLONELINESS

Antonin De Bemels
Scrub Solo 1: ’Soloneliness’ is the first film experiment between Antonin De Bemels and choreographer Bud Blumenthal. A dancer facing a mirror, in a fixed frame, tries to catch his own reflection, the body incessantly turning round on itself. At times there is no more than an abstraction of white light, while at others his hand seems to pass through the mirror...

YEMMA (MA MÈRE)

Jen Debauche
As an ode to the song “Yemma” (My Mother), performed by Moroccan musician Ikhalf,  Jen Debauche registered the timeless poetics of desert life. Ikhalf plays the Loutar and sings his song on a mountaintop, while looking over his traditional Moroccan village, where human and nature thrive harmoniously under the burning sun....

LEWITT HESSE RICHARD SILVER

Frances Richard - Shelly Silver
The assignment was to make a gift for the artist Sol Lewitt (1927-2007). Legendarily generous to other artists, Lewitt exchanged works with anyone who sought him out, from famous peers to admirers who sent him unsolicited objects and images. Filmmaker Shelly Silver asked her close friend, writer Frances Richard, to collaborate by contributing text for a short film...

DE ZEGE VAN DE SLANG / LE TRIOMPHE DU SERPENT

Jan Vromman
An ode to simplicity. In this video the universe is reduced to the limits of a terrarium. But since the setting is rather barren and the beast so solitary, God separates the sky from the earth and populates the world with animals and plants. But then he commits a grave error by installing men in the centre of this universe, because before one notices, hell itself brakes loose....

TROU

Michel François
A close-up on two hands as they try to dig a hole in the ground. The speed of the video is accelerated which gives a nervous tension, enforced by the sound, to this seemingly neverending task....

EXPLODING MIRRORS

Hänzel & Gretzel
Gerard Malanga (The Bronx, 1943) is a poet, photographer, filmmaker and he was a major influence on many of the paintings and films created in Andy Warhol's studio, known as The Factory...