COLLECTIE

PAUL JOOSTENS

Jef Cornelis
A report on the artist Paul Joostens, his drawings and paintings and his relationship with his friend Raoul Thiriard. Images of Dadaist collages, constructions and figurative painting in the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp....

AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)

Steve Reinke
The 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....

LOSS

Hans Op de Beeck
The work of Hans op de Beeck always breathes an atmosphere of profound emptiness. Characters, without words and totally alienated, stride through desolate landscapes and situations, out of which all hope seems to have leaked away. This is a world, seemingly lavished in the acid of everyday life, drenched in the liquid of loss...

HIER WOONT MIJN HUIS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven pays tribute to her parents’ house that has recently been obtained by an Antwerp theatre. This film is about Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s incapacity to undergo changes over which she has no control. In making this video, she exorcised nostalgia and grief by sharing it...

POLITIE

Luc Deleu
In the short film ’Politie’ Deleu follows around different types of police men, while they are performing their tasks. From another car the artist films a police van driving around and supervising the streets. A police officer is handing out tickets, while another one is regulating the traffic. On a highway two police men are on the scene of an accident with a truck...

VANITY

Vincent Dunoyer
In Vanity, Vincent Dunoyer dances with a small camera that registers his movements. When he leaves the stage, images of his dance are projected—a memory of what we have just seen...

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....

Atomium In/Out, 2006, Marie-Françoise Plissart © the artist

ATOMIUM IN/OUT

Marie-Françoise Plissart
Designed by engineer André Waterkeyn and built by architects André and Jean Polack for the 1958 World Exhibition of Brussels, a molecule of iron, enlarged 165 billion times, was chosen to represent the science of the future. Once a symbol of collective utopia, the Atomium is today a monument with a life of its own...

PAPERS

Yun Tien
For migrants documents are essential. They determine if you can stay or have to go back. I was wondering how much documents we need to cross a border? I film administrative documents from different people. It’s their paper story about applying for a foreign residence....

COLOURS

Hans Op de Beeck
‘Colours’ shows a series of portraits in a loop. The first images are static, and the shots are as elaborate as paintings. Detailed colour and frame compositions reinforce the ties with painting. But then there is movement, the blinking of an eye, and the immobility that follows it gets a whole new meaning....