COLLECTIE

VISUALAX

Axel Claes
A video-critique on the concept of exploring the world as being ‘Im Wunderkabinet der Kulturen’. This enchantment made of separations and exotisms is present in many actual urban narratives and alternative cultural work pieces. It is deeply rooted in 19th century Western concepts on the other. Every village slowly slides into the archipelago of cultures...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 60. THREE EXAMPLES

Steve Reinke
An example of mountains. An example of eclipse. An example of stones....

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...

Empty Head, Peter Finnemore, 2006. Courtesy the Artist

EMPTY HEAD

Peter Finnemore
In a wooden house interior, a cat is lying on a table, we recognize some elements of the artist camouflage like his hat and his sunglasses. Then, the artist enjoys to take away and put back his hat. By doing so, he discovers a disco ball that reflects the rays of lights: the cat doesn't seem to care about his joke....

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 5

Jacques Lennep
In the fifth part of this series of short sketches, Lennep continues to bring an homage to some of the most iconic artists of the 20th century...

DIE RUINEN VON EUROPA

Ira A. Goryainova
In a European union torn into several pro- and contra sides, facing a refugee crisis and in the same time the rise of the right, daily bombed by a plethora of opinions, fast food newsflashes and a continuous stream of images, a certain group of people resigns and looks at it all from the sidelines...

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

LES DOUBRES

Thomas Bernardet - Laurent Vicente - Aymeric de Tapol
Grinding, sliding, leaping: skateboarding is definitely the subject here. In February 2000, after reading the complete works of Baudrillard, two characters and a camera re-enact the practice in an indoor setting. Boardless, objectless skateboarding, detached from any specific site, except everyday life.Thus everyday places and objects may become spaces to be activated...

PROOF OF LIFE

Herman Asselberghs
The interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...

OCCUPIED

Peter Downsbrough
The film is shot entirely within the site of the Cité Administrative in Brussels. In an interview during the early stages of this project, Peter Downsbrough said : " I use film to introduce time within my observation. Its very unfolding makes film the ideal means to do this"...