COLLECTIE

EFFEN SPIEGEL VAN EEN STILLE STROOM

Lili Dujourie
The first frame shows an empty interior. On the left there are a brightly lit surface and a mantel support on the floor; to the right stands a female figure clothed in shirt and jeans. The scale and perspective seem skewed, and it is not until she moves out of the visual field that we notice that the right half of the screen is a mirror reflecting the space behind the camera...

Aubier & Patar, UFO's boven Geel, 1999. © the artists

UFO'S BOVEN GEEL

Vincent Patar - Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Tavier
This documentary revolves around Alfons De Joncker and his plans to build flying saucers. Former pupils of the Technical School in Geel, Belgium, talk about this project. First De Joncker built a tele-conducted car. By 1962 he worked together with the students at some non-navigable flying saucers that flew above the Kempen until they ran out of fuel...

CHRYSALIDE

Patrick Bernatchez
Chrysalide, for its part, unfolds in a circular travelling movement around a black BMW parked in the basement garage and slowly filling with water. A businessman sits at the wheel, serenely smoking a cigarette as the water level rises. The film ends with water bursting through the doors and windows of the car, saving the protagonist from certain death....

POLYFONISTEN DEEL 1

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

THE STREETTAPES

Els Dietvorst
These tapes are an impression of the 'live'-rehearsals for The return of the swallows in July 2002 at the Anneessens square in Brussels. These 'live'-rehearsals were an important turning point in the project. All the actors saw each other for the first time. They were assigned to stay in character whatever happened and to challenge each other by improvising...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 41. PIONEER

Steve Reinke
Recently I attended my maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary. I became a little sad thinking how a fully articulated spectrum of sexual pleasure had been denied to them....

THEME SONG

Vito Acconci
In ‘Theme Song’ Acconci most effectively plays-on the dynamic field of tension between ‘I’ and ‘you’, between the artist and the viewer. The artist lies on the ground in the living room, in front of the sofa. His face is filmed in close-up...

TROIS DANSES HONGROISES DE BRAHMS

Eric Pauwels
Eric Pauwels takes no pleasure in making pretty pictures, but is constantly searching. He is certainly not afraid of making less obvious choices. He likes to use the “plan séquence”, one long take that covers a whole movement. In doing so the camera fully confronts the unknown, explores the space and the body evolving in that space...

VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)

Jef Cornelis
In 1965 more than 13,000 labourers set to work every day in the port of Antwerp and even then, every day there was a shortage of workers. “The Antwerp docker is the quickest in the world,” we hear in this creative documentary, “though they never had any specific training for their job—except for the markers...

IJSBREKER 15: GOOCHELEN VERSUS PARAPSYCHOLOGIE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De Geest
Priceless jokes, scientifically proven facts, well-intended or malicious manipulations of our consciousness, or artistic tricks? There isn’t much difference...