COLLECTIE

Palais Royal, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PALAIS ROYAL

Angel Vergara
In ’Palais Royal’ several people are posing in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels. The spectrum is diverse. Families with young children as well as three sailors are shown onscreen. In the meantime, traffic goes up and down Koningsstraat and Paleizenplein....

BALLOON FROM INSIDE

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

THING

Anouk De Clercq
An architect talks about the city he has built. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. His account is an attempt to give his ideas a fixed shape. This, in a nutshell, is the story of Thing...

A Message from Space in my Backyard, 2008-2009, Krassimir Terizev © the artist

A MESSAGE FROM SPACE IN MY BACKYARD

Krassimir Terziev
"It is far from rational from the perspective of single human life to imagine that a piece of space shuttle, after being launched some 20 years ago, would hit a woman in her backyard in California, or a piece of derelict Russian satellite, after orbiting the earth for a several decades, would reach its final destination in the desert of Australia in front of local shepherds...

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...

LA MORT D'UNE POULE

Jacques Louis Nyst
Recorded in the Nysts’ living-room during a rainy day, this video marks the introduction of colour (in this case green) in the previously black and white universe of the Nysts’ videos. 'La mort d’une poule' shows a top hat held in the air thanks to the help of a stick...

BUILDING 19 VERDIEPINGEN

Danny Matthys
About a building which was an astonishing lack of finishing touches, even the floors were not numbered outside the elevators. Combining video with slides and pictures, this installation was part of a phase in which Matthys methodically examined various media....

LA MAZDA JAUNE ET SA SAINTETÉ

Sandra Heremans
A conceptual experiment on what it means to start a film with a black image, develops into a subtle personal essay about the filmmaker. This short film tells the story of a Belgian missionary who fell in love with a Rwandan woman, metamorphosing little by little into a personal reflection by their daughter...

SYLVIA KRISTEL - PARIS

Manon de Boer
Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of the actress Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic ‘Emmanuelle’...