COLLECTIE

RONDE DE NUIT

Jean-Claude Riga
Between sunset and sunrise the men on the night shift work to the ponderous rhythm of coke burning. The coke furnace is a bit like the belly of the steelworks. Around it men work, sleep... and then spring into action again. Images, saved from oblivion, of a place where the age-old relationship between man and the elements still survives today....

FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 11

Claude Cattelain
Doing a video each day. Day 11: trying to sweeping away the sea from the shore....

ALLE DE TRANEN / EVERY TEAR / TOUTE LARME

Sarah Vanagt
In the 17th century, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a draper from Delft, begins to make glass lenses, in order to better study the quality of his textile. He melts, drips and grinds small beads of glass. His tiny lenses are so bright and have such magnifying power that the draper seems to have entered a new dimension...

CARTOON FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A CERTAIN FONDNESS FOR IDEAS, BUT ARE TIRED OF THINKING

Steve Reinke
Simple line drawings form and wriggle against a light purple background, each linked to a verbal proposal. “Every door eventually leads to the world, but we have no doors.” The interstices between words, scribbles and desire explored....

ADIEU TRISTESSE

Robert Cash
On the face of it Adieu Tristesse is a black comedy which takes as its subject the act of ’sawing-the-lady-in-half’. We are comforted by our familiarity with this illusion and are sure all will be well in the end. Meanwhile the piece operates on another symbolic level in so far as it alludes to trick effects employed in early cinematography to heighten suspense and theatricality...

VIDÉO HEBDO 58

Claude Cattelain
A roundtrip....

A] PART, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer

A] PART

Peter Downsbrough
A]PART is a video project filmed in the Citroën Building on the Place de l’Yser/IJzerplein In Brussels. Downsbrough directs camera through different levels of the building. Sometimes the camera focusses on what is happening outside: traffic... Only buildings, cars and structures are seen...

A CUP OF COFFEE'S STATE OF BEING

Messieurs Delmotte
For a good cup of coffee: first serve the coffee, then add some milk, and even a bit of sugar of your choosing. Mix all the ingredients, and, finally, taste it!...

Art belge, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ART BELGE

Angel Vergara
Galerie des Beaux-Arts was located in Rue Ravenstein, just in front of Bozar. With his super8 camera, Vergara films the people at the opening and the window of the gallery where it's taking place a show about the Belgian Art. Then, the artist is recorded while, seated on stool, copies some paintings, including “La Belle Rosine” by Antoine Wiertz....

NORTHERN DRIFT

Alexis Destoop
Reporting from the future, an Arctic exploration around an undefined border turns into a philosophical investigation of mankind and its environment. Assembled from personal experiences, collected testimonies and local stories, the film presents a subjective portrait of the contentious Norwegian-Russian borderland, one of hte world’s last frontiers...