COLLECTIE

INTERLUDE

Bernard Gigounon
Little experiences of everyday, an acceleration of the yield of a copy machine, a tribute to Jean Renoir, a videogame, 24 image-seconds piled on top of each other and the results of an encounter of the children of the Brussels neighbourhood Marollen with the medium video....

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...

THE TABLE TURNING

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film installation "The Table Turning" we see a table supported by four tortoises. The tortoises struggle amongst themselves to set the table into motion. Each part gives a specific view on this event.PART I: In this part we only see extreme close up shots of the four tortoises without knowing that they are supporting a table...

FLASH BACK

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

Familia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

FAMILIA

Angel Vergara
Two families are presented. They are sitting together at the table and looking at photo albums. With a brush, Vergara follows their contours and movements...

IJSBREKER 05: HET CIRCUS HUILT

Eric Blanckaert - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The circus, a world where a laugh and a tear might well run into one another more easily than anywhere else. After the Second World War, there were 14 circuses left in Belgium, a number which turned out to be halved after a mere decade...

TABLEAUX DES INDES GALANTES

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière
Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opéra-ballet ’Les Indes Galantes’ serves as the unifying theme for this film by Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison while the Ciné Central, shot from across the street and explored in every detail of its façade, provides its recurring visual motif...

ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR

Jef Cornelis
A document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...

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...