COLLECTIE

DE ZANGER DEMODOKOS

Jan Vromman
'De zanger Demodokos' returns to the basics of our culture. In a short meditation about the role of text and music, of seeing and blindness, Jan Vromman evokes the blind singer from Homer - the darling of the muses. In this touching short film the blind Tcha Limberger sings the Homer's text, and plays Kris Defoort's music on clarinet. "The worst crime man commits is against himself...

I LOVE KITTY KORTES LYNCH

Marc Vanrunxt - Robert Cash
A huge source of inspiration in the oeuvre of Marc Vanrunxt is the work of Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), the figure head of Belgian symbolism. The atmosphere of dreams and evasion in Khnopff’s portraits is often an essential part of the recent performances by the choreographer...

Lettre verte à Hervé Brouhon, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LETTRE VERTE À HERVÉ BROUHON

Angel Vergara
The movie is part of an installation set up in 1989 in the Centre for Fine Arts for the exhibition ’Incident de Parcours’, organised by the Fondation de la Tapisserie in Tournai. The installation was projected onto a canvas painted green, and a letter by Hervé Brouhon was also displayed as well, his response to Vergara’s request to put a cow in Brussels Park and paint it...

LE ROMAN DE FAUVEL

Joëlle de La Casinière
A musical video book. A screen adaptation of manuscript ’Fr. 146’ at the Bibliothèque Nationale of France. A work devised, written and produced at home by de la Casinière on her personal computer...

REGARDING FAUSTINE

Ira A. Goryainova
Starting with the premise that any documentary portrayal has something dominating and destructive in its nature, this short essay tackles the relationship between the director and her protagonist, Faustine. The act of looking becomes tangible through technology, superstitions and fantasmatic seeing...

PANG

Anouk De Clercq
Central to the piece is a woman who evocates the ideal of beauty of the 19th century Pre-Raphaelite painters: etherical, melancholic, soft but also cool, inaccesible. Afterwards the image is drawn out in order to come closer to the essence and at the same time to make it more magical...

KARAOKE PLAY FUJI

Bernard Gigounon
A white line (a read-and-write head) scanning the landscape guides the musical composition. By using karaoke as an inspiration, and while invoking the tacky universe that in Japan surrounds Mountain Fuji, Gigounon pays homage to this cultural symbol....

THE BLOB

Gert Verhoeven
In 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented a first draught of ’The Blob’ (2001) on a wide screen at the Palace for Fine Arts (BOZAR). This video is a report on the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in Buffalo, New York and Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada...

L'AUTEUR

Michel Lorand
The Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...

COMPOSITIE

Marie André
André re-organizes time, rhythm and sound in her portrait of the new music composer/pianist Walter Hus, constructing a study of the process of composing. Playing on the title's double meaning — "composition" and "composite" — André isolates musical gestures and fragments time, recomposing Hus' evolving composition...