COLLECTIE

ROND EST LE MONDE

Olivier Dekegel
In the company of a mule and a Super8 camera, a filmmaker walks through the world enchanted by the beauty of all things. Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi's "Praise of the Creatures", an enlightened and candid contemplation driven by the changing light of seasons. This film is an invitation to a voyage, a voyage around the world with the most simple and humble of all animals, the donkey...

DE GESCHIEDENIS VAN MR. KROLL

Harald Thys
With his partner, Mr Kroll collects scrap metal along the road. He is very surprised to see what people throw away. In his workshop he tinkers with the broken parts he has found. In the meantime a voice-over relates how the same Mr Kroll has brutally mutilated and murdered a number of young girls....

QUARTIER BARAQUE FRITURE

Luc Gobyn
‘Quartier Baraque Friture’ is a compilation film of the playful and adventurist installation. We see a stage full of old fuel oil containers rebuild as a set of trains or stage wagons. All of them tell their own story and have their own symbolic meaning: relics, stories, and memories – like browsing through an old photo book...

THE CORRIDOR

Sarah Vanagt
For 5 days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South-England. From home to home, from room to room. Each time the donkey was welcomed warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter...

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

Marie Voignier
How an individual or group relates to other things/the Other that are situated far-off, is highlighted in the absolute cliché of the tourist. For indeed, at his or her destiny the tourist who wants to escape the everyday narrow-mindedness is supposed to pay little or no heed to the ‘reality’ of the other place...

FRIDAY FISHDAY

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...

untitled part 4: terra incognita, Jayce Salloum, 2005 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 4: TERRA INCOGNITA

Jayce Salloum
terra incognita focuses on fragments of histories, of pre-European contact, contact, and settlement of the Kelowna (south-central B.C.) area though the accounts of several N’Syilx’cen (Okanagan Nation) speakers...

(DIS)LOCATION

Meggy Rustamova
'(dis)Location' is a many layered film making use of photography and voice over to reveal a narrative beyond the personal and the universal. The video '(dis)Location' focuses on the dynamic between audience and author, language, interpretation, the duality between reality and fiction, storytelling and visual narration...

Imobilaria Benicasim, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

IMOBILIARIA BENICASSIM

Angel Vergara
With a pencil, and later with a brush, Vergara follows the contours and structure of an apartment building in Benicasim, a municipality of Castelló and the Knokke of Spain....

Poulliart, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PATRICK POULLIART

Angel Vergara
Before the actual question is posed, Patrick Pouillard, who teaches drawing at the Ecole des Arts in Sint-Gillis, briefly elaborates on the difference between a school and an academy. He shares what the notion of freedom of the artist means for him, and is questioned about the comparative freedom of the artist who draws and the model who is drawn...