COLLECTIE

DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT

Jacques Louis Nyst
Two characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...

EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)

Steve Reinke
Reinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....

REGEN

Wolf Vostell
A creative registration of the performance piece – or ‘dé-coll/age-Happening’ – that Vostell made in 1976 with the help of, amongst others, the artists Mary Harding, John Armleder and Philippe Deléglise...

Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...

MY WORD

Vito Acconci
In this feature-length silent film, Acconci is interested in language, the power of words and the qualities of Super8 film – a medium originally without sound...

ECHO VALLEY

Steve Reinke
An echo is the return of an originating voice in a distorted and diminished way. In ‘Echo Valley’, there are no originating voices, but only endless, undiminished echoes. This slight, frothy videotape manages to juxtapose high and low culture idioms in a way that undermines their respective implications and creates new hybrids....

VIDÉO HEBDO 17

Claude Cattelain
A shot while driving along the water....

L'IMAGE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
An image has disappeared at Presseux Village: under a garden shelter, a piece of landscape is missing from the décor. The media and scientists from the whole world ponder over this disappearance. Will our heroes manage to get to the bottom of this mystery?...

untitled, Jayce Salloum, 1999- © the artist & producer

UNTITLED

Jayce Salloum
‘untitled’ is an ongoing multi-channel video installation continuing my series of projects addressing social and political realities and representations, manifestations, and enunciations, focusing on borders/nationalisms/ movements (shifts, transitions, and interstitial space/time) and subjectivity and the conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and ideo...

DAVE'S GREAT IDEA

Dirk De Hooghe - Rudy Trouvé
A portrait of the Scottish guitarists/musicians Dave Robertson and Craig Ward. The camera — hand-held most of the time — follows the musicians very closely. The film begins with the two men still asleep. Later they roam the inner city of Antwerp, looking for kicks to dispel boredom...