COLLECTIE

LENS

Boris Van der Avoort
Patiently compiled Super-8 images were edited according to the passionate pattern of ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ by Steve Reich. Starting from the image of an eye in close-up, ‘Lens’ presents a kaleidoscope and subjective representation of nature, the city and mankind...

untitled part 7.1: intro, 2010, Jayce Salloum © the artist

UNTITLED PART 7: THE HEART THAT HAS NO PAIN/ LOVE/ GENEROSITY IS NOT A HEART

Jayce Salloum
In April 2008, Jayce Salloum and Afghan-Hazara artist Khadim Ali travelled between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Arrived at the Bamiyan Valley - the famous area where the two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddha carved into the side of a cliff were dynamited by the Taliban – they focused on observing the situation of the local and persecuted minority, the Hazara people...

Zapatero, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ZAPATERO

Angel Vergara
Black and white images illustrate José Luis Zapatero’s term of office. He became prime minister of Spain in 2004 and was still in power when Vergara was filming. Images of for instance a homosexual couple during a wedding ceremony are shown – with a new act, Zapatero’s government made this kind of marriage possible...

1

Shelly Silver
"’The world will devour you....’ A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye.... 1 is a short tape about longing, threat, power and seduction, with the camera functioning in turn, as aggressor, mediator and confessor...

Aubier & Patar, UFO's boven Geel, 1999. © the artists

UFO'S BOVEN GEEL

Vincent Patar - Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Tavier
This documentary revolves around Alfons De Joncker and his plans to build flying saucers. Former pupils of the Technical School in Geel, Belgium, talk about this project. First De Joncker built a tele-conducted car. By 1962 he worked together with the students at some non-navigable flying saucers that flew above the Kempen until they ran out of fuel...

HET GEDROOMDE BOEK: VARIATIES OP "VITA BREVIS" VAN MAURICE GILLIAMS [ENGLISH VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 09/09/1980...

THE WAY OF THE CROSS

Robert Cash
The Way of the Cross is a contemporary video variation on the Way of the Cross, as it is depicted in 14 stations on paintings in Christian churches. Cash’s Way of the Cross is taken by train, each platform where the train stops representing a scene from the Way of the Cross in a sober way – without making use of requisites or historical costumes...

JONAS

Olivier Dekegel
A short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...

PULSATION

Pieter Geenen
Imprinted on the mountains of Northern Cyprus, the landmark of a Turkish Cypriot flag identifies the landscape and claims the land. As it is ever present and visible from almost every part of the island, this flag is acting as a continuous provocation to the Greek Cypriots on the other side of the UN buffer zone since the military division of Cyprus...

DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
In economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...