COLLECTIE

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....

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART III: ACTS OF CONSUMPTION

Jayce Salloum
’Acts of Consumption’, to consume or to consume oneself. Sex and violence, sermons of love and social struggle, demonstrations, demolitions. The analogies become almost narrative. From a sex scene to a dissection one, we pass from love to science by interposed organs. Lovers’ hands caress, those of the doctor dissect. Science brings forth technology : screens, clocks, machines.....

THE NOTHING THAT IS…

Ken Kobland
THE NOTHING THAT IS, comes out of the environment of our streets, these days; the 'virtual', 'other reality' which inhabits them. In the midst endless mining and searching for data, for information, for what's hidden (conspiratorially) in the everyday... It's bounded by 2 quotes (always words, I need them, what else can i say). One from a Wallace Steven's poem and the other from Robert Frank...

PORTRAIT OF KARL MARX AS A YOUNG GOD

Gernot Wieland
Portrait of Karl Marx as a young god is an absurd documentary about (political) desire. The film consists of collages and drawings with voice over comments by a telephone speaker. The images visualize specific historical reminiscences from recent German history, while the voice over extends and counteracts these images with a multitude of absurd and humorous interpretations....

ALLEZ LES ZÈBRES ! (HOMMAGE À EZIO BUCCI)

Jacques Lennep
In the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his « Musée de l’homme», a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...

THE NEED TO TAKE BACK WHAT YOU'VE JUST GIVEN (PIGEONS 1)

Messieurs Delmotte
In a public place, Messieurs Delmotte lures pigeons with breadcrumbs. All of a sudden, like a madman he attacks the flock and reappropriates the food. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 20 : LA PIÈCE DE THÉÂTRE

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Everyone is excited: tonight there’s a theatre performance! The public arrives in great numbers—the three decks of the bus bulge with theatre lovers. For the occasion, the stables have been converted into a theatre. Indian, Cowboy, farmer Steven and some other familiar characters stage the adventures of Zorro. Jeanine takes care of the tickets and the snacks during the break...

WALKER, LE PRÉ CATELAN

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film tries to apprehend the Pré Catelan, built on a main avenue in Toulouse in the 1970s. It is built around an inner courtyard originally designed to be full of life, but whose shops have closed one after the other. Two figures stroll through it without ever meeting each other, and cast a circumspect gaze on this architecture they will ultimately fail to appropriate....

OUR CIRCUMSCRIBED DAYS

Hans Van den Broeck
In 1999 Hans Van Den Broeck made this rhythmical portrait of Moscow. He did not focus on the real Moscow, but rather on the myth of the metropolitan city, with its inhabitants as actors. He wanted to capture the Russian spirit, in all its absurdity. Conflict situations, incongruities, funny or absurd situations, however minimal, drew his attention...

LOOK AT ME

Uri Tzaig - Avi Shaham
In the video Look at me, translations take place on different levels. With references to silent film (black-and-white, slightly faltering, silent, text signs, images with rounded edges,...) the work shows age-old elderly people, looking for a confrontation with the spectator in close up...