COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999, CITY OF LONDON
Charley CaseIn Friday, June 18, 1999, City of London, Charley Case witnesses the widespread rage against the capitalist system and the emergence of an alternative system out of the system, out of time. This work reveals great sensitivity to political and social debate and militate for a freedom of expression and total movement...
Bureaux Vilvoorde, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
BUREAUX VILVOORDE
Angel VergaraVergara films an office building in Vilvoorde, with traffic on a four-lane motorway in the foreground. He films from the roadside, and the camera angle is hardly ever changed during the recording. As with ’Tino cordonnier’ and ’Sofia caissière’, this work consists of a single shot and concerns a simple recording of a working environment...
R… NE RÉPOND PLUS
Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Luc DardenneA rousing examination of free radio culture in Europe: "Were free radio stations created because the mass media could no longer make love?" the narrator asks...
PORTRAIT SERIE - JONAS MEKAS
Olivier DekegelA 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...
PANG
Anouk De ClercqCentral 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...
CZECHMATE
Hänzel & GretzelAn Akasic Peeper project dedicated to the New York poet-mythographer, phantasmagorical filmmaker and pioneer editor Ira Cohen (also known as the Majoon Traveller). A short poem written and read in Prague during the ‘Sub Rosa Curfew tour under the full moon’, also featuring the Golem’s shadow and Jan Saudek’s baroque bordello...
RESONATING SURFACES
Manon de BoerFirst, there’s only darkness and music combined with vague, indefinable sounds, like footsteps or stumbling. Then, slowly, the image whitens, giving way bit by bit to some 16 mm film spots and scratches. Now and then, images appear for a split second. The music swells, distorted, cut through with noise...
BRING US TO OURSELVES, MIKHAÏL
Emmanuel Van der AuweraIn an airport somewhere, a puppet of Mikhaïl Gorbatchev gives a monologue in the dark, gripped by the threat of the catastrophe erupting outside. Powerless and unable to react, he awaits the creeping collapse of his world. Bring us to ourselves, Mikhaïl is a video-essay, somewhere in between a fiction-documentary and a filmed puppet-show...
