COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
THE CURSE
Harald Thys - Jos De GruyterIn the same minimalist style that would later on characterize 'The Bucket’ (2001) and 'The Spinning Wheel’ (2002), 'The Curse’ tells Maria’s unhappy story. After giving birth to her first child, she has mysteriously lost her husband’s love. The situation is as tragic as absurd, the universe it deals with as grotesque and enigmatic as alienating...
PORTRAITS RALENTIS
Thierry De MeyWith this work De Mey presents a series of portraits of some important figures from the 1990s art and cultural scene (for example the performers of Rosas Dance Company), but also of children and friends. The characters portrayed go back to De Mey’s work ‘Barbe-Bleue’ (‘Blue Beards’)...
DE ACHTERKAMER (DANIËL ROBBERECHTS)
Jef CornelisDaniël Robberechts (who passed away in 1992) fully applied himself to writing after his studies in mathematics. In 1960 he was already a full-time writer, but not a ’professional’ one: without the financial support of his wife, Cécile Faniel, he would not have been able to write...
FOR NOW
Herman AsselberghsIn times of great turmoil, time comes to a standstill. The central two movements in For Now are horizontal panoramas shots and firm, vertical edits. They show shifts of place without the journey. Nature, the wind, movement that occurs all on its own: this would seem to be the film’s real subject matter. The film unfolds in waves...
IN THE MEANWHILE...
Bernard Gigounon"In the meanwhile..." is a slightly hysterical celebration of life with an appropriate soundtrack in a fairyland forest setting, rudely interrupted by a man who is looking for his personal harmony with nature in a most theatrical way....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 28. TESTIMONIALS
Steve ReinkeFive friends warmly describe what a good lover Steve Reinke is. As always, Reinke works on the hesitation : "it is and it isn’t true". Are these people gamely saying what he has asked them to say?...
ECLIPS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn ‘Eclips’ Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven uses a disturbed fragment from Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic ‘L’Eclisse’. The film contains a scene in which actress Monica Vitti turns her back to the camera. Her turn is digitally slowed down and further manipulated by Van Kerckhoven...
Promener les images, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PROMENER LES IMAGES
Angel VergaraVergara is walking around different locations in Antwerp, holding a series of empty frames. With the empty frames he is suggesting that the actual artistic content and input of his performances should be looked for in the city itself...
