COLLECTIE

ENTRE L'OMBRE ET LA LUMIÈRE

Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis Nyst
An installation of Jacques-Louis Nyst, in which a blonde woman, dressed in leather SM-outfit, is filmed in a dark room. She performs a slow choreography in which she scinds with a sword and strikes a metal chain. At the end of the sequence, the image changes to a red swing and a voice-over starts singing a simple song "entre l'ombre et la lumière, je me balance, je suis balanceuse."...

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS - THE ANGST ARCHIVE

Ken Kobland
Kobland’s quiet, meditative video is a philosophical investigation, a travelogue of sorts, and, ultimately, a probing essay-film in the tradition of Aleksandr Sokurov or a late Godard...

SYMPHONIE

Boris Lehman
Symphonie mixes fiction and reality. Before the camera Romain Schneid tells us the story of his claustrophobia, which started when at the age of twelve during the Nazi occupation, as a Jew he could not leave the tiny flat where he was hiding. He relates his story and plays all the characters of his tragedy all by himself. He invents, distorts, imagines a different end...

LE BÉTON PARAÎT PLUS DOUX AU SOLEIL

Wiktoria Synak
Model City in Brussels is impressive because of its dimensions but the blackened blocks have something frightening to them as well. The idea of integrating multiple social groups in one newly constructed neighbourhood was presented by Fernand Brunfaut in 1958 during the Universal Exposition. The project was subsequently realized but due to a lack of money wasn't completed properly...

CASA

Michel François
‘CASA’ is an extensive collage of film fragments, capturing numerous subjects and sensations. The artist makes an appeal to the five senses and the four elements. Movement is also very central in ‘CASA’. It starts with waves overflowing a wall. The element water. A close-up of elbows rubbing a rough surface. Two hands are grabbing a face covered in clay. Touch...

I MAY HAVE LOST FOREVER MY UMBRELLA...

Johan Grimonprez
In the spring of 2011, during the Photomonth in Krakow, the artist collective Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin invited Johan Grimonprez to be part of 'ALIAS', an exhibition with artists who inhabit alternative versions of themselves. An artist and a writer were teamed up with the aim to create a non-existent third persona...

Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine, Till Roeskens, 2009 © the artist & producer

VIDÉOCARTOGRAPHIES: AÏDA, PALESTINE

Till Roeskens
In ’Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine’ Roeskens asks several inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee camp Aïda to draw him a map. The camera records the inverse of these scribbles, showing the marks of the black pen through the white paper...

FRANÇOIS

Sven Augustijnen
’François’ constitutes, along with the film ’Johan’, a purely documentary portrait of patients with aphasia. François, a middle-aged man, suffers from aphasia – memory lapses – and he has trouble finding the right words for simple expressions. In order to train his memory he undergoes various treatments in a hospital, among them speech therapy...

DIE LORELEY

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In this computer-animation, Van Kerckhoven links together portrait paintings she made between 1987 and 1990 of 54 people that visited her unexpectedly. These people are acquaintances, friends and relatives. She linked each person chronologically to some words of the poem ‘Die Loreley’ of Heinrich Heine (1797- 1856)...

GREAT BLOOD SACRIFICE

Steve Reinke
A walk with shaky hand held camera through the landscape of the high desert of New Mexico, down the cliffs to a water reservoir accompanied by Reinke’s voice over: “I had a dream last night. I was in a room with Joy Behar, and she had wrapped a dog in aluminum foil, and the dog couldn’t get out...