COLLECTIE

NO ICE

Simona Denicolai - Ivo Provoost
Video taping of a reflection on the role and the impact of an art work in the public space; financed by a public institution and sponsored by a private process, which occurs three times ten minutes in different climate conditions....

CORBION, BELGIUM, WHERE RIMBAUD AND VERLAINE LIVED TOGETHER IN THE WOODS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting Corbion near the French-Belgian border, where the ruins still could be seen tucked away in the forest, of the little cottage where French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived together for a short while 100 years earlier, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...

LES PETITES FILLES FRIABLES

Jen Debauche
The surrealist entourage of poets André Breton, Paul Eluard and Antonin Artaud invented the literary game of the cadavre exquis: one sentence written by many different authors, thus giving a surrealist purpose to a verse...

STAND HERE AT THE EDGE

Andrea Geyer
When viewing a movie, what we know can foreclose the possibility of vision. ’Stand here at the Edge’, tries to construct an epistemological break, by simply suggesting to close ones eyes and challenge the entitlement and “knowledge” that so often comes with the familiarity of our gaze...

1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

LETTER HOME

An van. Dienderen
Letter Home is a film letter - without the use of narration - in which the touristic images of the artist's trip to Japan are digitally distorted. The basic strategy of this type of digital corruption is copying, which is used in the film to challenge the western perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’...

RICHARD HAMILTON

Jef Cornelis
The British painter Richard Hamilton talks and with students of different art academies, at the occasion of an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts/Paleis voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels in 1971, about how he works and his sources of inspiration...

QUID ESPERANZA [2005 VERSION]

Stéphane Manzone
Every year, around Easter, the procession of Semanta Santa moves through the streets of Malaga. The parade of masked penitents, the glorification of the statue of Virgin Mary,… everything seems to be targeted towards making the crowd, as if in a trance, forget about their own mortality. In Fatima, Portugal, the Virgin showed herself to three shepherds according to legend...

REGARDE JONATHAN / JEAN LOUVET, SON OEUVRE

Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne
’Regarde Jonathan’ highlights the work of dissident playwright Jean Louvet through highly impressionist montages (a lone boxer, moving trains, dancing feet) and Brechtian restagings of his work (dramatic readings, minimalist sets, and snippets of text)...

FOUNDLINGS

Orla Barry
’Foundlings’ was shot near Wexford, in the south east of Ireland where Orla Barry grew up. It is a  visual poem without a particular narrative and full of autobiographical elements, set at a very slow pace. Floating images and heavy voices are central to the associative strategy that is at work here...