COLLECTIE

1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH 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...

SUPERPOSITION

Filip Francis
This work is the result of a collaboration between Filip Francis, Luc Deleu and Wout Vercammen. It is an early experiment with image in image, split screen, zoom in, fading, overlaps and other techniques that made the medium video—just out of the cradle in the 1970s—so exciting. The three artists took the camera and set out with great enthusiasm...

LILI DUJOURIE, FRAGMENTEN EN SCULPTUREN 1972-1982

Jef Cornelis
A portrait of Lili Dujourie: series of pictures of her sculptures, with snippets from her videos (Homage to III to V, Untitled, III, IV, XI ,…). The videos by Lili Dujourie come into being in a culturally hardly tolerant climate controlled by the almost hegemonic dominance of the theoretical thinking and artistic acting of minimalism and conceptual art...

LINGUA IGNOTA

Edith Dekyndt
Hildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...

DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER

Alexander Kluge
As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - FAST FOOD

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
This video starts with a male voice-over telling us fast food is paradise. Images of hamburgers and drinks being prepared pop up on the split-screens, along with random TV images and a music video....

KALÈS

Laurent Van Lancker
An initimate and immersive perspective on the 'Jungle of Calais', evoked by a polyphony of men, stories and feels. A sensory journey through the daily life of migrants, characterised by survival strategies.A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell...

THE PORTERS

Sarah Vanagt
Flemish filmmaker Sarah Vanagt asks young people around Brussels to play a well-known European memory game, in which players must repeat and then add to an ever-growing list of items that they would take with them on a trip...

COVERING #1: BEAUTIFUL

Luc Compernol
A static image of a vase with flowers in front of a window, graphically and rhythmically manipulated on a version of Minnie Ripperton’s ‘Lovin’ You’, sung by the filmmaker. This combination of image and sound generates a lot of associations, ranging from funny and comic too silly and pathetic....

DOUBLE TAKE

Johan Grimonprez
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately flounder to say the right things, live on television...