COLLECTIE

L'ESCALE

Anne Reijniers - Paul Shemisi Betutua - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Rob Jacobs
Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for the screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they're stopped at the airport because the airline doesn't trust their documents to be real...

LIED VAN MIJN LAND

Koen Theys - Frank Theys
The German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...

UNIDENTIFIED AIR

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance where we see Messieurs Delmotte, standing in front of a house, holding an inflatable dolphin in his arms. After a few seconds, an electrical pump starts to inflate the plastic animal. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

THE CRY

Ria Pacquée
In various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

BAVURES D'ESCARGOTS

Jacques Lennep
Snails crawl over the artist’s body and are turned into a green mush. The sludge is skilfully spread on the ground in the shape of a spiral. The work appears to be a reference to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jelly....

VIVA

Karen Vanderborght
This film seems to be an ode to the free fall. It is moreover a mortuary cinematic card made by Vanderborght for a friend who jumped from his balcony in the village where he was born. So the memory of this village, this paradisiacal holiday resort of the filmmakers’ childhood, became more vacant than ever....

MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ ELVIS POMPILIO! [CHAPELIER]

Claudio Pazienza
The magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....

POP ART: CASINO KNOKKE

Jef Cornelis
A short report on the event surrounding Pop Art which Emile Langui organised in 1970 in the Casino of Knokke. Rather than an exhibition, the event was conceived as a situation, a biotope in which visitors and works are admitted like plants and fish in deep-sea water...

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...