COLLECTION

INCIDENT. EINE SKIZZE

Andreas Brehmer
Starting point of ’Incident. Eine Skizze’ are fragments of text, sound and image, all related to one another. Thus the length of the text determines the frequence of the images (details of one and the same picture), their colour, as well as text and sound, which, in turn interrupts the rhythm of text and image by its volume....

FAIRE-PART

Anne Reijniers - Rob Jacobs - Nizar Saleh Mohamedali - Paul Shemisi Betutua
On the eve of postponed Congolese elections, two Congolese and two Belgian cineasts make a film about Kinshasa and its resistance against the legacies of colonialism. The four filmmakers want to tell a story together, but having grown up on other sides of history, they have different views on how to tell that story...

LA DISPARITION

Nicolas Dufranne
A couple is travelling to the South. One night in a hotel room the young woman vanishes. This is the beginning of a search, as more and more birds start circling over the landscape, casting a threatening shadow over the mystery...

SPHERE 1

Michael Van den Abeele - Arnaud Hendrickx
The sphere’s size is indefinite. It is supplied with degrees of longitude and latitude. Its surface is being explored. The route to follow uncertain. The movement’s velocity and the distance towards the surface, with regard to the centre, is defined. The spectator is situated in or outside the sphere. He’s looking along the radius for as long as he wants or is able to...

LA JOUISSANCE DES HYSTÉRIQUES

Jan Bucquoy
What do psychoanalysis and movies have in common? What is the girl doing at the tomb of Apollinaire? Why do directors always quarrel with their actresses? What do situationism and marxism have in common? Why go to Bali for holidays? What can we learn from actresses who want to have a role in the movie? Bucquoy: "When my wife left me for my mistress, I had the choice: either have a pile attac...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 93. MANIFESTATIONS/JOUISSANCE

Steve Reinke
After a sharp blow to the head, one sometimes gains extraordinary powers. I’ve lately been struck by the gift of superior critical abilities in analyzing Hollywood films....

The Roof, James Nares, 1975. Courtesy the Artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

THE ROOF

James Nares
The precariousness yet simplicity of the black and white video ‘Roof’ shows Nares encased at the neck by a swinging wooden plank that seems to whip his unseen body over the edge of a roof. By employing an illusionist trick with his camera, Nares’ seemingly disembodied head drifts eerily through lower Manhattan...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 18 : LAURENT LE NEVEU DE CHEVAL

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Horse gets a visit from his nephew Laurent. But he doesn’t come to play: he has loads of homework and needs a quiet room. Cowboy and Indian are very upset that they have to give up their’s. And though the small Laurent looks very sweet, he’s actually a real pest. Horse, who is trying out his nephew’s skateboard, finds it very difficult to believe that is true...

EFEMERIA

Jan Vromman
Efemeria is a transcription to video of a project with slides, a poem and soundscape from 1958. This assemblage of ’words/images/sounds’ is extremely nude in its juxtaposition. The transcription to video of 2011, became an act of purity and brutality, radical in all its simplicity. The slides are from photographer Julien Coulommier, the words are written and read by poet Chris Yperman...

OBJECTIEVE ARCHITECTUUR

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Swiss architect Werner Blaser curated the group exhibition 'Objective Architecture—Skin and Skeleton 'in the National Higher Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Antwerp. Jef Cornelis made a television report for the current art events programme 'Zoeklicht'. The documentary features only photographs of architecture on four continents...