COLLECTION

Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)

SILENT ELECTIONS

Sarah Vanagt
The power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...

CIRCULAR INSCRIPTION

Lukas Marxt
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake, with the sounds of a distant roar. In the long shot, the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Mojave landscape, whose static panorama forms the referential and also material background for Circular Inscription...

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

Michel Couturier
The shipping lane between Calais and the cliffs of Dover is the busiest in the world. This stretch of water is also the favoured route used by illegal immigrants in their attempt to reach the United Kingdom from Calais. The west-east axis of global trade is perpendicular to the south-north axis of migration triggered by war and poverty...

CAMERA OBSCURA

Michel Lorand
For ‘Camera Obscura’, Lorand made a night-time recording from a moving automobile, along an empty and unlit road, projected the dark images against a wall and filmed them again with a hand held camera...

3 SHORT STORIES

Michel Lorand
3 Short Stories includes a video installation, Medea, centrally placed in the exhibition space, and three short video films, Cut, Camera Obscura and Epilogue, shown successively and continually in the projection room. Although the title may suggest otherwise, Michel Lorand is presenting four, not three, autonomous works...

ASS DANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
A short, though provocative, video where the camera shoots a naked body lying on a red surface. The body moves on the beat of the music while the viewer can read a text on the back of the actor....

PAULA WINK

Frédéric Gaillard
With ‘Playground love’ by the band Air playing in the background, Gaillard dances with his camera in slow motion in front of a large canvas, almost like a painting at first sight, with the image of a young girl. Depending on the camera movements the girl opens or shuts one of her eyes, making it seem as if she is blinking – just like a hologram....

Oratorium for One Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors, 1989, Frank Theys © the artist

ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS

Frank Theys
The video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...

OOPS WRONG PLANET

Anouk De Clercq
Oops wrong planet shows an attractive, rolling landscape from a different planet. An attempt is made to establish contact. Long-distance communication is possible, albeit with some interference on the line. Clear contact appears impossible, though. The static appears like a veil that clouds the picture. The soundtrack of Scanner reinforces the static between distance and vicinity even further...

THE APPLE EATER

Els Dietvorst
After the six-year project ‘The Return of the Swallows’ Els Dietvorst started this collaborative film project in which she works anew with people from various backgrounds, several loyal followers to go with her she called The New Swallows. In distinct clair obscur constrasts, ‘The Apple-Eater’ shows us the voyage of some people in search for a better world and life...