COLLECTION

THE DIVERS

Nicolas Provost
A lonely woman is approached by a shy man on a moonlit balcony. The fulfilment of their longing is hampered by the mysteries of love in a burning night. Behind the woman, the illuminated city; the ringing of a church bell, fireworks exploding. They two characters look at each other but hardly dare to touch. The woman plays nervously with her pistachio green dress, the boy touches his trousers...

VIDÉO HEBDO 36

Claude Cattelain
Running around with the camera fixed on a stick....

RISING FALL

Lukas Marxt
Rising Fall is a three-part study on nature as its spectacle, on what Spinoza termed natura naturans, or “nature naturing.” Something happens without the need of a guiding agent. Filmic images are content to quietly watch and listen and wait. And they expect the same of how they are observed. In other words an immanence of nature confiding a secret...

Shy Gardener I, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

SHY GARDENER I

Peter Finnemore
In the short video Shy Gardener I, the camera films a garden and, on the background, a fields where cows calmly graze. Peter Finnemore intervenes on this pastoral landscape hided behind a sunflower....

VANDALES ET VAMPIRES (NUITS SANGLANTES)

Lucile Desamory
In the twilight, an errant sleepwalker meets a vampire hunting for fresh blood...  ...

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....

THE DEATH OF JAMES LEE BYARS

Peter Brosens
Based upon two performances / installations of James Lee Byars: ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’ and ‘The White Mass’. In ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’, the artist acts out his own death on 1 July 1994. Wearing a mask and dressed in gold, Byars lies in the ‘golden room’ of the Marie-Puck Broodthaers Art Gallery in Brussels...

SAY HELLO TO PEACE AND TRANQUILITY

Martin Wittwer - Dagmar Keller
In ‘Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility’, we find ourselves in a projected world of deserted suburbia. Terrace town homes slowly slide by, offering an endless panorama of wide sidewalks, tidy front gardens, latched facades and gabled houses. The absence of people appears completely normal; even the little lap dog that motionlessly slides into view does not seem that out of place...

ATOMIC BOMB LOADING PIT

Lukas Marxt
The video reveals an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit in Wendover, Utah (USA), which was used during WWII to practice the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We hear a voice over, reading parts of the unclassified 37 pages user manual "How to build an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit", which was released and distributed in June 1946....

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974)

Jacques Lennep
This compilation combines short video sequences, recorded in 1974 and 1975 by the CAP collective, making them the first to use video as an artistic medium of expression...