COLLECTION

CONVERSATION NORD-SUD, DANEY / SANBAR

Simone Bitton
The influential French movie critic Serge Daney in a dialogue with Palestinian historian Elias Sanbar, who attempts to archive the photographic memory records of his people. The recording was made in Paris on July 4th, 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War. A meeting between 2 cultures and 2 different visual approaches, a parabola of North/South-relations....

SOLO FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS

Filip Francis
The artist is setting up wooden domino blocks in the Sint-Annatunnel in Antwerp. Then he records a close-up of the blocks tumbling. His experiments with the woodblocks continue in his studio. The succesful pieces he will use again in his exhibitions, which he also records....

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

Yolande de Bontridder, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

YOLANDE DE BONTRIDDER

Angel Vergara
Yolande De Bontridder, former director of the gallery Archetype who specializes in collaborations between artists and enterprises, is questioned about the artist’s freedom. She states that there is a freedom in creation and life itself...

LOCUSTS

Hänzel & Gretzel
In this ‘Akashic Peeper Project’, Lee Ranaldo (a member of the band Sonic Youth) reads from his ‘Road Movie’ poems and shares his vision on reality that is fairly nomadic. Hänzel & Gretzel’s highly idiosyncratic images match perfectly Ranaldo’s poetry. This work juxtaposes an aggressive rawness with an oddly poetic, even metaphysical, sensibility....

IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…

Johan Grimonprez
The multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...

DO YOU LIKE BODY-ART?

Frank Van Herck
Video-performance registration. Van Herck uses the relations between body and image. The body is no longer an untouchable model, an entity of preference. It now carries the fantasies of the media. It is no longer a material body, but a weightless body, a gesture that develops into the abstract language of the media. The connection to reality becomes less direct: filtered in order to fascinate...

AFTER THE FLOOD

Els Dietvorst
"Every being seems to be entitled to different other lives." (A. Rimbaud) This film shows fragments of every emotion the actors want to play. Every actor plays an emotion. Leading element is the life of writer Arthur Rimbaud....

XY 02

Edith Dekyndt
A circle of silk thread shakes hands, passes from one to another, winds, wandering, as if he were alive. The image is presented in video-projection, leaving the terrain of the hands and the curves of the wire appear on the wall like a mural....

IJSBREKER 17: VAN TOETERS EN BLAZERS

Jef Cornelis - Stefaan Decostere - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
For the very first time the Flemish public broadcasting network lifts a corner of the veil which surrounds one of the main aspects of amateur art: the world of local musical associations, symphonic bands and brass bands. From Dutch Limburg a live report is transmitted of a large-scale symphonic band festival. At the same time the brass band Midden-Brabant responds over another satellite uplink...