COLLECTION

BORDER

Hans Op de Beeck
’Border’ is projected life-size and opens with the image of a number of people sitting down in an oppressively small, square space. We can hear them whispering, sighing, coughing. Then a life-size x-ray image slowly appears over the total surrounding of this environment, the image of a truck crammed with goods...

VIDÉO HEBDO 3

Claude Cattelain
A teabag is emptied, rolled, burned and it flies away....

Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit, Alexander Kluge, 1985. copyright

DER ANGRIFF DER GEGENWART AUF DIE ÜBRIGE ZEIT

Alexander Kluge
In this "film essay," director Alexander Kluge handles two different stories with both fictional and documentary aspects. In one story, a foster parent cares for a traumatized young girl who is now an orphan after witnessing a car crash that killed both her parents...

FINLAND - TALLINN

Didier Volckaert
"This video has been constructed out of 12 colorslides I took on vacation: An architectural journey to Finland with a change of direction towards Talinn. One of the many trips I made under guidance of my old teacher and always-mentor Gilbert Decouvreur. Distortion (snow) visualizes the failure of communicating the emotions we experienced to others. Video is an illusion of the image...

untitled part 3a: occupied territories, Jayce Salloum, 2000-2004 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 3A: OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Jayce Salloum
Excerpts from two conversations, one with Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (in Bourg al Barajinah refugee camp, near Beirut), and the other with Nameh Hussein Suleiman (in Baddawi refugee camp, near Tripoli, Lebanon), two elder Palestinians that have been living in the camps in Lebanon since 1948...

IT SEEMS TO BE LONELINESS BUT IT IS NOT

Lukas Marxt
Humans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not Lukas Marxt puts himself in this situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange can hardly be expected. The artist moves through an inhospitable location...

VERLIEFDE HARTEN OF DE LISTEN ENER JONKER

Jef Cornelis
In the mid-1970s artist and author Pjeeroo Robjee wrote a popular farce that played in the region where he lived. The play was performed in a popular theatre near Ghent by the locals. Cornelis filmed the entire performance, both onstage, offstage and backstage. During the preparations, we see the actors-locals being made up. While the public enters, the tension rises...

MYRTLE BEACH

Jacques Louis Nyst
An early film by Nyst anticipating the work he would make years later: poetical ambience pieces, built around congealed memories, associations arousing from the imaginary and undermining the real. The poetry derives from the editing, from the wide range of colours, from the rhythm of its numerous evocations...

DONKEY SHOT

Stefan Bohnenberger
‘Donkey Shot’ was filmed with Super 8 on the way from Brussels to Marrakech. Freely inspired on Cervantes’ Don Quixote the story follows the adventures and mishaps of the infamous knight in a granular, playful and almost surreal style, through the eyes of his faithful donkey...

A PECULIAR FAMILY ALBUM

Amina Menia
“From 1953 to 1957, the Deputy-Mayor of Algiers Jacques Chevallier appointed Fernand Pouillon to undertake building projects: social housing for the benefit of poor Algerians. With this ambitious programme, Jacques Chevallier was planning to reduce the blatant inequalities between Europeans and the indigenous population...