COLLECTION

BLESSED AMULETS

Ria Pacquée
As per usual Blessed Amulets is constructed out of images shot during Ria Pacquée’s ‘street ramblings’, the artist’s own term for roaming the streets of cities, of her home country as well as around the world, with a camera and capturing scenes of daily life she finds unusual...

POLYFONISTEN DEEL 1

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

Empty Head, Peter Finnemore, 2006. Courtesy the Artist

EMPTY HEAD

Peter Finnemore
In a wooden house interior, a cat is lying on a table, we recognize some elements of the artist camouflage like his hat and his sunglasses. Then, the artist enjoys to take away and put back his hat. By doing so, he discovers a disco ball that reflects the rays of lights: the cat doesn't seem to care about his joke....

Storyteller, Nicolas Provost, 2010

STORYTELLER

Nicolas Provost
’Storyteller’ takes found stock footage of the cosmopolitan skyline, recomposing and mirroring the images to create a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of space ships floating slowly through the universe, but quickly ’Storyteller’ reveals its source: images of downtown Las Vegas shot from a helicopter...

YEMMA (MA MÈRE)

Jen Debauche
As an ode to the song “Yemma” (My Mother), performed by Moroccan musician Ikhalf,  Jen Debauche registered the timeless poetics of desert life. Ikhalf plays the Loutar and sings his song on a mountaintop, while looking over his traditional Moroccan village, where human and nature thrive harmoniously under the burning sun....

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 20 : LA PIÈCE DE THÉÂTRE

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
Everyone is excited: tonight there’s a theatre performance! The public arrives in great numbers—the three decks of the bus bulge with theatre lovers. For the occasion, the stables have been converted into a theatre. Indian, Cowboy, farmer Steven and some other familiar characters stage the adventures of Zorro. Jeanine takes care of the tickets and the snacks during the break...

WHERE WAS I NOW?

Ken Kobland
A room in Brooklyn, New York, perhaps the room of the artist itself? The space reminds us somewhat of Hoppers famous interior paintings. When the clock is about to strike midnight, images start to appear on the walls of the appartement. Marlene Dietrich on the cover of Life Magazine, Superman, Nikita Kruschev, Laurel and Hardy...

ARBRE + PLUIE

Michel François
Rain ticks against a window. Through the window and through the droplets, we see a tree. This everyday image, usually overlooked, points out the poetic contrast between a continual time and a specific one....

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...

BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...