COLLECTION

MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ MARIE VANHAUTE! [VENDEUSE AMBULANTE D'ESCARGOTS]

Claudio Pazienza
The magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....

ONE SECOND OF SILENCE

Edith Dekyndt
In May 2008, Edith Dekyndt was involved in an Erasmus workshop which took place in Enschede (NL)...

CLAMOR

Edurne Rubio
People who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....

MINUTENFILME

Alexander Kluge
Minutenfilme are extremely short works in which Kluge delivers ironic commentary on historical events. In some of his Minutenfilme, Kluge works from existing images; found footage which he subsequently heavily condenses. In this way, the original material of say a few hours is reduced to a film of roughly one minute...

BALLOON MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte arrives at the scene, which is located in a park, wearing a costume covered with balloons. Fiercely he starts to pierce them with two needles. With each balloon that is punctured, his appearance becomes more visible. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2003 © the artists & producer

IT’S NOT MY MEMORY OF IT: THREE RECOLLECTED DOCUMENTS

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
Referencing specific historical records as memories which reappear in moments of danger, the work addresses the logic of the bureaucracy of secrecy in the current climate of heightened security. Through unacknowledged film, reassembled documents and images, three lost narratives of CIA activity in Iran, Yemen and the USSR between 1974 and 2002 are retold...

FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING

Els Dietvorst
A documentary film about Dietvorst's project 'The return of the swallows', which started in 1999 in the Anneessens district, close to the South station of Brussels. Fascinated by this 'transit' neighbourhood and the local population, the artist started a new project...

Familia, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

FAMILIA

Angel Vergara
Two families are presented. They are sitting together at the table and looking at photo albums. With a brush, Vergara follows their contours and movements...

JAC & JERI

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
Recorded in Agats (Papua) on October 6th 2001 and in Capelle aan den Ijsse (Netherlands) on March 1st 2002, Jac & Jeri gives an account about a shared history. Jeri talks about Jac's holdings, staying and activities in the Asmat region. Alternatively we see, in his home in the Netherlands, Jac watching on tv the report of Jeri...

BANDEKO BASI

Bie Michels - Paul Shemisi Betutua
The documentary Bandeko Basi by filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Bie Michels examines the position of women in Kinshasa, focusing on how they navigate both traditional and contemporary roles, particularly in relation to female sexual identity. Central to the film is Hana Kele (known as HanaKel on social media), an activist who champions female sexual identity...