COLLECTION

4 POINTS LIMITÉS

Jacques Louis Nyst
'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...

REPASSER L'IMAGE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep irons a towel. He duplicates the action by ironing also the image of his first action....

ROMANTICOS DE LAS MARISMAS

Luc Gobyn - Luke Aaron Clark - Luismí Garcia
When you look at a bull and you see the gleam in its eyes, it feels like you’re having a conversation with it. The feeling it conveys makes you feel like the king of the world. At the same time filling you with humility, because you know how much you owe to the bull....

1

Shelly Silver
"’The world will devour you....’ A group of cops laugh and talk, while scanning the street for suspicious activity. An extreme close-up of a sensuously exposed neck; a soft pink fleshy ear turns to reveal an inquisitive hostile eye.... 1 is a short tape about longing, threat, power and seduction, with the camera functioning in turn, as aggressor, mediator and confessor...

A NECESSARY MUSIC

Beatrice Gibson
A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. Roosevelt Island is a small sliver of land situated between Manhattan and Queens, intersected by the Queensborough Bridge...

SPECTRES

Sven Augustijnen
Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations, encounters and a return visit, a top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Elisabethville on that tragic day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past. To the sound of St John Passion by J.S...

GROUND SHOOTING

Emilio López-Menchero
In Ground shooting, Emilio López-Menchero walks around Brussels National Airport and records the floor of the airport. The artist is interested to combine the reflexions of the ceiling spotlights – visible on the floor – with the official multi-language announcements which prevent the passengers about the risks of forgetting baggages in the airport area....

THE MARCH, THE BURDEN, THE DESERT, THE BOREDOM, THE ANGER

Els Dietvorst
A documentary fiction with non-professional actors about their lives and occupations in a poor neighbourhood in Brussels....

JONAS

Olivier Dekegel
A short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...

EL CAMINO DEL TIEMPO

Peter Brosens
For the indigenous people in the Ecuadorean Andes, drinking has a very special meaning. It helps overcoming conflicts among people, and it enables the communication with the world of the spirits. In particular for the old people, drinking is like a river flowing slowly into the world of the dead...