COLLECTION

UN JOUR MON PRINCE VIENDRA

Marta Bergman
Some day, my prince will come… The life journey of three young Rumanian women in search of a Western husband. In the background we see their family conflicts, their precarious jobs, their blinding dreams. They put small ads to find this guy, and sign up with wedding agencies...

BONJOUR TRISTESSE

Robert Cash
Bonjour tristesse is a sober portrait of a couple of young men, smoking their cigarette. The viewer is left alone to construct a narrative to go along with the emotions their eyes reveal....

MARINE TARGET

Lukas Marxt
The surface of the Salton Sea reflects the glistening sunlight. Sediment colors the water green at times, at the edge of the image, almost bluish. The camera that captures this gentle flickering and flowing, floats far above a white rectangle...

GIRL WITH A FLY

Sarah Vanagt
Girl with a fly is an entirely silent video loop, which source of inspiration is a sound recording of a fly in a church, a sound file that Sarah Vanagt found on the Internet. In Girl with a fly, a young girl enters a church and opens a matchbox: a fly flies up from the little box into the image-loaded space. The girl then starts to record the sound of the fly...

NOTSTANDSBORDSTEIN

Wolf Vostell
In 'Notstands bordstein' [State of Emergency Kerb] the title word is projected continuously in white letters on a black background; the video refers to a dé-coll/age happening in Munich on 6 May 1969 in collaboration with gallery Van de Loo...

DECORATION

Florian Gwinner
In Decoration the camera spins around its own axis. Different arrangements merge. Plants, materials, electrical devices. A mini evolution of the constructedness of the world....

THE DESERTER

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
In the woods a strange character is discovered by the local authorities. A couple of scientists under the supervision of a doctor and an examining magistrate go into the matter and try to discover who the reticent man is....

BACKDROP

Wim Catrysse
Backdrop was shot in the landscapes of Alaska – a dry riverbed to be precise – and later digitally manipulated. Here, Catrysse has literally cross-faded various shots of landscapes with the landscape in the foreground of the image. The shots are taken in a remote area of Southeast Alaska, near an abandoned town where the world’s purest copper was once mined...

23 STOREYS

Ilona Ruegg
'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...

GE KENT DE WEG EN DE TAAL

Jef Cornelis
This is a film on country life, on daily life in a village. Someone ’who knows the way and the language’ can feel at home somewhere or is at least familiar with the vicinity. This popular expression suggests the relations between people within the seclusion of their village...