COLLECTION

DU NOIR DANS LE VERT

Marie-France Martin - Patricia Martin
This video was created for the exhibition Speelhoven ’04 and was inspired by the cabane which artist Hans Op De Beeck developed in situ in 2001 for that same exhibition series. The work sits there like a drab observatory, with a view on two walnuts, lost in the middle of a vast, green meadow. One is alive, towering high above the caved-in remains of the other, dead tree...

SOUM

Alice Brygo
Three young squatters set out to occupy an abandoned bank. While waiting for the period to elapse from which they will be able to assert their right to domiciliation, they invest the building with their memories and performative games....

ROBERTE'S DANCE

Gerrit Messiaen - Peter Krüger
The rocking story of Roberte, 63, who dances away her sorrows on a Saturday night. She goes out, dancing in a bar, called ‘Metro Valdi’. The film is a tragicomic portrait of an old woman living in Brussels. This one evening reflects her whole life and portrays at the same time Brussels-by-night. (Source: https://www.intifilms.com)...

FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE

Jan Bucquoy
February 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [BRT VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
This film is part of a series of short sketches thematic focusing on the question Wanneer is Kunst Wel Kritiek? (When is Art Criticism?). For this fourth episode, the answer – which also serves as title – is “when the artist is toying around in all seriousness”. How can it happen? 'Many a true word is spoken in jest' seems to tell us the Belgian artist Jef Geys (°1934)...

THE PENSIVE

Hubert Marécaille
Confronted with a complete lack of thoudht while visiting his unknown fatherʼs grave and present at a scene of arbitrary violence, an office worker ends up drunk to forget the cruelty of the world, the jacket over his head as a sign of denial... and an ephemeral victory on the life....

AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOL. 5 - FIFTH A-CHRONOLOGY 1920-2007

Guy-Marc Hinant
"Here I am, for the fifth time, facing this impossible task no one has asked me to do. How can one bring together the history of electronic and concrete music to the history of noise music? For this volume, I want to highlight pieces illustrating a technique (Claude Ballif’s Points,Mouvements), a country (Shur, Op...

LOOKING FOR ALFRED

Johan Grimonprez
"I thought I was safe until you guys came along, digging up all those other Hitchcock lookalikes. Now we will have to find ways of disposing of them." Ron Burrage, professional Hitchcock look-alike...

THE BLOB

Gert Verhoeven
In 2001 Gert Verhoeven presented a first draught of ’The Blob’ (2001) on a wide screen at the Palace for Fine Arts (BOZAR). This video is a report on the World Pumpkin Confederation Contest in Buffalo, New York and Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada...