COLLECTION

PORTRAIT DU PEINTRE DANS SON ATELIER

Boris Lehman
"The film is a cinematographic encounter of two ways of looking – those of the painter Arié Mandelbaum and the film-maker Boris Lehman – and of a voice, that of the singer Esther Lamandier (Both Arié’s and Esther’s names mean almond-tree)...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 48. ARTIFACT

Steve Reinke
These images are from a film the CBC made in the early seventies called "The Children of Sri Lanka"....

BEING FUCKED UP

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
Being Fucked Up is a collection of nine short works about ego, happiness and holding on. It combines low-tech animation, performance, and beautifully written monologues to create a piece that is funny, intelligent, and above all human....

ALL MUST BE LOVE

Hänzel & Gretzel
Crime & The City Solution featuring Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) introducing themselves before being captured live in a smoky club. The camera got it all....

SET [ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...

SAME RIVER TWICE / DEUX FOIS LE MÊME FLEUVE

Amir Borenstein - Effi Weiss
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish adventurer and explorer, set out on a journey along the Jordan River from the river source to the Sea of Galilee. As he gazed down from the northern reaches of the Jordan he wrote: "To say the very least of this scene, it was at any rate pretty. What it would seem if bereft of its holy associations and remembrance of a hundred armies that came this way [.....

TURN AROUND

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte, most literally, turns around the block. He seems to pose a bit like a wallflower....

A SONG OF LONGING

Wendy Morris
A story of a search and a song. It is three hundred years since the artist’s family fled France when she returns to the villages in which they once lived. She walks a circle around these three small villages looking for a memory of their absence. She pays attention to the less obvious. She looks for clues in the weeds that grow on the verges. She listens for sounds that are missing....

Between Two Walls, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BETWEEN TWO WALLS

Ria Pacquée
The work of Ria Pacquée contains narrative aspects, firmly rooted in a social awareness, which do not seem to take shape until the final stage of the editing. ’Between Two Walls’ is a montage of clips showing the worship of people of different faiths in Jerusalem – in the streets, in the temples, at shrines...

ART SECURITY SERVICE

Bernard Mulliez
In the spring of 2005, the property developer Robelco, gave wide media coverage to a project for "revitalizing" the Ravenstein Galleries in Brussels. With the intention of "improving the image" of the Galleries, they invited several art galleries to temporarily occupy the many empty commercial spaces...