COLLECTION

CENTRAL ALBERTA

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Bestgore.com (BG) was created by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek in 2008. The website hosts explicit photographic and video material of events including murders, suicides, torture, mutilation and horrific accidents. With an estimated 40 million yearly visits, BG is currently the biggest shock site in the world. Through authored opinion and user comments, the website exalts extreme ideas...

BREATHING OUT-I-M-E

Charley Case
A blurry little shape in ‘(Breathing Out-i-m-e)’ keeps spinning, almost making it invisible against the white background. The sound accompanying it is like panting and it’s as if the vibrating shape reacts to it....

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

AILE 4 NEIGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
A science fiction story in which people disappear from the Earth and the machines keep on working. The fictive situations being inspired by objects from the Nysts’ immediate surroundings....

REALM

Laurent Van Lancker
Realm is an installation made of a 16mm film surrounded by different sound sequences. First of all, the physical and constant sound of the 16mm projector and its looper are self-evident manifestations of the mechanical process of projecting analogue images. The three different audio tracks bring us to imaginary places that sometimes sound domestic or, in other cases, distant...

THE WORLDWIDE WEB OF SORROWS

Koen Theys
The video contains a few hundred excerpts of clips found on YouTube, showing women trying to grab the attention of the viewer by crying in front of their webcam, sitting alone in their apartment. Some of them are silently sobbing, while others are loudly crying out their despair...

INSIDE RUMOURS

Hugo Pauwels - Sabine Van Der Linden
Some buildings radiate a personality of their own through their shape and environment. Apparently they exist there, in and of themselves, unaffected by time and human restlessness. Still, every window hides an existence. This is the short story of one of these buildings, filmed over 24 hours, in which flashes of the people that live there and rumours peep through...

THE LOST SAIL

Justine Cappelle
The competences is a series of videos in which I explore the incompetences I experience to express myself after breaking up a relationship. The first video deals with the incompetence to show. In the second I search for a way to represent the inability to feel. The third video is about the incompetence to speak, find words...

TWEEDE INTERNATIONAAL SALON DER AVANT-GARDE GALERIJEN LAUSANNE

Jef Cornelis
On his way back from Venice, Jef Cornelis stopped in Lausanne to film the secon International Salon of Pilot Galleries organized at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts on the initiative of its director and curator René Berger. The idea for it had occurred to him three years earlier: "I had this totally naive idea: how to get to know contemporary art on an ongoing basis.....

FILMER LE BAS DES MURS AU COURS D'UNE LONGUE PROMENADE URBAINE

Jacques Lizène
Lizène intended to film the base of the wall along a very long urban promenade, a project which would never be realized except for this trial shot on 8mm. The original scheme was, according to Lizène “almost very good, would have been very long and very boring”....