COLLECTION

OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ [ORIGINAL RUSSIAN VERSION]

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

CONTAINED MOBILITY

Ursula Biemann
’Contained Mobility’ concentrates on the suspended time-space of translocal existences, and the politics of mobility and containment. The video project looks at the situation currently emerging from the changes to, and prompted by, the regulation of movement across Europe’s borders...

COVERING #1: BEAUTIFUL

Luc Compernol
A static image of a vase with flowers in front of a window, graphically and rhythmically manipulated on a version of Minnie Ripperton’s ‘Lovin’ You’, sung by the filmmaker. This combination of image and sound generates a lot of associations, ranging from funny and comic too silly and pathetic....

VOAEX

Wolf Vostell
In the magical surroundings of the museum, a former launder- ette has been recycled for the video 'VOAEX'. This video features a series of concrete sculptures in front of the panorama and the gardens of the Museo Vostell, with huge rocks that are integrated in the work. (Berta Sichel)...

PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS

Filip Francis
A series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....

ALUMINIUM RABBITS

Messieurs Delmotte
In this sketch Messieurs Delmotte wears an aluminium mask, aluminium bunny ears and aluminium gloves. With a remote control, he navigates an aluminium bunny-on-wheels. The bunny makes circles around Delmotte and collides with him several times. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

TANIA, MODÈLE POUR PHOTOS DE CHARME

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very least, an unusual passion...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 65. MURIEL

Steve Reinke
I remember when he took me to the fair. I put on ribbons and my prettiest dress....

THIEVERY AND SONGS

Gernot Wieland
In Thievery and Songs Gernot Wieland has made an exceptionally beautiful, tragicomic and humerous work, framed by the story of a dancer, Hilde Holger, who had to flee from Austria into exile in Bombay in 1938 because she was jewish.
 This collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, Claymation and his father´s photos...