COLLECTION

QUARTET

Wim Catrysse
In Wim Catrysse’s Quartet (2002), a single-channel installation, we see four men bending over. The camera films them from a bird’s-eye view. The men are inside a dark space and seem to find it hard to keep their balance on the moving floor. Though the characters constantly move slightly, they seem frozen, waiting in relation to each other...

GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM

Miguel Peres dos Santos
There’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...

SNUFF COQ

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte makes his own snuff-movie by killing a rooster with a sabre and throwing the corpse in a canal. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

MUSIC AT NIGHT

Steve Reinke
Piano practice, road kill, ice cave. Daffodils. The night is exactly like the day only less obvious. Shot and narrated by Dani Leventhal, written and edited by Steve Reinke....

I LOVE MARIE DE CORTE

Marc Vanrunxt - Robert Cash
Fragments of a dance performance by Marie de Corte. The solemn music and the darkness of the images create a haunting atmosphere....

Palais d'Egmont. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

PALAIS D'EGMONT. PEINTURE EN 1 ACTE ET 12 TABLEAUX

Angel Vergara
As in the works ’La belle Rosine. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux’ and ’L’arbre. Peinture en 1 acte et 7 tableaux’, a series of paintings forms the basis of this film. In this triptych of ultra-short works the artist applies a super-fast montage – introductions and end credits take longer than the actual work. In ’Palais d’Egmont...

SYMPHONIE

Boris Lehman
Symphonie mixes fiction and reality. Before the camera Romain Schneid tells us the story of his claustrophobia, which started when at the age of twelve during the Nazi occupation, as a Jew he could not leave the tiny flat where he was hiding. He relates his story and plays all the characters of his tragedy all by himself. He invents, distorts, imagines a different end...

VIVA

Karen Vanderborght
This film seems to be an ode to the free fall. It is moreover a mortuary cinematic card made by Vanderborght for a friend who jumped from his balcony in the village where he was born. So the memory of this village, this paradisiacal holiday resort of the filmmakers’ childhood, became more vacant than ever....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ARCHI / SIMULATION

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
‘archi / simulation’ is one of the video clips of the ’Video à la chaîne’ series, in which Bonnemaison and de la Casinière ironically deconstruct the imagery of television. Images of famous buildings are mixed with random TV blurps...

ATOMIC BOMB LOADING PIT

Lukas Marxt
The video reveals an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit in Wendover, Utah (USA), which was used during WWII to practice the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We hear a voice over, reading parts of the unclassified 37 pages user manual "How to build an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit", which was released and distributed in June 1946....