COLLECTION

SCRUB SOLOS SERIES

Antonin De Bemels
The Scrub Solos are the result of a collaboration between video-maker Antonin de Bemels and dancer/choreographer Bud Blumenthal. The first step was a series of slow motion improvisations filmed in semi-obscurity with a super 8 camera adjusted to a ’long exposure’ setting...

SAGA SACHETS, LÉGENDE DU VAL D’OURTHE ET DE L’AMBLÈVE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
Saga Sachets are light envelopes that are carried on air currents. They arrive shortly before spring at the Ourthe and Amblève valleys, where they land upside down. In this position, they murmur the stories that they have collected during the year to the planet. Our narrators attempt to uncover their mysterious origin....

ERNESTO "C’EST DIFFICILE DE VOIR L’AVENIR. JE NE SUIS PAS À DEMAIN. JE LE VERRAI PETIT À PETIT."

Sven Augustijnen - Koen Augustijnen
Ernesto Cortes, a young hip-hop dancer, lives in one of the many Toulouse suburbs. The story of the Chilean exile and his family slowly takes shape and meaning through the spontaneous events and interviews. Ernesto’s ramblings through Toulouse and the rehearsals for a nearing dance performance run through the documentary like thread...

EEN DICHTER IN TEXAS, H.C. TEN BERGE

Jef Cornelis
The Dutch poet H.C. Ten Berge is closely followed during a stay of several weeks in Texas. Ten Berge goes on the lookout for an image of this American state which nullifies the stereotypical one, closely connected to the popular TV-series ‘Dallas’...

ONCE YOU'VE SHOT THE GUN, YOU CAN'T STOP THE BULLET

Jayce Salloum
Two descriptions: 1/ Shot on location in Beirut, Bikfaya, Byblos, Jerusalem, Jouni, Kelowna, La Jolla, Las Vegas, Limosol, L.A., Mesa, N.Y.C., Portland, San Diego, San Felipe, Tijuana and Vancouver...

VANDALES ET VAMPIRES (NUITS SANGLANTES)

Lucile Desamory
In the twilight, an errant sleepwalker meets a vampire hunting for fresh blood...  ...

VERLIEFDE HARTEN OF DE LISTEN ENER JONKER

Jef Cornelis
In the mid-1970s artist and author Pjeeroo Robjee wrote a popular farce that played in the region where he lived. The play was performed in a popular theatre near Ghent by the locals. Cornelis filmed the entire performance, both onstage, offstage and backstage. During the preparations, we see the actors-locals being made up. While the public enters, the tension rises...

LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (FILM-DÉFILANT)

Charley Case - Manuela de Tervarent - Gauthier Keyaerts
On the occasion of the radio-transmission ‘Le Corps Verbal: un voyage sonore dans l'univers de Marcel Moreau', Charley Case created this pearl of a short animated work...

THE JOYCEAN SOCIETY

Dora García
A group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years. Once they reach the last word, a very enigmatic "the," they begin again with the first word, "riverrun." The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting...

Beirut 1963 / Beyrouth 1963, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2003 © the artist & producer

BEIRUT 1963 / BEYROUTH 1963

Mekhitar Garabedian
’Beirut 1936’ shows a photograph of a family group – the artist’s family - sitting on a sofa in a living room. The soundtrack consists of the Garabedian family singing ’Happy Birthday’ in a sequence of languages – Armenian, Arabic, French, Dutch and English...