COLLECTION

Something about today, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2008 © the artist & producer

SOMETHING ABOUT TODAY

Mekhitar Garabedian
Against a background of orchestral music by Sibelius, photographic images are presented with the colour drained. At first the screen seems to be one solid block of cream, but slowly some colour is faded in, providing outlines of shapes. As the viewer ascertains the outline of buildings, words are imposed over the image - a contents page is slowly provided...

Retouches et Réparations, 2001-2008, Boris Lehman © the artist

RETOUCHES ET RÉPARATIONS

Boris Lehman
"As I was shooting ’Story of My Life As Told by My Photographs’, part of which recounted my memories and the settings of my early childhood, I met up with my ‘oldest’ friend Richard Kenigsman (literally, ‘King’s Man’), whom I had known for more than sixty years. He had given me a photo album...

DE KUNST VAN HET BOOMHAKKEN / L'ART DE COUPER UN ARBRE

Jan Vromman
Vromman explores the role of women in society by means of the strangest of all byways. Subject of his documentary is the Flemish monk-missionary-priest-writer-photographer André De Smet. Centrally in De Smet’s thinking is -perhaps surprisingly for a Trappist monk- woman. In ancient time there existed a matriarchal in which a sacral sexuality was central...

THE NEW FREEDOM FOUNDERS

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
In this three channel video installation, Duke and Battersby explore basic philosophical issues such as time, language, revolution, and the paradigms of insanity. Each of the three channels runs a different short narrative. The narratives deploy tropes from genres as diverse as science fiction, French New Wave Cinema, Hollywood Film and Television, and 70’s conceptual video...

WK BOERELEUTE 2007

Luc Gobyn
A visual view of the World Championship Cyclo Cycling on Hoolede-Gits Belgium. Two screens are part of the installation with 32 flags....

THE SCRAP IRON AGE

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
For the Questioning History exhibition, Roy Villevoye and Jan Dietvorst produced a new film that, in a certain sense, is a sequel to Winter Prayers, a film from 2006 about memories of the First World War...

STILL

Michel Lorand
STILL is filmed in the curve of a motorway tunnel. The film, shot entirely in black and white, begins with the ringing sound of a gong, which takes several minutes to fade out. Together with the dying echoes of the instrumental sound, the images slow down as well, until the frame seems to freeze at the end of the film....

UNTITLED 5.03

Peter Downsbrough
During almost fifteen minutes the camera explores the transhipment buildings, warehouses and silos belonging to the Werf- en Vlasnatie in the port of Antwerp in endless, mainly horizontal travellings from a driving car. The endless docks turn into a poetical labyrinth with railway containers and trucks, loading docks, pallet boards and goods...

VIDÉO HEBDO 24

Claude Cattelain
Hoping to be able to record his dreams Cattelain sets the camera in front of him while he is sleeping....

RECUPERATIE-REÏNTEGRATIE

Raoul Van den Boom
A video recording of photographs, made by Van den Boom, of disposable articles and packages that were recycled. The intention of recycling is to give new purposes to objects that were meant to be used only once. A male voice-over and steel drum music accompany the images. Recycling for non-artistic uses mostly takes place in the Third World and in the margins of Western cities...