COLLECTIE

WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....

THAT'S THE WAY IT IS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte further explores his fascination for the hidden fantasies of the human body, with the intention of exposing it completely. In ’That’s the way it is’ parts of the body keep coming into focus, deprived of their context, conspicuously in the foreground of city views....

LE REFUGE

Nadia Touijer
In the outskirts of the Tunisian capital there is the graveyard of Jallez. Every day long silhouettes dwell about this immense place, looking for a job and some hope. This documentary develops into a serene reflection of a place where shadows rule, of small life in a place of death...

TOOLS FOR THE REVOLUTION

Andrea Geyer
A text calling for action appears over the animation of an opened, receptive hand. However, the music - Eric Satie’s well-known ’Gymnopedie No. 1’ – gets stuck, begins over and over again and so never evolves. "(.....

PAUL ET SES ORCHIDÉES

Jacques Lennep
Paul et ses orchidées is a sequel to Paul Van Bosstraeten, cultivateur d’orchidées. The work is part of the series Musée de l’homme, for which Lennep follows eight individuals who own a special collection or who have special habits.In this video Paul van Bosstraeten tells about his life and how he came to grow orchids...

Panorama, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PANORAMA

Angel Vergara
We see a panorama of Castelló, and while the camera gradually revolves around the city, Vergara follows what he sees with his brush....

TACATAC

Bernard Mulliez
A short, playful animation video, “realised as a porn flick” according to its maker. The narrative element is limited to a number of rhythmical and sensual shocks, taking the shape and sound of blurting machineguns....

AVALON

André Colinet
Avalon is the final part of a video trilogy in which André Colinet explores the changing emotions of various characters. Avalon shows the chance meeting of five characters. Their dialogues and their relationships waver between attraction and rejection, understanding and misunderstanding, solitude and love....

... AND

Peter Downsbrough
This film essentially consists of one continuous shot taken from the train window during its stop in the station of Metz, France. By way of prelude, …  AND opens with a fixed camera shot, a straight, razor-sharp positioning - an image of cars driving in the city. Then, we dive into the film by way of a traveling shot from the window of the train...

TORERO / TORPEDO - LE COL D'AUBISQUE

Emilio López-Menchero
Torero / Torpedo - Le Col d’Aubisque (2007) is the third video recording of the series of performances by Emilio López-Menchero. The bullfighter is confronted with the hors catégorie stage of the Tour de France, the Col d’Aubisque which is a mountain pass in the Pyrenees in the Aquitaine region of France...