COLLECTION

MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE PART 1/2

Boris Lehman
‘Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...

Un Peintre Sous Surveillance, 2005-2008, Boris Lehman © the artist

UN PEINTRE SOUS SURVEILLANCE

Boris Lehman
"After many years of friendship I wanted to make another film with Arié Mandelbaum, a sort of portrait of the painter 20 years later. Not to explain the unexplainable, or introduce anything lacking in the first movie, but just return to the central question of the nature of painting, of what a painter is...

THE KINGDOM

Pieter Geenen
The Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...

GROUND SHOOTING

Emilio López-Menchero
In Ground shooting, Emilio López-Menchero walks around Brussels National Airport and records the floor of the airport. The artist is interested to combine the reflexions of the ceiling spotlights – visible on the floor – with the official multi-language announcements which prevent the passengers about the risks of forgetting baggages in the airport area....

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....

HOW PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STORED IN THE BRAIN

Steve Reinke
‘How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain’ assembles an archive of photographs and phonograph recordings discovered in an empty house. They are not my photographs or (presumably) your photographs, so they stand in for the idea of a family archive. A ruthless animation, sentimental and quietly mocking, yet perhaps still able to evoke sadness and longing....

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In ‘Dance of the 7 Veils’, a fragment of Vanrunxt’s choreography ‘Sur scène’, the dancer performs his solo in a park in Schilde. Van Kerckhoven films the six minutes of choreography in one take. For three successive days, at six in the morning, at noon and at six in the evening, this scenario is repeated. These three takes are superimposed...

ATOMIC TREE

Charley Case
“We belong to this tree, we are all connected to the very same trunk. Even when we are far away, like the leaves, it’s still the same story. When a leaf falls, it turns into humus and so the cycle starts once again.” (Charley Case) ...

O.M.A. REM KOOLHAAS

Jef Cornelis
An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas in the building of his architectural firm OMA (’Office for metropolitan architecture’) in Rotterdam...

HOUSEWARMING

Effi Weiss - Amir Borenstein
In a two-dimensional dystopian landscape of deserted half-built houses in Albania, a new mythology is in the making. The filmmakers, perhaps a contemporary incarnation of Goldilocks from the tale of the Three Bears, invade the houses and occupy their empty, liminal space and its missing furniture...