COLLECTION

ELEMENTS

Laurence Vray - Charley Case - Bouchra Moutaharik
‘Elements’ is the result of the collaboration between the artists Charley Case, Bouchra Moutaharik and Laurence Vray. A shot of a wood lighted by a torch mingles with the sound of leaves and twigs cracking under footsteps. This image that so strongly appeals to the imagination gradually changes into an eerie face...

ATTENTION PUBLIC

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
A 10 minute experimental narrative telling the story of Karen Annasdaughter, a young woman raised by a group of radicals in the woods of Nova Scotia. With this project Vey Duke and Battersby aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the viewer which was not cleared before. "We want this space to contain empathy (identification) and joy...

appendix ii: clouds, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2001 © the artist & producer

APPENDIX II: CLOUDS

Jayce Salloum
appendix ii: clouds is a part of the ongoing multi-channel video installation untitled which, since 1999, Jayce Salloum elaborates focusing on notions such as borders, nationalisms, movements and subjectivity. This 15-minutes video shows an inventory of images of clouds, mostly recorded from an airplane, and is meant to be shown on monitor only in exhibition context....

INFORMATION SUR LA COULEUR

Jacques Louis Nyst
In spite of its title, this video is previous to the outbreak of colour in the Nysts’ work. A black and white photograph of Danièle Nyst is followed by an image of the “real” Danièle Nyst knitting. The camera tracks the wool thread and then offers us a close-up of the wool ball just as we hear a loud and clear “Jaune” (Yellow)...

PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3

Thomas Bernardet
The video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....

AN (THAUMATROOP)

Didier Volckaert
"A boy and a girl are making love on the filmscreen. This is a Cinematographic illusion, in reality they are never seen together on the screen. On the celluloid boy and girl are never together in the same photogram. During the making of this film the boy filmed the girl and she filmed him. Virtual sex by means of an old Bolex camera...

TROIS DANSES HONGROISES DE BRAHMS

Eric Pauwels
Eric Pauwels takes no pleasure in making pretty pictures, but is constantly searching. He is certainly not afraid of making less obvious choices. He likes to use the “plan séquence”, one long take that covers a whole movement. In doing so the camera fully confronts the unknown, explores the space and the body evolving in that space...

HOBBIT LOVE IS THE GREATEST LOVE

Steve Reinke
A desktop video in five parts: 1. My Calling Card – A remake of Adrian Piper’s seminal work of the same name. 2. The True Legend of Stereo – In which a venerable European artist, with the aid of simple geometric figures, explains things. 3. Trauma in Retrospect – In which Reinke, also with the aid of diagrams, explains other things. 4...

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...

PRISM

An van. Dienderen - Rosine Mbakam - Eléonore Yameogo
For PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin...