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Aznar, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist Aznar, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

AZNAR

Angel Vergara
José Maria Aznar was prime minister between 1996 and 2004. Here episodes from his years in power are shown in black and white. Vergara’s act of painting emphasizes and challenges the content of the documentary images. He traces the cinematic images with his brush, while the hand he is painting with moves between the images and a glass screen...

REMOTE SENSING

Ursula Biemann
’Remote Sensing’ roams through the territories of the global sex trade, moving us from orbit around the Earth into women’s lives, spanning the globe from Eastern Europe to East Asia...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PORTRAIT DE FAMILLE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A salesman suggests the viewer to buy a video camera, to make family portraits with. A stream of images of family members appear on the screen....

BABY ELEPHANT

Sarah Vanagt
A seven-year-old boy talks to a little elephant in the basement of the Africa Museum in Tervuren (Brussels)....

THE BENCH

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is lying under a bench. Suddenly he rises, making the piece of garden furniture turn over. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

MY BROTHER’S GARDENS

Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck based his video work on his short story by the same name, ‘My Brother’s Gardens’ (2001). In this narrative video work a group of young actors – narrators, as well as characters – move through simple backgrounds and scale models and a story is told about the complex relationship between three brothers: an identical twin and a third, autistic brother...
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THE BISHOP & THE DOCTOR

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
The Bishop & The Doctor is a splitscreen projection of two synchronously presented events both taking place in the Asmat in the Indonesian province of Papua, former Dutch New Guinea, concerning the activities of two typical exponents of the White Man’s Burden. In the right part a German Doctor operates on a Papua in what almost looks like a home, in order to treat a lump in his face...
PERSONA NON GRATA, 2007, Fabio Wuytack © the artist PERSONA NON GRATA, 2007, Fabio Wuytack © the artist

PERSONA NON GRATA

Fabio Wuytack
In the 1960s, the artist’s father Frans Wuytack worked in the barrios of Caracas, in Venezuela, as a priest and social activist. His actions led to him being imprisoned and deported on multiple occasions. In 2006, he returned to Caracas with an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and other art inspired by the struggle for justice of the barrios’s inhabitants...
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L'HOMME QUI COMPTE OU FERRARIS ÉTUDE

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
The setting for the film is the The Compte de Ferraris administrative building, where the Ministry for the Flemish Community is located. An actor, dressed in grey suit and tie, seems to mingle with the background. Over several days, he counts everything he points at with a white-painted stick: people and objects, different items in the canteen, countless records...

EN WAT ZULLEN WE OVER HET STERVEN ZEGGEN

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 03/11/1976...