COLLECTION

A LA MER

Emilio López-Menchero
In a calm and romantic landscape, Emilio López-Menchero stands on his portable and human scaled monument that consisted of two concrete shoe leathers. The artist faces the North Sea and records the passing of time....

THE DARK GALLERIES

Nicolas Provost
A fascinating hall of mirrors through a montage of film noir scenes where the actors face a painted portrait. This perfect blend of cinema and painting was commissioned to supplement a book study. Provost exploits the rules of editing to create an imaginary museum visit...

PANAMARENKO: PORTRAIT EN SON ABSENCE

Claudio Pazienza
One of a number of possible portraits of The sculptor from Antwerp withdrawn from a film project about his person. From that moment on, how is it possible to make a portrait, if the main person concerned is not there? The author resorts to ostriches, to archives, special effects, to evoke the world of Panamarenko....

LE GOÛT DU KOUMIZ [ORIGINAL RUSSIAN VERSION]

Xavier Christiaens
’Le Goût du Koumiz’, Christiaens’ first feature film, is all about the consequences of the communist regime for nomadic tribes in the Russian province of Kyrgyzstan. The narrator saw how his father, the chief of a tribe, was deported in the thirties, becoming isolated from nomadic life...

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....

Shelly Silver, TALK, 1980 © the artist

TALK

Shelly Silver

FOR NOW

Herman Asselberghs
In times of great turmoil, time comes to a standstill. The central two movements in For Now are horizontal panoramas shots and firm, vertical edits. They show shifts of place without the journey. Nature, the wind, movement that occurs all on its own: this would seem to be the film’s real subject matter. The film unfolds in waves...

YOU WERE AN AMAZEMENT ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born is a visually stunning film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy. With a score that follows the span of Lenore’s life, from her birth in the early 70s to her death in the 2040s, the film takes us from moments of harrowing loss to those of poignancy and dark humor...

BOUWEN IN BELGIË

Jef Cornelis
A documentary that attempts to analyse the process of building as it is drawn in the minds and mentality of the people who occupy the house. It is a cinematic expression that wants to present examples of the ways in which the occupants, oriented on the pragmatic, create their own environment in spite of the official regulations...

FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2

Messieurs Delmotte
’Facts and Gestures Vol. 2’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately. Content: ’Container’, ’Eiderdown’, ’Flying Pigeon’, ’Jumpy Chicken’, ’Jumpy Rabbit’, ’The Ladder 2 (alone)’ and ’With or without Clothes’....