COLLECTION

ACHTERBERG CONVERSION MODULES

Steve Reinke
Staying in Utrecht for a residency at Impakt Foundation, the artist observes from his first floor apartment Dutch football fans as they go World Cup crazy. He puts himself to work and uses a Dutch-English dictionary to translate some poems written by Gerrit Achterberg...

CARGADORES [VERSION WITH SOUNDTRACK]

Joëlle de La Casinière - Carlos Ferrand - Jacques Lederlin
‘Cargadores’ is the first in a series of ten films that come further out of Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison’s seven-year stay on the American continent. The ‘cargadores’ referred to in the title are Cuzco’s street porters, human beings who carry on their back a huge bundle with all the sorrows of the world...

NOCTURNE #2

Pieter Geenen
Registered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...

FLEUVE CONGO À KINSHASA

Marie-Françoise Plissart
’Un jour, l’avenir nous donnera raison’ (One Day, the Future Will Show We Are Right) will be a series of portraits of rivers. The selection will be based on their historical, ecological and geopolitical importance. Each river represents a local challenge which, at the same time, corresponds with a universal one...

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One of a number of possible portraits of The sculptor from Antwerp withdrawn from a film project about his person.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....

HEY! HET IS... HUM... DINGES... HUM... TARZAN!

Emilio López-Menchero
The starting point of the group show Over the Edges (2000) is the notion of corner. The curator of the show Jan Hoet wanted to highlight the corners of the city as structural accents...

SPACES THESIS PART 2 (WINTER 2)

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

COLOURING IN

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Colouring in is composed of a series of Super 8 film portraits of female friends of the artist who each share reflections with her on their philosophies of life, how they connect to the world and what nurtures or grounds them. Filmed in their domestic spaces, the film offers intimate glimpses into their worlds...

Shelly Silver, Jewish Baseball, 19XX © the artist

JEWISH BASEBALL

Shelly Silver
Different floral motifs alternate one after another on the background while an English running text works as a statement....

VLAAMSE CHOC

Peter Boeckx
During the run-up to the June 2004 elections Peter Boeckx follows the doings of Filip Dewinter over several months; the man is one of the heads of Vlaams Belang (formerly Vlaams Blok), the right-extremist political party in Flanders. Peter Boeckx makes clear that his report mainly focuses on the figure of ‘Filip the seducer’...