COLLECTION

KINGELEZ: KINSHASA, UNE VILLE REPENSÉE

Dirk Dumon
KINGELEZ: Kinshasa, a city rethought… Kingelez (1948) is an unclassified Congolese artist. The setting of his artistic development is Kinshasa, a chaotic and obsolete metropolis. Kingelez gained international recognition with his large scale-models, which are all utopian cities in their own respect...

L'Atelier - Le Public, 2008, Mira Sanders © the artist

L'ATELIER

Mira Sanders
In ’L’Atelier (extrait)’, Mira Sanders brings together a set of imaginary figures personifying an audience in a scale model of a theatre space as if it were a micro-society. This is the first work in which Mira Sanders introduced human figures...

LA VIE POLITIQUE DES BELGES

Jan Bucquoy
The fifth full feature project of Jan Bucquoy fits in with an encompassing concept of ‘looking at Belgium in a specific way’. In this documentary he follows the 1999 election campaign of two mini parties. On the one hand there is Vivant, the party of Roland Duchâtelet, with a central topic of the right to a basic income for all...

LAURIEN, MARCH 1996

Manon de Boer
In 1996 Manon de Boer made a series of black-and-white portraits with Super 8 – her first time-based work. She filmed a couple of her friends during moments of intense concentration: Laurien reading a book, Robert playing guitar. These are moments when they forget, just for an instance, what is staring at them; they are unaware of the camera’s presence...

CANTAERT HUNTER 8906020

Ria Pacquée
In 'Cantaert Hunter 8906020’, a figure is depicted running through a cornfield. This figure is split into three, as the work cuts between three films of the woman running while wearing different clothes and hairstyles. In the streams, the corn leaves brush harshly across her face, simultaneously caressing and hitting her...

LIBERTY: AN EPHEMERAL STATUTE

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Stemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today....

PAUSE DE NUIT

Jean-Claude Riga
Between sunset and sunrise, while the majority sleep and enjoy their “night pause”, the men on the night shift work to a ponderous rhythm. Images, saved from oblivion, of a place where the age-old relationship between man and the elements still survives today....

OUT OFF

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

VICTOR BOURGEOIS

Jef Cornelis
An exhibition devoted to Victor Bourgeois was organized in 1971 by the archives of modern architecture at the National Higher Institute for Architecture and the Visual Arts in Brussels. This film is a presentation of that exhibition. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Presentation...

RÉPÉTITIONS

Marie André
André's fascination with the eloquence and significance of everyday gestures, particularly those of women, finds its perfect correlative in the postmodern choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker...