COLLECTION

ROBERT, SEPTEMBER 2007

Manon de Boer
This series started in 1996. Robert is portrayed in three sessions, as indicated by the title dates (1996, 2001, 2007). Each time, Robert is asked to play his guitar, which is outside of the frame, and filmed on b&w film for the duration of one Super-8 reel film or 2’30”....

DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER

Alexander Kluge
As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...

TEMPORARY DISPLAY

Ronny Heiremans
‘Temporary Display’ is an account of the construction of a temporary platform at the bottom of Niagara Falls. Each year it is mounted in the same spot, only to be removed again because of wear and tear by the extreme circumstances. Because of the non-linear progress of the video it is impossible to distinguish whether the platform is mounted or rather pulled down...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 22. IN THE REALM OF PERPETUAL EMBARRASSMENT

Steve Reinke
I am a machine which produces sentences. A fish is a machine that produces other fishes, usually of the same species....

THE LAND

Pieter Geenen
While walking through the landscape the camera explores the so called Canadian tobacco belt of Southwestern Ontario in three chapters. In the footsteps of the first European settlers on the American continent, the viewer discovers how the historical process of colonisation, cultivation and exploitation of the land is still being reflected in present day reality...

THE NOSTALGIC

Hubert Marécaille
Despite his preoccupations, his new wife and his financial worries, a real estate agent is still nostalgic for a young woman he met in the past. The employee thinks about her again, revisiting his past while dreaming of his death, and ends by almost wishing the death of the women he loved to be free of these thoughts, – a women who has found her place in the world : without him......

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 31. LONELY BOY

Steve Reinke
When I was fourteen years old I was a fat kid - I mean, that’s putting it blunt. I was 170 pounds. I was a heavy kid and it didn’t look like I was meant for show business at all. But I had that bubbling inside of me and I wanted to sing. And I did....

OUTWARD-BOUND

Wim Catrysse
Outward-bound was shot over a twelve-day period in September 2010 which Catrysse spent on the flanks of the Kawah Ijen, a volcano in eastern Java that is known locally as a site of sulfur mining – an ancient industry that, somewhat inexplicably, has become a tourist attraction of sorts...

MY HOME IS ON THE OTHER SIDE

Yun Tien
I’m in contact with my family through the screen of my computer, even tough we are on opposite sides of the globe we share a moment together. Where is home? Here or there? I interview other people with a similar background. We talk about the reasons we left our homeland to seek a new life in Belgium. What will happen if I stay in Belgium? Will it become a new ‘home’? ...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 8 : LA BELLE EXCURSION

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
‘Une belle excursion’ (‘A Beautiful Excursion’) follows Steven, Janine, and Bénédicte that go on an excursion. On the coach, the organizer explains he is going to show them a farm that is ran by animals...