COLLECTION

WALKER, LA CITÉ RADIEUSE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
This film is the Beta version of the “Walker” series, the first attempt at documentation of an architecture by two cameramen using the same camera. Experimenting the building as they stroll through it, they improvise an in-situ film scenario...

PLANET-X

Harald Thys
 In 'Planet X' two courageous astronauts—two awkward dolls—are sent on an expedition to Planet X, the last unknown planet. A lot of surprises await the two friends on their journey. As they test the weapons that are meant to defend them, they come into contact with a strange, primitive society.  ...

appendix ii: clouds, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2001 © the artist & producer

APPENDIX II: CLOUDS

Jayce Salloum
appendix ii: clouds is a part of the ongoing multi-channel video installation untitled which, since 1999, Jayce Salloum elaborates focusing on notions such as borders, nationalisms, movements and subjectivity. This 15-minutes video shows an inventory of images of clouds, mostly recorded from an airplane, and is meant to be shown on monitor only in exhibition context....

Franco, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

FRANCO

Angel Vergara
In a split screen, black and white images show the body of General Franco, the dictator who had governed Spain since 1939, being placed on a bier after his death in 1975, and the young king Juan Carlos, who would go on to lead the country towards a democratic regime. The images alternate with images of historical paintings and sculptures...

City of Progress, 2008-2010 Justin Bennett © the artist(s) & producer(s)

CITY OF PROGRESS

Justin Bennett
"A city could start like this drawing: first there`s an empty space and then an event: a dot on the paper." The animated film ’City of Progress’ traces the growth of an imaginary city as it expands from a single dot into a proliferation of lines and geometric forms, representing the physical development of a city...

Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
Samm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....

BUCHAREST 8 MARCH 2022

Mira Sanders
In the video Bucharest 8 March 2022, we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there...

ECLIPS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In ‘Eclips’ Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven uses a disturbed fragment from Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic ‘L’Eclisse’. The film contains a scene in which actress Monica Vitti turns her back to the camera. Her turn is digitally slowed down and further manipulated by Van Kerckhoven...

TELECOLOR INFLAMMABLE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
The famous act of the "poète dans une machine à laver" (the poet in a washing machine). Short promotional film in comical mode for a (back then) very recently finished book by Joëlle de La Casinière, Population active. Excerpts of it are read in different settings, accompanied by the beautiful and enchanting music of the "Fire-Stone" mantra....

Poulliart, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PATRICK POULLIART

Angel Vergara
Before the actual question is posed, Patrick Pouillard, who teaches drawing at the Ecole des Arts in Sint-Gillis, briefly elaborates on the difference between a school and an academy. He shares what the notion of freedom of the artist means for him, and is questioned about the comparative freedom of the artist who draws and the model who is drawn...