COLLECTION

FILE

Kurt D'Haeseleer
‘File’ scrutinises the bandwidth between representation and immersion, showing a world of complexity. This work is trying to be a lot at the same time: video clip, essay, action movie, sociological study, documentary, soap and even commercial but above all a hermetic collection of sensations. A dated relation goes off the road and two people lose each other in overdrive....

Something about today, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2008 © the artist & producer

SOMETHING ABOUT TODAY

Mekhitar Garabedian
Against a background of orchestral music by Sibelius, photographic images are presented with the colour drained. At first the screen seems to be one solid block of cream, but slowly some colour is faded in, providing outlines of shapes. As the viewer ascertains the outline of buildings, words are imposed over the image - a contents page is slowly provided...

FOUR MANIFESTATIONS ON SIX ELEMENTS

Charlemagne Palestine
"Four Manifestations On Six Elements, one of Charlemagne Palestine most well-known works, has now finally been included in the Alga Marghen Golden Research series of CD editions presenting the composer’s relevant historical recordings. In 1973 Charlemagne Palestine was commissioned to make Four Manifestations On Six Elements by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York...

MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ JACQUES BAUDUIN! [PRÉSIDENT DU PARTI ECOLO EN AVRIL 2002]

Claudio Pazienza
The magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....

THE PAINTERS

Nicolas Provost
In 'Long Live The New Flesh' Nicolas Provost adapted a number of horror films. Now he tackles this other genre film. We see drip painters at work, blobs flying around. Form and content spatter from the screen. A film that appears to be modelled out of digital clay, on the borderline between beauty and taboo....

THE SURRENDER OF BREDA

Luc Gobyn
Inspired by the painting of Diego Velasquez, ‘The Surrender of Breda’, an image of the mayor of Cuéllar before the start of the bullrunning....

UBUNDU

Jelena Jureša
Jelena Jureša’s Ubundu, a film poem filmed at Antwerp Zoo, portrays the okapi, an animal exhibited for the first time in Antwerp in 1919 (the nine-month-old animal was an instant sensation, but within a month it grew weaker and eventually died)...

DON'T TRY

Claude Cattelain
Leaning backwards over the edge of a roof....

L'ANIMATION À L'ÈRE DES MÉDIAS

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Enrique Ariman reads from an essay by futurist artist Derrick de Kerckhove, on the cultural and social impact of the electronic media. Inspired by the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, de Kerckhove describes a new electronic reality, in which television plays a central part. At the same time the visual language also reflects on television, his visual language and genealogy...

CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON

Charley Case
The DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...