COLLECTIE

AND THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since the immemorial the Papuans have perceived the world of the rich Westerners as a sort of heaven. In their encounters both Papuans and Westerners have focused upon obtaining the riches of the other culture...

LES SOEURS LUMIÈRE

Karen Vanderborght
A digital short with primitive cinema looks about guardian angels, UFO’s, the lighting of the Belgian motorways and an un-erasable penfriendship...

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One of a number of possible portraits of The sculptor from Antwerp withdrawn from a film project about his person.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

COGELS OSYLEI

Jef Cornelis
This is a report on the Cogels-Osylei and the Zurenborg district of Berchem and an earnest plead for their conservation. We get a view on the new concrete buildings at the end of the Lei and views on the streets in the district and archive photographs. At the time there was a demonstration in support of the area, protesting against the local council...

THE PENSIVE

Hubert Marécaille
Confronted with a complete lack of thoudht while visiting his unknown fatherʼs grave and present at a scene of arbitrary violence, an office worker ends up drunk to forget the cruelty of the world, the jacket over his head as a sign of denial... and an ephemeral victory on the life....

S.O.L.

Edith Dekyndt
A violet shirt is hanged/ draped over a swing in the playground. While the light and weather conditions are changing – wind is coming up – the swing and the shirt start moving, like they have a live of their own. As in much of her work, Dekyndt investigates in this piece a method of perception for physical phenomena on the verge of the invisible with a touching and surprising result....

BRUNELLESCHI’S MIRROR

Justin Bennett
In Brunelleschi’s Mirror we find ourselves in the darkness, waiting for a glimpse of the world outside...

JAN BRUSSELMANS

Jef Cornelis
Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 11’20" Pictures of the Flemish Expressionist painter’s work in the context of the retrospective devoted to him in Bruges. Alternating with photographs of Jan Brusselmans working in his studio. (No spoken commentary)...

THE HOUSES THAT ARE LEFT

Shelly Silver
"The Houses That Are Left is a story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead...

JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969

Jef Cornelis
Documentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...