COLLECTION

CADAVRE EXQUIS

Ronny Heiremans
In ‘Cadavre Exquis’ Pierre Querut – a producer and B-film director from the 70s – is shown making a 35mm film in his basement. Before the film is finally introduced into the projector and played, a number of actions have to be performed, like gluing together broken parts and converting it to another reel, for instance...

EDGARD TYTGAT

Jef Cornelis
This short film, originally made for the television programme ‘Zoeklicht’, focuses on the late work of the famous Belgian painter Edgard Tytgat (1879-1957). The film was made on the occasion of the exhibition in the art centre Pro Arte Christiana in Vaalbeek, a village near Leuven. Tytgat finished his ‘Stations of the Cross’ the year he died...

LIGNES INTÉRIEURES (1ÈRE LETTRE)

Jan François
The first part of a ‘suite’ of three video letters, from the viewpoint of three prostitutes who write to their mother. They take stock of their lives, report on their experiences, look for answers to the question of who is responsible, who decides, who educates...

HEARING THE SHAPE OF A DRUM

Marie Voignier
It was the end of April 2008, when the sleepy Austrian village of Amstetten was shocked by the news about the so-called ‘Amstetten Monster’. It turned out that for years villager Josef Fritzl had sexually abused his daughter and that he had locked her up—together with three of the children he had father by her—in a cellar he had built especially for this purpose...

Panorama, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PANORAMA

Angel Vergara
We see a panorama of Castelló, and while the camera gradually revolves around the city, Vergara follows what he sees with his brush....

Le conflict, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PROLOGUE - LA VIE D'UNE OEUVRE D'ART

Angel Vergara
This series of films was shown in the summer of 2010 in the exhibition ’New monuments’ in the Middelheim museum in Antwerp. Angel Vergara set up a tent and a bar. The movies were shown in the tent. In each of these movies, images of lions and lionesses are combined with media images of Dutch- and French-speaking politicians, journalists and media personalities...

OJO GUAREÑA

Edurne Rubio
In the film OJO GUAREÑA we join a group of speleologists that enter the gigantic cave of the same name in Burgos, Spain. We barely notice the prehistoric traces and the contours of the spaces, but we can hear all the better: drops of water that, for ages, have been recreating the shape of the cave and continue to do so to date, as well as echoes of human footsteps...

DOCUMENTARY CREDIT

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
In economic jargon, “documentary credit” refers to a mode of payment that involves a bank between buyer and seller in order to ensure the buyer’s reliability. In the context of politics, “documentary credit” describes a kind collateral security that is not only based on the on the mutual loss of trust in each other but on the same time also recreates such mistrust...

JAN VERCRUYSSE, 1990

Jef Cornelis
The Belgian artist Jan Vercruysse (°1948) is best known for his photographic self-portraits and his sculptures. His oeuvre has been influenced by his previous practice, namely poetry, and by the theatre, but often it enigmatically refers to masterpieces and artistic movements of the past...