COLLECTION

Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)

SILENT ELECTIONS

Sarah Vanagt
The power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...

CHRONICLES OF THAT TIME

Maria Iorio - Raphaël Cuomo
“Reconstruct the melody to reconstruct a chronicle of that time”. The film Chronicles of that time is in search of the melody a friend shared with the filmmakers 15 years ago when they were travelling together between North Africa and Sicily...

Gospels, Erik Bünger, 2006 © the artist & producer

GOSPELS

Erik Bünger
With His terrible beauty, passion and drive, He has a profound effect on the people whose lives He touches. His presence generates a physical and spiritual experience, a euphoria that fascinates and frightens...

KAMERA-KUSSEN

Bert Beyens
A man and a woman are kissing each other by means of a camera. We see two naked actors, a man and a woman, in a closed white space, each holding an identical small camera. They start filming, the lenses held close together. They part, let the cameras slide over each other’s body. After a period of intense observation on both sides the lenses approach again and a black image is formed...

Inventur / Invocation. I have watched ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE WATCHED ...

Ralo Mayer
What is the difference between watching and looking? Ranging from familiar modern technologies like Skype webchats and popular films to the favourite subjects of poetry like sunsets and landscapes, Mayer invites reflection on the process of watching and how it may shape the object....

SMOKE

Roy Villevoye
My new film Smoke on which I worked over the past half year or so, tells the story of my very good (Asmat-)friend Ndo, who got blind as a young boy. And how eventually he got new eyesight. It also tells of friendship and efforts made because of this. Of hope and loss. And of confusion dealing with all this and the unexpected paths life takes...

EGYPT 2002

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée’s piece is a video portrait of modern Egypt. Video clips of traditional and modern aspects of life in Egypt are juxtaposed. From architecture to mummified corpses in the desert, Coca-Cola advertisements to a busy traffic junction, wedding dresses to a reverse image of a statue. Pacquée blends the stereotypical with the unexpected, the familiar and the unfamiliar...

TELEVISION MAN

Michel Bonnemaison
The actor Enrique Ariman, in a state of ecstasy at the foot of Mount Sinai, raises certain still burning issues, even if, these days, they are acquiring a quaint charm. He is filmed by oscillation, with a small shaking camera, and does not blink once in 40 minutes...

DIVINATIONS

Sarah Vanagt
Children from Brussels, Athens and Sarajevo roll out strips of transparent tape onto the streets where they were raised. When they peel back the tape it is left with an imprint of the city: dust, sand, sweet wrappers, insects, glass, fluff ... An ultra-realistic diary that is brought to life by an old magic lantern. Do all these shapes and images tell us something about the future?...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER KUNST MAATSCHAPPIJBEWUST MAAKT

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”. ’When art creates social awareness’ is an interview with J.F...