COLLECTION

STASIS

Ruben Bellinkx
In the experimental film "Stasis" an unidentified number of men engage in an strange interaction with a table. The film begins in a half darkened room with close-up shots of feet, legs and table legs. Slowly the camera zooms out to reveal 33 men in suits; solemnly holding 4 tables, above the ground, with their mouths. The men are motionless and express no emotion...

POUR LA MÈRE ET LA FILLE

Olivier Dekegel
An impressionist elegy about spring, water, light and motherly love, shot from the shoulder on Super 8. Connecting colourful snapshots and intimate scenes the film constitutes a homage to the candour, the cordiality and poetical nature of amateur films, home movies and domestic holiday shoots, which have developed over a couple of decades into conventionalised visual representations of the world...

DE MUSICA INVERSA

Walter Marchetti
Tracklist Credits (source: https://www.discogs.com)...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD

Koen Theys
The performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...

APHASIA

Jelena Jureša
Aphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...

ANDY - NOVEMBER 8, 1996

Steve Reinke
‘Andy’ is a combination of a documentary portrait and amateur porn video. As Andy masturbates in his beautiful apartment, he describes in voice-over the process of decorating his house....

THE TABLE TURNING

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film "The Table Turning" we see a table supported by four tortoises. The tortoises struggle amongst themselves to set the table into motion...

MARC MAET

Jef Cornelis
For the current art events programme 'Kunst-Zaken' Cornelis made this film about the artist Marc Maet. The programme opens with an introduction to the new photo book Roland Patteeuw made about Maet...

FILIP VAN SNICK: STALL-OLOGY

Jef Cornelis
The Belgian artist Philippe van Snick (°1946) uses paintings, installations and sculptures to explore, analyse and create spaces. Using minimal visual elements, he relates his works to the space where they are shown and inspires the viewer to have a personal and individual experience of his works...

A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE, PART 1 SATURDAY

Jef Cornelis
’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm...