COLLECTION

UN JOUR MON PRINCE VIENDRA

Marta Bergman
Some day, my prince will come… The life journey of three young Rumanian women in search of a Western husband. In the background we see their family conflicts, their precarious jobs, their blinding dreams. They put small ads to find this guy, and sign up with wedding agencies...

19 KEYS VS 39 STEPS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Confrontation of the devilish mechanisms of film-making with the 19 Satanic Rituals to evoke the devil’s help. The structure of the movie was built on 19 stills of Alfred Hitchcock’s film ‘The 39 Steps’ (1935)...

UNTITLED (SHADOW)

Wim Catrysse
In Untitled (Shadow) (1998, single-channel-installation) the camera moves constantly in a circular corridor, like in Pursuit, an installation Catrysse made in the same year. The camera departs from standstill and starts to move faster and faster. Behind the endless bend the viewer notices an unidentifiable shadow that seems to be pursued by the camera...

CONTAINER 02: TUSSEN WAANZIN EN PERFECTIE

Jef Cornelis
"Between madness and perfection". A discussion around the exhibition Open Mind/Closed Circuits by the former Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent (june 1986), which attempted to situate so-called ’art brut’ within the contemporary art scene. This exhibition also had the intention of breaking through a ‘pigeon-holing’ mentality...

LUCES DEL DESIERTO

Félix Blume
Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert – it seems to be full of life. The residents tell us what they’ve seen: a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky, a flash. The singularity of each experience builds a complete story narrated by a choir of people...

MAURICE BÉJART (& MUDRA)

Jef Cornelis
Maurice Béjart speaks about the state of dancing in Belgium in a European and international context, the school programme and how pupils are selected for the Ecole Mudra. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Announcements...

Gand Est, 2007 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

GAND

Angel Vergara
Vergara films this piece from the Book Tower in Ghent, each time in a different wind direction. While the camera covers the sky and parts of Ghent, Vergara uses a brush. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies a catalogue from Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986 and featuring several art interventions set up in domestic interiors in Ghent...

RITUS

André Colinet
This film is told through flashbacks, but without making it too obvious from the start. A man raped a girl, whom he knew from his group of friends, at night on a street corner. Images from this incident reappear throughout the film. Inside an empty room, except for a table and some chairs, people are drinking and talking. Among them there are the girl and the man. He seems nervous and angry...

THE SPINNING WHEEL

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter make videos in their own typical style. Man is hardly a pawn in a game of chess, a tragicomic puppet functioning in a system which surpasses him. The style is minimalist, the characters are determined by the structure and they are limited in space, language and movement...

BLAD PAPIER

Gary Bigot
Bigot writes the number one on a piece of paper laying on a table. With his hands, he moves round the edges of the piece. Then the artist sticks a needle through the paper. In ’Blad papier’ Bigot investigates the texture and physical qualities of paper. New pieces of paper are numbered, then thrown away. The video records a game of lines, numbers and measurements...