COLLECTION

CARGADORES [VERSION WITH SOUNDTRACK]

Joëlle de La Casinière - Carlos Ferrand - Jacques Lederlin
‘Cargadores’ is the first in a series of ten films that come further out of Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison’s seven-year stay on the American continent. The ‘cargadores’ referred to in the title are Cuzco’s street porters, human beings who carry on their back a huge bundle with all the sorrows of the world...

QUARTIER BARAQUE FRITURE

Luc Gobyn
‘Quartier Baraque Friture’ is a compilation film of the playful and adventurist installation. We see a stage full of old fuel oil containers rebuild as a set of trains or stage wagons. All of them tell their own story and have their own symbolic meaning: relics, stories, and memories – like browsing through an old photo book...

SOMETIMES, SOME OF THEM, HERE

Marie José Burki
« L’homme peut (…) bien perdre sa qualité fondamentale d’homme, sa dignité humaine. Seule la perte de l’appartenance à une communauté politique l’exclut de l’humanité » (H. Arendt) « because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place » (T.S...

DISCONNECTION

Sam Peeters
It’s been more than 10 years since the financial crisis wreaked havoc across the globe. Shrouded in mystery, the financial sector is most notable by its expensive office buildings scattered around metropoles. Shot at La Défense, Paris, this film contemplates corporate architecture and its effect on, and significance for, society...

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN

Emilio López-Menchero
Seated in front of the static camera, Emilio López-Menchero sings the famous classic Singin' in the rain. This short clip questions the notion of real time recording and it explores the possibility of the mirror mode of the handycam....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - TESTING

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
Instant video is like instant coffee. Images of a woman, dressed differently with every new image, who seems to be practicing her presentation. She keeps on repeating the same, strange sentence....

CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON

Charley Case
The DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...

LEFT BALANCE / RIGHT BALANCE

Wim Catrysse
Wim Catrysse’s Left Balance/Right Balance (2002) is a two-channel video-installation. On the left screen we have a bird’s-eye view of a dark space with a crouching man, stripped to the waist, wearing shorts. It is as if the floor on which the man stands is continually moving—he reels constantly and tries to maintain his balance...

HOBBIT LOVE IS THE GREATEST LOVE

Steve Reinke
A desktop video in five parts: 1. My Calling Card – A remake of Adrian Piper’s seminal work of the same name. 2. The True Legend of Stereo – In which a venerable European artist, with the aid of simple geometric figures, explains things. 3. Trauma in Retrospect – In which Reinke, also with the aid of diagrams, explains other things. 4...

ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR

Jef Cornelis
A document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...