COLLECTION

Les films rêvés, 2009, Eric Pauwels © the artist

LES FILMS RÊVÉS

Eric Pauwels
In the work of the filmmaker, author and director Eric Pauwels (1953), cinema and life are inseparably intertwined. His documentaries, sometimes called ’half-films’, take on the role of memory, weaving fiction with ethnography and questioning the spectator’s impressions of the subject...

PANAMARENKO: PORTRAIT EN SON ABSENCE

Claudio Pazienza
One of a number of possible portraits of The sculptor from Antwerp withdrawn from a film project about his person. From that moment on, how is it possible to make a portrait, if the main person concerned is not there? The author resorts to ostriches, to archives, special effects, to evoke the world of Panamarenko....

Empty Head, Peter Finnemore, 2006. Courtesy the Artist

EMPTY HEAD

Peter Finnemore
In a wooden house interior, a cat is lying on a table, we recognize some elements of the artist camouflage like his hat and his sunglasses. Then, the artist enjoys to take away and put back his hat. By doing so, he discovers a disco ball that reflects the rays of lights: the cat doesn't seem to care about his joke....

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 6

Jacques Lennep
Another part in this series of short sketches, consisting of recordings of performances that took place on different locations in Belgium and abroad. In Episode 6, we see the artist - amongst others - walking through the alps with a broken foot, filosophing in the royal passage of Ostend and on the beach and preparing a huge 'homard à la mayonaise'.  ...

EXTENDED HORIZON

Lukas Marxt
Like a cultivated alien, Lukas Marxt wanders through a desert landscape guiding his reconnaissance by remote control. Everything is entirely normal, but both path and logic come to a sudden end at an abyss. Marxt perseveres while the sound of his alleged steps wafts away with the camera image into a void: three cheers for cinematic reality....

YOURS,

Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike Neuville
A group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...

CLOSED LETTER & NUMBER SERIES

Danny Matthys
A hand is dialing all the numbers on a telephone, from 0 to 9. Another pair of hands is typing all the letters of the alphabet on an old typewriter....

LOOK AT ME

Uri Tzaig - Avi Shaham
In the video Look at me, translations take place on different levels. With references to silent film (black-and-white, slightly faltering, silent, text signs, images with rounded edges,...) the work shows age-old elderly people, looking for a confrontation with the spectator in close up...

JEANLOUP SIEFF

Jef Cornelis
A report on several exhibitions taking place in Belgium: painter Raf van Cauwenberghe’s, Jack Goderis’s – a member of what was the ‘jeune peinture Belge’ at the time – and the selection of work by French photographer Jeanloup Sieff shown at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent...

BANDEKO BASI

Bie Michels - Paul Shemisi Betutua
The documentary Bandeko Basi by filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Bie Michels examines the position of women in Kinshasa, focusing on how they navigate both traditional and contemporary roles, particularly in relation to female sexual identity. Central to the film is Hana Kele (known as HanaKel on social media), an activist who champions female sexual identity...