COLLECTION

DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS

Messaline Raverdy
Starting from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives and language games...

SPHERE 1

Michael Van den Abeele - Arnaud Hendrickx
The sphere’s size is indefinite. It is supplied with degrees of longitude and latitude. Its surface is being explored. The route to follow uncertain. The movement’s velocity and the distance towards the surface, with regard to the centre, is defined. The spectator is situated in or outside the sphere. He’s looking along the radius for as long as he wants or is able to...

TOPOLOGIC

Cel Crabeels
Crabeels’s work ‘Topologic’ records the prolonged contortions of a man attempting to put on, and to take off again, a piece of clothing. Here the body is used both as a terrain of experiment, and as a metaphor for artist’s labour of inhabiting space in general...

KAIROS

Alexis Destoop
Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the “right or opportune moment”. The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological time, the latter signifies “a time in between,” a break in the continuity of time, a moment in which something special happens...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 75. HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke works with found footage this time : an educational film produced by Canada’s National Film Board....

FLYING CHICKENS [PART]

Messieurs Delmotte
With a chicken in each hand the protagonist is launching himself off a sloping surface. The flight ends in a tumble, pulling along the two Galliformes. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

TSÉ TSÉ

Emilio López-Menchero
At the height of mad cow’s disease, of swine fever and dioxin crisis, the artist crossed the Dutch borders with Holland and Germany with a collection of live tsé tsé flies in order to show them to the tiny German village of Borken where the curators Jan Hoet and Michel Dewilde organised the group show Artline 5 around the dialectic of the notions of nature and architecture...

THE WAVE

Sarah Vanagt - Katrien Vermeire
In "The Wave" the archaeological gaze of the viewer is set in motion: a mass grave from the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) opens and closes itself. In 2011 we placed a camera above the spot where nine victims were buried after their execution by Franco’s supporters in June 1939...

BUILDING

Anouk De Clercq
In ‘Building’ sliding shapes in a graphical 3D animation style and contrasting black-and-white, suggest a building. Stairwells, pillars, windows, floors and ceilings emerge in the shadows. Lights sliding past reveal the architectural structure in fragments. The sound is the sound of night, the creaking, rustling and squeaking of an empty building...

LILI

An van. Dienderen
In a TV studio a girl named Lili (played by Belgian actress Maaike Neuville) is asked to serve as a so-called China Girl. China Girls, used in cinema history since the 1920’s, are women with Caucasian skin who are filmed alongside a colour-chart in order to adjust the colours of the film. They have no dialogues to memorize or characters to impersonate...