COLLECTION

IJSBREKER 13: CULTURELE CENTRA (KLEINE)

Jackie Claeys - Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
Probably culture is something which has always been around. But apart from the culture which is just there, there is distributed culture as well. Implicitly this means that it gets through to big cities before anywhere else...

MOVING STORIES

Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost plays once more with the grammar and the codes of (Hollywood) cinema. With a limited number of images, an absorbing soundtrack and a minimal story line, the artist tries to stimulate the viewers’ imagination to the maximum. Moving Stories strings together some four fragments of flying passenger airplanes. Gleaming in the sunlight, they glide high above the clouds...

„HELLO, MY NAME IS…” …AND… “YES, I´M FINE.”

Gernot Wieland
“Are we holding on to the objects of remembrance – or is it the objects that are holding on to us?”Gernot Wieland links in „Hello, my name is…” …and… “Yes, I´m fine...

'SUB-'

Hans Op de Beeck
This video installation, a 3 by 2.5m film projection, provides us with a view to an escalator in an endless downward movement. The cold, self-reflecting strips light slides towards us over the stairs, and betrays a downward movement. In this symmetrical image only the metal of the escalator stairs can be seen: no actors, no props...

AN (THAUMATROOP)

Didier Volckaert
"A boy and a girl are making love on the filmscreen. This is a Cinematographic illusion, in reality they are never seen together on the screen. On the celluloid boy and girl are never together in the same photogram. During the making of this film the boy filmed the girl and she filmed him. Virtual sex by means of an old Bolex camera...

YODEL PORTRAIT PHIL MINTON

Myriam Van Imschoot
This portrait pays tribute to the British music legend Phil Minton and the many voices that live within his wide vocal range. Originally a trumpet player, Phil Minton developed a unique approach to his voice that sings back to the hum and din of the world. Sound is paint. The moving camera — as well as the light — encircle the singer as if meditating a riddle...

RIANTE CONTRÉE

François Vogel
The characters of this computer animation film have hardwired bodies with integrated monitors displaying organs such as hands, mouths, and buttocks. The integration of organic elements into a computer graphics environment provokes a sense of unease that is nevertheless quickly straightened by the playfulness of the male and females monitor-bodies...

MÉDÉE

Michel Lorand
The Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...

DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 4

Jacques Lennep
Another part in this series of short sketches wherein the artist brings an homage to some of the most iconic artists of the 20th century. Somewhere in between performance, lecture and slapstick, Lennep honors amongst others the heritage of James Ensor....

DELETE FOREVER

Félix Côte
Every day, thousands of people choose to remove their content from social media. YouTube, in particular, is home to a large number of ephemeral amateur videos in which people express themselves about their daily lives. Although soon deleted, these clips do present a sincere landscape of our connected societies. Delete Forever proposes a ritualistic way of safeguarding these personal videos...