COLLECTION

3 SHORT STORIES

Michel Lorand
3 Short Stories includes a video installation, Medea, centrally placed in the exhibition space, and three short video films, Cut, Camera Obscura and Epilogue, shown successively and continually in the projection room. Although the title may suggest otherwise, Michel Lorand is presenting four, not three, autonomous works...

ALLE DE TRANEN / EVERY TEAR / TOUTE LARME

Sarah Vanagt
In the 17th century, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, a draper from Delft, begins to make glass lenses, in order to better study the quality of his textile. He melts, drips and grinds small beads of glass. His tiny lenses are so bright and have such magnifying power that the draper seems to have entered a new dimension...

BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO

Gernot Wieland
Gernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...

MYODESOPSIES (PROBABLE SONG)

Edith Dekyndt
Myodesopsia is a term derived from Greek (muiôdès,opsis) and refers to the “spots” we see when we close our eyes or when we poke into them for some time, as this stimulates their appearance. One of the possible explanations for the observation of these small dots is that they have to do with remnants of tissue that belong to an embryonic state of the body...

ASS DANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
A short, though provocative, video where the camera shoots a naked body lying on a red surface. The body moves on the beat of the music while the viewer can read a text on the back of the actor....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 95. GHOSTS

Steve Reinke
Periodically, ghosts inhabit the bodies of the living....

FLASH BACK

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 40. UNDERSTANDING HETEROSEXUALITY

Steve Reinke
I’ve always been curious about heterosexuality and the fact that heterosexuals exist seems to me improbable, but you just have to throw a rock and you’re likely to hit one. They’re everywhere. I’ve tried asking them about the roots, the genesis of their heterosexuality but they are unable to understand the question....

VALERIO ADAMI, HOTEL CHELSEA BATHROOM

Jef Cornelis
Cornelis created this documentary about the Italian painter Valerio Adam for television, for the series 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' ('Public Heritage')...

LE CYGNE ET SON IMAGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
The title in 'Le cygne et son image’ soon becomes the white canvas on which Nyst has drawn what appears at first as a tail or a path. The screen is horizontally divided in two, the lower part occupied by the canvas and the upper by Nyst’s naked body. When the swan the title refers to appears, it may seem that it is its own image that it contemplates on the white surface...