COLLECTION

DISSONANT

Manon de Boer
In Dissonant, Manon de Boer films dancer Cynthia Loemij while the latter dances for about 10 minutes to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 sonates for violin solo – a piece that holds vivid memories for her. The camera follows her every movement. A physical time limit, namely the 3-minute duration of one 16-mm film roll, interrupts the camera’s continued movement...

MOSCOW X

Ken Kobland
A camcorder diary and chronicle of public opinion filmed in Moscow during the fall of 1990, a time of huge political an economic changes in the former Soviet Union. The tape reveals Kobland’s own fascination with the diversity and complexity of the Russian’s reactions to such changes...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 79. THE BOXERS

Steve Reinke
Pure sensation. Pillow of flesh. White cotton sheets. Emerge into daylight. Spring mechanism....

Inventur / Invocation. I have watched ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE WATCHED ...

Ralo Mayer
What is the difference between watching and looking? Ranging from familiar modern technologies like Skype webchats and popular films to the favourite subjects of poetry like sunsets and landscapes, Mayer invites reflection on the process of watching and how it may shape the object....

HEY! HET IS... HUM... DINGES... HUM... TARZAN!

Emilio López-Menchero
The starting point of the group show Over the Edges (2000) is the notion of corner. The curator of the show Jan Hoet wanted to highlight the corners of the city as structural accents...

Mariage d'Art et Entreprise, 2004, Angel Vergara Santiago & Benoît Eugene © the artist

MARIAGE D'ART ET ENTREPRISE

Angel Vergara - Benoît Eugene
A recording of the performace written and directed by Benoît Eugene and Angel Vergara in collaboration with the collective plus tôt te laat (camera & editing) during the Lille 2004 festival. Art and Entrepreneurship are getting married by Europe (Imbal Yalon). Attending the ceremony are Industry and Insurance Institute, father and mother respectively of Entrepreneurship...

TOUCH

Shelly Silver
A man returns, after fifty years, to Chinatown to care for his dying mother. He is a librarian, a cataloguer and recorder, a gay man, a watcher, an impersonator. He passes his time collecting images - his witnesses and collaborators. Sitting in the dark, we look at them and share his cloak of invisibility, both a benefit and a curse. TOUCH is an essay narrated from one man's point of view...

THE DRESS

Ken Kobland
THE DRESS is a projection prop created for a performance piece at the Art Institute in 1984. It was installed in March 2021, suspended in front of a building on the Bowery as both a memorial to my grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant and master seamstress, and to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, which occurred a few blocks north of this site. (EJay Sims)  ...

EXPRMNTL

Brecht Debackere - Steven Dhoedt
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second 'World Festival of Film and the Arts' in 1949, organized in part by the royal cinematheque of Belgium...

SAME RIVER TWICE / DEUX FOIS LE MÊME FLEUVE

Amir Borenstein - Effi Weiss
In 1869, John McGregor, a Scottish adventurer and explorer, set out on a journey along the Jordan River from the river source to the Sea of Galilee. As he gazed down from the northern reaches of the Jordan he wrote: "To say the very least of this scene, it was at any rate pretty. What it would seem if bereft of its holy associations and remembrance of a hundred armies that came this way [.....