COLLECTION

CLEJANI STORIES

Marta Bergman
Since the recent demise of violinist Nicolae Neacsu, one of the star musicians of the Taraf de Haïdouks, the atmosphere in Clejani, a Southern gipsy village in Romania, is drenched in nostalgia. As if Neacsu dragged with him the last remains of a just about bearable world into the hereafter...

CONTAINER 04: DE BETOVERDE WERELD VAN ART DECO

Jef Cornelis
A discussion about ‘Art Deco’, a term which caught on in the 1960s and it was derived from the “exposition des arts décoratifs et industriels” in Paris in 1925...

(GEDULD) WACHTEN, ATTENDRE, WAIT, WARTEN

Daniël Dewaele
During the twentieth century art has, for a great deal, shifted towards conceptual art, where the finished execution of an art work is of less importance then the idea behind it. This definition could be applied to Dewaele’s video. The image of a doorbell that says ’wachten’ (wait) is shown. So the viewer waits... and waits, but the image never changes...

FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 3

Claude Cattelain
Doing a video each day. Day 3: trying to dig a hole with the hands on the rocky beach....

NEAR AND FAR / NOW AND THEN

Ken Kobland
A two-part film, one part unedited camera footage of a late Autumn to Winter woods, and the other a highly manipulated blue-screen re-photography process. Each part mimics the action of the other. Each is involved with a background-foreground, motion-to-still image juxtaposition: with the whole to the part, the arrested moment to the one just gone, the nostalgia of space and time. (https://www...

MYRTLE BEACH

Jacques Louis Nyst
An early film by Nyst anticipating the work he would make years later: poetical ambience pieces, built around congealed memories, associations arousing from the imaginary and undermining the real. The poetry derives from the editing, from the wide range of colours, from the rhythm of its numerous evocations...

Karl Marx, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

KARL MARX

Angel Vergara
Here, the central point is Karl Marx and his residence in Brussels between 1845 and 1848, interspersed with references to the ideas of Joseph Proudhon, who criticised Marx’ historical materialism and who died in Brussels in 1865. A historian speaks, as does Luc Tuymans, who elaborates on history in a television programme...

THE TABLE TURNING

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film "The Table Turning" we see a table supported by four tortoises. The tortoises struggle amongst themselves to set the table into motion...

THE MUSIC BOX

Jef Cornelis
In 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot ’The Music Box’, a remake of ’Hats Off’, their silent movie from 1927. The location in both films is the same; the only thing that is different is the object the movers Ollie and Stan have to drag up: in the first draught it is an automatic washing machine, in the second a piano...

LA VIE COMPLEXE

Reinaart Vanhoe
A repetitious experiment made with a found footage-sequence. The image, showing a group of schoolchildren mounting a stairway, is blurred and distorted by wire fencing. The ragged soundtrack, at first totally incomprehensible, gets clearer and clearer as the image gradually focuses. "The complex life shows itself bit by bit to him’’, a French voice reads out at the end....