COLLECTION

EMISSION NOCTURNE

Hänzel & Gretzel
On the Vivaldi's Winter theme from the Four Seasons, a series of still images of a young man in bed while he's sleeping, reading, dreaming....

AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)

Steve Reinke
The artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues and songs are largely improvised....

RANDOM WALK

Pascal Baes
A random tour through the visual world of Pascal Baes: images showing his fascination for wriggling, squirming life, tantrist diagrams and psychedelic spirals, microbiological systems and chemical bonds are alternated with edited film fragments from the performances by Aï Suzuki...

IETS OP BACH

Sven Augustijnen
In ‘Iets op Bach’ (‘Something on Bach’), the performers of Les Ballets C. de la B., directed by Alain Platel, are having a party in their dance studio. Slowly it’s going out of control. The event is filmed through the windows of the dance studio, from the roof of the building on the other side of the street...

STANDING STILL

Marie Voignier
“In your film Standing Still, the myth of the white colonist finds its most destructive embodiment: the hunting guide. Hesitating in between a spontaneous violence and its religious imitations, he utters the most economical remarks about death images that assess the game of violence and culture...

untitled part 4: terra incognita, Jayce Salloum, 2005 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 4: TERRA INCOGNITA

Jayce Salloum
terra incognita focuses on fragments of histories, of pre-European contact, contact, and settlement of the Kelowna (south-central B.C.) area though the accounts of several N’Syilx’cen (Okanagan Nation) speakers...

TRACE

Peter Downsbrough
TRACE revisits the site of an earlier Downsbrough video, A] PART (2009). The location for both works, Brussels’s iconic Citroen garage, opened to great fanfare in 1934 as the largest automobile service center in Europe...

A STRANGE NEW BEAUTY

Shelly Silver
A disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptively calm of this suburban landscape...

Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense, 1978, Boris Lehman © the artist

MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE

Boris Lehman
"’Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense’ is a living chronicle of the inhabitants of the Béguinage area of Brussels, so named because it is located over the site of the old béguinage. Conceived of as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film is composed of around 30 chapters interlinked like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, or an anthill of numerous and overlapping galaxies...

BLAD PAPIER

Gary Bigot
Bigot writes the number one on a piece of paper laying on a table. With his hands, he moves round the edges of the piece. Then the artist sticks a needle through the paper. In ’Blad papier’ Bigot investigates the texture and physical qualities of paper. New pieces of paper are numbered, then thrown away. The video records a game of lines, numbers and measurements...