COLLECTION

A TEAR FOR A GLASS OF WATER

Orla Barry
In ‘A Tear for a Glass of Water’ the actress Tara Casey performs a fragmented monologue written by Orla Barry, to a static camera. A life belt is stranded redundant on the wall. Is it a rehearsal, a lecture? The performance is cold at times severe. Interest in religion has revived proclaims the performer authoritatively. So has toast and marmalade...

LINGUA IGNOTA

Edith Dekyndt
Hildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...

KINGELEZ: KINSHASA, UNE VILLE REPENSÉE

Dirk Dumon
KINGELEZ: Kinshasa, a city rethought… Kingelez (1948) is an unclassified Congolese artist. The setting of his artistic development is Kinshasa, a chaotic and obsolete metropolis. Kingelez gained international recognition with his large scale-models, which are all utopian cities in their own respect...

LE RITUEL DES 16 FACES

Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis Nyst
It is the year 25 in the Tsyn era. The Earth is threatened by a liquid invader and a resistance committee has sought shelter in a large basement. Terril Songe is one of its guards. Her day always begins with the 16 Faces Ritual. With her mutant friend, the strange bird of Nedea, she goes around the shelter wishing all the resistance fighters a good day...

WINTER PRAYERS

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Is every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...

3. CLONE ZONE

Lucile Desamory
Louise, married to the manager of a big bank, wants to escape her boring life. She is preparing a special potion which will enable her to clone herself.,Her husband is not pleased to see the result as he come back from work....

UNDERWATER

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte tries to get a grip on a rock under water, his face heading up stream. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

OBJECTIEVE ARCHITECTUUR

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Swiss architect Werner Blaser curated the group exhibition 'Objective Architecture—Skin and Skeleton 'in the National Higher Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Antwerp. Jef Cornelis made a television report for the current art events programme 'Zoeklicht'. The documentary features only photographs of architecture on four continents...

FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2

Messieurs Delmotte
’Facts and Gestures Vol. 2’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately. Content: ’Container’, ’Eiderdown’, ’Flying Pigeon’, ’Jumpy Chicken’, ’Jumpy Rabbit’, ’The Ladder 2 (alone)’ and ’With or without Clothes’....

DUNYALAND - A THEORY OF BOREDOM

Julie Gaston
The peculiar visitors of the utopian theme park Dunyaland confront us with metaphoric monologues reflecting the sensation of an inner void. Meanwhile, a contemporary Alice stands at the rim of the rabbit hole, wondering what she may find if she jumps in. Dunyaland looks at boredom from different angle and reminds us that true innovation is often sparked when there is nothing else to do....