COLLECTION

DEUX OISEAUX CHANTENT

Jacques Louis Nyst
Two characters wonder about birdsong. One of them affirms that a page of text lies at the origin. The dialogue that ensues is evocative of a series of images of familiar objects and of the snowed over countryside of Presseux Village. The influence of the winter landscape orients the conversation towards the idea of whiteness and silence. The action slows down...

DE VERGEETPUT

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
'De Vergeetput’ is an observation of the vast basement compound of the arts centre De Singel in Antwerp, made at the instigation of curator Moritz Küng for the exhibition ‘Urban Dramas’. This exhibition displayed works in which the city was approached as a vehicle for fictitious as well as realistic stories...

ONE BY ONE

Marie Voignier - Vassilis Salpistis
One by one is a fifteen minute experimental film-collage, which is composed by a number of testimonies and texts relating to historical events and crisis in Greece. The assemblage converges the exploration of contemporary applications of the function of myth. To a great extend consisting of filmed photographs, even when in motion the images of the film suggest the stillness of a stable shot...

Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. flotte, Alexander Kluge, 1972. copyright

WILLI TOBLER UND DER UNTERGANG DER 6. FLOTTE

Alexander Kluge
After Der große Verhau (1971), Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet) is another unusual science fiction tale by Alexander Kluge. Shot on a deliberately low budget and stylistically intended to evoke the cinema of Georges Méliès, Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6...

VENISE 7

Claude Cattelain
A plastic bag floats in the Venice Laguna....

FROM GREEN TO RED

Claude Cattelain
Run up to the traffic lights ; press the crosswalk button ; run to hide ; the light becomes red and the cars stop. At the green light, run up to the traffic lights......

SET [ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...

Resting, Ria Pacquée, 2011. Courtesy the Artist

RESTING

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée made this piece by transferring slides and photographs to video. In different parts of Belgium and the world – large parts in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America – the artist shot hundreds of pictures of resting people. In most of the cases the subjects did not know they were ‘portrayed’ by the artist...

BAD MOOD WOMAN

Alison Murray
A tampon commercial with a twist for C4’s “The girlie show” on Rapido TV....

PRÉLUDE N°3

Bernard Gigounon
“It all happened one evening. I was in a bar, quietly having a drink. A man sat down beside me and as we were alone, we started talking together. We spoke about red wine, women and music and at this moment, I realized that this man was Claude Debussy. I told him that I made videos and explained my work to him...