COLLECTION

EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)

Steve Reinke
Reinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....

GONG +

Philip Corner
"Gong + presents three previously unpublished compositions by Philip Corner recorded in New York City, 1974. ’Metal Meditations with Listening Center’, a 29 minutes long piece, is a collaboration between Philip Corner and Bill Fontana...

A ALEXANDRE SERGEÏEVITCH

Marie André
The story unfolds in the life of a young Belgian poet who, like the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin, has African blood in his veins. Sometimes the poet enjoys that life, at other times he puts up with it like everyone else. Poetry, music, play, good food are the elements of his existence...

GIRL WITH A FLY

Sarah Vanagt
Girl with a fly is an entirely silent video loop, which source of inspiration is a sound recording of a fly in a church, a sound file that Sarah Vanagt found on the Internet. In Girl with a fly, a young girl enters a church and opens a matchbox: a fly flies up from the little box into the image-loaded space. The girl then starts to record the sound of the fly...

UN VOYAGE À TRAVERS N-DIMENSIONS

Mira Sanders
In this travelogue I wonder by way of drawing a section of a photograph of Maastricht, what the concept dimension could mean. The film shows an investigation where a thinking and making is happening. I invite in the end the spectator to think further about the dimension in between the projection and the place where s/he sits....

NOTES ON BEING ON THE WAY

Mira Sanders
The film presents notes on “being on the way” from 'Un journal d'un usager de l'espace. Het traceren van op en rond een Heerweg' ('Diary of a User of Space. Tracing on and around a Roman road'), the thesis Sanders is working on to get her PhD in the Arts...

VIDÉO-FIL

Jacques Lennep
In his ‘relational’ video work Lennep investigates into art as an idiom and a structure; how to perceive art and the relationship between art and society. ‘Vidéo-fil’ is a recording of a performance. During a first act Lennep draws an uninterrupted, squiggly line on his face, with a black felt-tip, after which he envelops his head with tape...

TRANSCITY

Pascal Baes
Recorded in the frame of Netdays Wallonie-Bruxelles 2002, Transcity (2003) is an experimental silent video that combines repeated observations of passers-by and several recordings of the performances by Baes’ life companion Aï Suzuki...

A COMME ADRIENNE

Boris Lehman
"This movie is a gift. A gift for a lady. A lady that I love and who loves me in return. Adrienne is not my mother. She is not Jewish. She is 77 years old, about the maximum age allowed to read the adventures of Tintin...

A BROKEN RULE

Vincent Meessen
‘A Broken Rule’ is based on a performance realized by Meessen with collaborators in Burkina Faso. The video portrays African men taking turns carrying luminous text plates – often the only source of light in the image – through a nocturnal city...