COLLECTION

ROND EST LE MONDE

Olivier Dekegel
In the company of a mule and a Super8 camera, a filmmaker walks through the world enchanted by the beauty of all things. Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi's "Praise of the Creatures", an enlightened and candid contemplation driven by the changing light of seasons. This film is an invitation to a voyage, a voyage around the world with the most simple and humble of all animals, the donkey...

ECCE HOMO

Robert Cash
48 - Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. 49 - And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. 50 - And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. (Matthew 26)...

THE MAKING OF… ‘JAMES ENSOR’

Chris Straetling
A reportage of the shooting of the ‘Ensor’ fragment exhibited in the ‘Mouvements’ show (KMSK / NICC) by Guillaume Bijl...

FOUR MANIFESTATIONS ON SIX ELEMENTS

Charlemagne Palestine
"Four Manifestations On Six Elements, one of Charlemagne Palestine most well-known works, has now finally been included in the Alga Marghen Golden Research series of CD editions presenting the composer’s relevant historical recordings. In 1973 Charlemagne Palestine was commissioned to make Four Manifestations On Six Elements by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York...

WER IMMER HOFFT STIRBT SINGEND

Alexander Kluge
Hope forms part of the genetic makeup of humanity. Hope is also part of evolution: it is part of the essence that bolsters the growth, progression, and development of plants, animals, and minerals. Scientists describe this process as ‘primeval trust’...

MIKKADO

Michel François
A clenched fist holds a bundle of mikkado-sticks. They can both be considered as cores. Each core is threatened by extinction. It hangs on, concentrates, contracts. The denser it becomes, the more imminent its extinction. The hand opens and the sticks spread out on the table....

DANCE

Hans Op de Beeck
In April 2013, at the invitation of the Red Star Line Museum, Hans Op de Beeck made the film Dance in the museum—a quiet, poetical film that is meant to make the public think about migration then and now. No less than 770 persons played the part of Red Star Line emigrants...

MG, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2006 © the artist & producer

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Mekhitar Garabedian
"A foreigner’s exile; spelling one’s name" (J Toufic, Distracted, 2003) In this work, the artist evokes a split identity, a doubt about his real position. Many migrants are forced to alter their names because their new neighbours and colleagues are unable to pronounce them authentically...

LE CYGNE ET SON IMAGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
The title in 'Le cygne et son image’ soon becomes the white canvas on which Nyst has drawn what appears at first as a tail or a path. The screen is horizontally divided in two, the lower part occupied by the canvas and the upper by Nyst’s naked body. When the swan the title refers to appears, it may seem that it is its own image that it contemplates on the white surface...

A FILM

Marie José Burki
In her video works, the Swiss artist and photographer Marie José Burki explores how the visible can be classified, formatted and categorized. Burki sets out from observation and plays with audiovisual codes. The arbitrarily entitled A film wants and doesn’t want to be ‘a film’. Conceived deliberately for a projection room — i.e...