COLLECTIE

THE LAST NIGHT OF THE NIGHTMAN

Els Dietvorst
A documentary about a 24 hours playbacknight in a poor neighbourhood in Brussels....

MARTIAL RAYSSE

Jef Cornelis
A document on French visual artist Martial Raysse, as he prepares an exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussel...

CRIME 01

Koen Theys
This is the first of two videos that are an interpretation by Koen Theys of the two home movies Adolf Hitler made during his lifetime. One of these home movies shows the german shepherd Blondi who is running on the terras of the Eagle’s nest in the German Alps. Crime 01 is the registration of a performance by Koen Theys held in a squat in Ghent...

EEN DICHTER IN TEXAS, H.C. TEN BERGE

Jef Cornelis
The Dutch poet H.C. Ten Berge is closely followed during a stay of several weeks in Texas. Ten Berge goes on the lookout for an image of this American state which nullifies the stereotypical one, closely connected to the popular TV-series ‘Dallas’...

COUP DE FOUDRE

Hänzel & Gretzel
In Coup de Foudre, Hänzel & Gretzel samples and loops movies' dialogues and the famous All Along The Watchtower in the Jimi Hendrix version. This soundscape serves as a background for a short video where we assist to the encounter between a man and a woman in a public toilette....

VIDÉO HEBDO 2

Claude Cattelain
Filming the rotation of a concrete block held with a rope.  ...

STARRING

Koen Theys
The images for ’Starring’ were taken from famous filmposters, coming as well from European production companies as from Hollywood or Bollywood companies. Close-ups of famous movies stars, seemingly separated from their bodies, move very slowly across the screen. Their expressions change, from fear to anger to seriousness and so on...

DON'T TRY

Claude Cattelain
Leaning backwards over the edge of a roof....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 52. LOVE LETTER TO DOUG

Steve Reinke
I think it’s true what they say in all those songs: falling in love requires overvaluing the tiny ways in which one individual varies from another....

DE LANGSTE DAG

Jef Cornelis
21st June 1986. With over 6 hours of live television the programme De Langste Dag ('The Longest Day') by the BRT network was one of the main participants in the art manifestation Initiatief ’86, an amalgam of exhibitions simultaneously unfolding over several locations in the city of Ghent...