FOOTBALLEUR
Michel FrançoisFor Michel François, beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment are waiting. Begging in the Barcelonian Ramblas is a true matter of art and genius as Footballeur’s protagonist proves. This old soccer player sitting on the sidewalk keeps the ball bouncing in the air with his feet. For as long as he wants. Come rain or shine....
FIREWORKS
Messieurs DelmotteIn a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
FRANCOPHONES
Messieurs DelmotteWith a gas flame on the background and while holding a cigarette, Delmotte talks to the viewer in French about different cities. He calls Montréal the little Paris of North-America and thanks Paris for its crossroads. Delmotte then proclaims that Brussels is a deaf city that will end up dying in tradition. He repeats his statements a few times and then he leaves the scene...
FASE
Thierry De Mey‘Fase’ was a historic performance: it resulted in the birth of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dance company Rosas. Although many of De Keersmaeker’s choreographic works were filmed at a fairly early stage, many years passed before ‘Fase’ was finally recorded on film by director Thierry De Mey...
FOUNTAIN
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte takes his morning shower in the public square fountain....
FROGSORROW
Luc GobynA tragic tale of extras, side-figures in well-known and soon-to-be-created fairy tales, and, most of all, loads of kitsch....
FERMETURE DE L'USINE RENAULT À VILVOORDE
Jan BucquoyFebruary 1997: Louis Schweitzer, CEO of French car company Renault, makes the irrevocable decision to close the big Renault factory in Vilvoorde (Belgium) within three months. The Renault workmen immediately begin a strike and carry out a programme of action in Belgium and in France...
FORMULA FROG WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Luc GobynA video animation, evolving around 26 brightly coloured frogs in starting formation for the Grand Prix of Belgium....
FILE
Kurt D'Haeseleer‘File’ scrutinises the bandwidth between representation and immersion, showing a world of complexity. This work is trying to be a lot at the same time: video clip, essay, action movie, sociological study, documentary, soap and even commercial but above all a hermetic collection of sensations. A dated relation goes off the road and two people lose each other in overdrive....
FRIDAY FISHDAY
Jan BucquoyThe fifth part of The sex life of the Belgians tells the story of a man who refuses to or who cannot make love to women who smell strongly of fish. Returning to his native village Harelbeke and then to Ostend, film maker Bucquoy reflects on his aims as an artist and film director. “I’m fed up with making films for some hundred people. This time we’re going to be real machos...
FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [SERIAL]
Messieurs Delmotte“My work is not a performance – and actually even less of a good idea.” The videos by Messieurs – or Monsieur - Delmotte spare nothing or no one and they trivialize anything that comes within his reach, including himself. His works are not self-portraits, nor transpositions of the author in one or more imaginary characters...
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’....
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999, CITY OF LONDON
Charley CaseIn Friday, June 18, 1999, City of London, Charley Case witnesses the widespread rage against the capitalist system and the emergence of an alternative system out of the system, out of time. This work reveals great sensitivity to political and social debate and militate for a freedom of expression and total movement...
FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [PART]
Messieurs DelmotteA short video, part of a serial, in which Monsieur Delmotte pretends to be a German Artist. Standing in front of a door, he holds a seemingly very serious and highbrow speech in a language that is supposed to represent German. Only here and there words like “Ausstellung, Künstles, Sheisse,…” are understandable. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...
FRITERIE (SÉRIE): MADE IN B. – B. BY NIGHT – GOING TO B. – B TO ME
Emilio López-MencheroA series of video sequences on Emilio López-Menchero’s favourite chips shops. The work was presented in the frame of the exhibition FOODART-PLACES IN BETWEEN (2000) when the city of Bergen, Norway, was European Capital of Culture...
FRON'T
Charley Case“Democracy with a military brain is the same thing as art without a brain. In the world of political twilight, where art along with life loses its place, war is imposed as a natural catastrophe because "there is no other solution"...
FLYING PIGEON
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte hangs out of a window, holding a pigeon in his hand. He moves his arm around, while the pigeon is trying to flee. It looks as if Delmotte is trying to make the pigeon fly without actually releasing it. In the end the pigeon is cut loose. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
FABLE DE PLAGE OU LA LIBELLULE ET LE REQUIN
Joëlle TuerlinckxExample of a “film-récit film d’aventure”. We are shown fragments of the course taken by two objects fabricated on the beach and tied to balloons. The editing of the shortened version stays loyal to the chronology of the original shots. The objects work their way over the beach, slowed down every once in a while by obstacles or carried away by fierce gusts of wind...
FOSSILIZATION
Kurt D'HaeseleerThe video ‘Fossilization’ was produced as part of the ‘Memory Lane’ project, commissioned in 2005 by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The traditional idea of soundtracks as translation and extension of moving images was reversed for the occasion: five video makers were requested to produce a work based on a composition by David Shea...
FRANKIE D.C.
Jan FlorizooneA portrait of the artist Frankie D.C. First part of an ongoing series of artist portraits....
FRAMED
Wim CatrysseIn ‘Framed’ four men try to stay upright in an environment, which is softly shaking like a train carriage. Apart from the men nothing can be distinguished in these surroundings, the four of them move as little as possible and they try to hold their positions....
FEED BACK PAINT
Pascal Baes‘Feed Back Paint’ is based on a simple concept people have been experimenting with for several decades: video feedback, or in other words, what happens when a camera films a screen surface in real time, and the signal is sent back to the very same screen. The technique is simple, its behaviour unpredictable...
FROM [ TO ]
Peter DownsbroughIn FROM [ TO ], the image slides past a motorway, past countless trucks, petrol stations and containers. Objects are isolated from their environment and articulated in a repetitive, almost architectural structure....
FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1
Messieurs Delmotte’Facts and Gestures Vol. 1’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately...
FLABBY CAT
Messieurs DelmotteA short video performance in which Monsieur Delmotte stands in a prairie and lifts a cat two times by its scruff. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
FILMISCHE SNELSCHETSEN 2
Filip FrancisIn Filmische snelschetsen 2, Filip Francis gives another account of his quickly edited film sketches. Shot in super-8, he juxtaposes short sequences of interiors view of his atelier and artworks to external views of several neighbourhood in Brussels. ...
FLYING CHICKENS [PART]
Messieurs DelmotteWith a chicken in each hand the protagonist is launching himself off a sloping surface. The flight ends in a tumble, pulling along the two Galliformes. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
FRONTAL TREE
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....
FRIGOLITH
Michel FrançoisTiny Styrofoam balls, blasted by an invisible force. They seem caught in the screen. The fixed frame prevents us from seeing what they are in, where they are coming from. The tight framing closes the image in order to open it....
FIR TREE
Messieurs DelmotteIn a public park the protagonist approaches a pine with a small ladder. He unfolds it, takes a run up, and jumps into a tree, desperately trying to clench on to it. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
FLYING CHICKENS [SERIAL]
Messieurs DelmotteFlying Chickens is cycle of 13 videos. The different parts can also be ordered separately...
