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4 POINTS LIMITÉS

Jacques Louis Nyst
'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...

NOCTURNE #2

Pieter Geenen
Registered with a mobile phone camera in the spring of 2011, ’nocturne #2’ shows the central lanes and squares of Tehran, and its surrounding streets, at their most quiet and empty moment of the day. In recent history, the area around the infamous Azadi Tower (Freedom Tower) has been the backdrop of various protests, demonstrations, and violent repression...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 03. WATERMELON BOX

Steve Reinke
In 1953, J.C.R. Licklider, a computer scientist at Harvard, created the world’s first speech-understanding machine....
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BEGINNINGS

Roy Villevoye
In his work Roy Villevoye (1960) explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the heritage of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre...
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THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
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THE SHANGHAIED TEXT

Ken Kobland
In ‘The Shanghaied Text’ Ken Kobland reflects on our 20th century notion of civilization and progress. These are set against an apparently indifferent nature that continues to be calm and unchanged in the face of the struggle for dominance...

MYSTIC CHILD

André Colinet
Made in homage to Stan Brakhage, an influential American experimental filmmaker who died on the cusp of the digital age. Brakhage made "The Wold Shadow", a visionary visual approach, which inspires "Mystic Child". His work was also about art history: realism, figuration, expressionism, abstraction, surrealism and concept...

FLABBY CAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A 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...

VAN ABBEMUSEUM

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme on television Kunst-Zaken, Cornelis made a television report about the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (The Netherlands)...

MARC MAET

Jef Cornelis
For the current art events programme 'Kunst-Zaken' Cornelis made this film about the artist Marc Maet. The programme opens with an introduction to the new photo book Roland Patteeuw made about Maet...