OVERVIEW TITLES

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: ENVOLEZ-VOUS

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
The reveries of a solitary driver on the highway are portrayed in ’Envolez-vous’. Images of collages suggest the things he is dreaming about. A man and a woman appear in the center of the screen, to sing the chorus of the song....

HEDENDAAGSE KERKENBOUW OP EEN KEERPUNT

Jef Cornelis
Inspired by the book ‘In een of ander huis, kerkbouw op een keerpunt’, in which Geert Beckaert reflects on modern church building as a critical function, a number of thinkers and writers, priests and architects (Renaat Braem, Godfried Danneels, Réné Geysen and Geert Beckaert himself) address religious patronage in architecture in the past and the present, architecture as ...

DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP

Harald Thys
In ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jef Cornelis
In this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...

INSERT COIN HIGHWAY CAR

Hans Op de Beeck
The viewer drops a coin in the slot machine and an image of a small child in a kiddie car appears. The car’s movement tips the child back and forth. Instead of enjoying the ride, the child appears sullen and unhappy. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

THE INTRUDER

Vincent Meessen
In this video bearing the programmatic title ‘The Intruder’, we see the artist—clad head to toe in an outfit fashioned of white cotton blossoms—strolling along the bustling streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The camera, which does not long remain undetected (and unexposed), accompanies the performer while simultaneously recording the reactions of the observers...

THE DEATH OF JAMES LEE BYARS

Peter Brosens
Based upon two performances / installations of James Lee Byars: ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’ and ‘The White Mass’. In ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’, the artist acts out his own death on 1 July 1994. Wearing a mask and dressed in gold, Byars lies in the ‘golden room’ of the Marie-Puck Broodthaers Art Gallery in Brussels...

S.O.L.

Edith Dekyndt
A violet shirt is hanged/ draped over a swing in the playground. While the light and weather conditions are changing – wind is coming up – the swing and the shirt start moving, like they have a live of their own. As in much of her work, Dekyndt investigates in this piece a method of perception for physical phenomena on the verge of the invisible with a touching and surprising result....

UNE FEMME ENTREPRENANTE

Sven Augustijnen
After weaving a tempting web of reality and fiction around Brussels Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) during ’Mission Mont des Arts’ (2002), Augustijnen points his arrows in ’Une femme entreprenante’ on WIELS, a new centre for contemporary art in Brussels, and more particularly to its key figure, Sophie Le Clercq, building promoter and the true ‘force motrice’ behind...

IJSBREKER 18: KUNST AAN DE KUST

Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Anton Stevens - Jackie Claeys
In this episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ there is a focus on the Belgian coast cities of Knokke and Ostend, who also have a history as major art cities. The Casino in Knokke was considered one of the main promoters of art during 1950-1970, mostly because of Gustave Nellens, who made sure the casino housed work by, among others, Margritte...