OVERVIEW TITLES

LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR MAG [DUTCH VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
’Les Vacances de Monsieur MAG’ tracks the development of René Magritte’s body of work, and it also sheds a light on the persona of the artist, as well as on his views on being an artist...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 37. JASON

Steve Reinke
When I was eight my mother died and I went to live with my grandfather who was very old....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

COLOURING IN

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Colouring in is composed of a series of Super 8 film portraits of female friends of the artist who each share reflections with her on their philosophies of life, how they connect to the world and what nurtures or grounds them. Filmed in their domestic spaces, the film offers intimate glimpses into their worlds...

INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT / SPEAKING FOR ONESELF, SPEAKING FOR OTHERS

Elia Suleiman - Jayce Salloum
Jayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman take a shot at the western media’s image of the Arab world...

BATTLES

Isabelle Tollenaere
Is a war ever truly over? Battles reveals a past that has not passed, by patiently observing the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past...

DOUBLE TAKE

Johan Grimonprez
Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately flounder to say the right things, live on television...

THE RABBIT

Messieurs Delmotte
In this early video piece, Messieurs Delmotte seems to find himself in the setting of a magician: a table with a red cloth on which a cute little bunny is waiting. However, after the music started playing, some rather surprising action is going on between the artist-performer and the rabbit. Part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

THE UNCEASING DESIRE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte takes down his trousers and puts a piece of firework between his buttocks. He lights it and starts to run to a pond nearby. He jumps into the pond to put out the fire that scorches his ass. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

SELF-PORTRAIT

Frank Theys
A man keeps walking up and down from his computer to his window. He does not have a head. Blood is rhythmically gushing from the gaping wound, a hilarious and metaphoric self-portrait of the author. This video was shown on five screens spread out over the city of Courtrai (Belgium) for the Beeldenstorm exhibition and was used by Walter Verdin for his ’Title Safe’ project....