OVERVIEW TITLES

BEELDENDE KUNST IN BELGIË, 1986

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens
Originally broadcast on March 16th 1986, the programme Beeldende kunst in België, 1986 (Visual Art in Belgium, 1986) is a recording of a panel discussion that took place in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp...

KALÈS

Laurent Van Lancker
An initimate and immersive perspective on the 'Jungle of Calais', evoked by a polyphony of men, stories and feels. A sensory journey through the daily life of migrants, characterised by survival strategies.A film of wind and despair, of fire and solidarity, of hope and hell...

CROSSING ASIDE

Mira Sanders - Cédric Noël
The film crossing aside is conceived as a phenomenological portrait of the Annie Vande Wiele pedestrian and bicycle bridge. It approaches the bridge not only as something people live with and use, but as something that itself lives and makes a space...

THE GOOD LIFE (A GUIDED TOUR)

Katleen Vermeir - Ronny Heiremans
In the background technicians are installing a prestigious exhibition,whilst a smartly dressed lady is guiding a group of people around a series of pristine white spaces, some of them filled with crates and wrapped-up paintings. Along the way she not only comments on the art but also reveals the building to her audience from a unique perspective...

NUIT DEBOUT (INSTALLATION)

Nelson Makengo
darkness > in the depths of the working class neighbourhoods, in the absurdity of the rubble of endless nights,night > in this nocturnal shipwreck of the physical and symbolic power cut,resistance > abandoned to itself like a motherless chick, like a pot without a lid, like a house without a window, without a door, like a door without a lock, like a lock without a key.....

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...

GROUP - ED]

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (And, Here, As...) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ’La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004). The trilogy is partly based on ideas around urban space, architecture, transport and the distribution of goods, which Downsbrough points out as a necessary element in the human environment...

IDIOT'S BREW

Antonin De Bemels
The videos by Antonin de Bemels are - literally - attempts: explorations of the body and gestures, of rhythm and movement. He is fascinated by the importance of a single image and interweaves all kinds of visual stimuli in a complex associative network by means of the 'scrubbing' effect, the visual equivalent of auditive 'scratching'...

GIRLS | MUSEUM

Shelly Silver
We are born into an already-constructed world. We each enter with new eyes into a culture thathas already been shaped and structured based on the desires and power of others. Historical artmuseums are charged with preserving and interpreting the tangible evidence of a civilization’scultural trajectory and artistic achievement...

WARBURGBALLETTEN

Koen Theys
'Warburgballetten' was inspired by the life and work of Aby Warburg (1866-1929). It is an homage to this founder of iconography. The image is divided in two parts: a smaller one on the left, with figures from (mainly) renaissance paintings; and a bigger part on the right, with figures from propaganda posters that were made during World War I...