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THE BUILDING

Hans Op de Beeck
'The Building' is a digitally-generated animation film which takes the viewer on a virtual, nocturnal walking tour of a fictitious, massive hospital. The facility has the mediocre, half-hearted, over-the-top architectural features common to hospitals, shopping malls, health clubs and airports all over the Western world...

Gospels, Erik Bünger, 2006 © the artist & producer

GOSPELS

Erik Bünger
With His terrible beauty, passion and drive, He has a profound effect on the people whose lives He touches. His presence generates a physical and spiritual experience, a euphoria that fascinates and frightens...

LIQUID STATES

Edith Dekyndt
For this year-long project, Edith Dekyndt regularly recorded the meteorology webcam images from coastlines in different corners of the globe, so that she could visit these landscapes without the sun ever setting. Seven monitors each broadcast the views of a single place, positioned one after the next in chronological order...

TEDDY DOG MOTHER

Messieurs Delmotte
A toy animal lies on a black background. Slowly, it moves shivering. When the camera zooms in, we see a knife going through its chest. The formerly rather small looking peluch animal is in fact a lot larger then it seemed. It even gives birth to Messieurs Delmotte himself. The work is part of Delmotte’s early ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

THE SKY IS ON FIRE

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
The Sky Is on Fire interrogates digital culture and memory through a virtual reconstruction of the urban landscape. Through the use of a smartphone application, it maps a territory by reconstructing it...

PROGRAM FOR A COLD PLACE

Edith Dekyndt
'Program for a cold place' took place in February 2000. People who never met participated in this temporary experience. The purpose was to film in the open air a domestic phenomenon: the explosion in low temperature conditions of containers filled with a liquid. The team went out from Winnipeg to install a laboratory up in the Canadian North, in minus 30°C weather...

WINTER PRAYERS

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Is every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...

LITTLE SPARTA, ET IN ARCADIA EGO

Jef Cornelis
Landscape artist, poet, sculptor, and painter Ian Hamilton Finlay is best known for the transformation of his Lanark farmhouse, near Edinburgh, Scotland, which he started in 1966. The estate is a miniature ‘republic’ of symbolic sculptures, temples, and conceptual artistic pieces woven into the fabric of his garden’s flowers and water...

GRAND PALAIS DEUXMILLEDIX

Luc Gobyn
Grand Palais deuxmilledix is an experimental film exploring the relationship between architecture and movement. The audiovisual production takes the viewer into the contours of the metal structure of the Grand Palais, Paris. The construction becomes the frame of the picture. Into the image appear silhouettes of fencers...

GETTING IN

Shelly Silver
"Starting with the deceptively soothing pastel hues of a sunny afternoon in San Francisco, getting in stages a collision between two rarely questioned phenomenon, heterosexual sex and real estate." (Source: https://www.shellysilver.com)...