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MEETING FLORCHEN GORDON
Grace SchwindtIn this work, the artist’s grandfather remembers meeting his Jewish neighbour in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. He tells this story while iluustrating it with a drawing....
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...
VOMIT STAR
Steve Reinke - John MarriottIn 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...
DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS
Messaline RaverdyStarting from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives and language games...
BAREFOOT BIRTHDAY ON UNBREAKABLE GLASS
Rebecca Jane Arthur - Azam MasoumzadehIn Barefoot Birthdays on Unbreakable Glass, three women – Constance, Azam, Anna – each spend a day with the filmmaker in their homes...
DOUBLE TAKE
Johan GrimonprezDirector 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...
SILENT LETTER 15042009
Mira SandersThe fifth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 20th. As happened in the first, the last letter returns to an urban context. Themes of previous letters are referred to, such as the horizon and the guards, and elaborated in reflections on the difference ''between here and there''....
VICTOR BOURGEOIS
Jef CornelisAn exhibition devoted to Victor Bourgeois was organized in 1971 by the archives of modern architecture at the National Higher Institute for Architecture and the Visual Arts in Brussels. This film is a presentation of that exhibition. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Presentation...
EEN EEUW ARCHITECTUUR IN BELGIË 1875-1975
Jef CornelisA historical outline of 100 years of architecture in Belgium, with a focus on some of the major moments in the history of building. They are situated within their social context, and as a result this document is as much about ‘living in’ as it is about ‘building’...
JAN VERCRUYSSE, 1990
Jef CornelisThe Belgian artist Jan Vercruysse (°1948) is best known for his photographic self-portraits and his sculptures. His oeuvre has been influenced by his previous practice, namely poetry, and by the theatre, but often it enigmatically refers to masterpieces and artistic movements of the past...









