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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 ...

FOOTBALLEUR

Michel François
For Michel François, beauty is to be found in everyday life, where emotion and astonishment are waiting. Begging in the Barcelonian Ramblas is a true matter of art and genius as Footballeur’s protagonist proves. This old soccer player sitting on the sidewalk keeps the ball bouncing in the air with his feet. For as long as he wants. Come rain or shine....

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

ALFRED LAOUREUX, COLLECTIONNEUR

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

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....

ISLAND FLYER: A POSTCARD FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT

Rebecca Jane Arthur
In Island Flyer: A Postcard from the Isle of Wight, Rebecca Jane Arthur takes us on a journey to an island in the English Channel in pursuit of summertimes gone by....

TOURNOIEMENT 2

Michel François
A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man....

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...

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PLOT POINT

Nicolas Provost
The crowded streets of New York City turn into fictive, cinematographic scenery. Provost is playing with our collective memory, its cinematic codes and narrative languages questioning the boundaries between a staged, suggested reality and authentic fiction...

AS ] THEN

Peter Downsbrough
In AS ] THEN static, photographical images are alternated with, among others, shots from a driving car. The recordings were partly made in the immediate surroundings of the former Wielemans-Ceuppens brewery in Brussels; the locations consist of building yards, the railroad, a crossroad and a railway viaduct. These images are linked to recordings made on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas...