OVERVIEW TITLES

THE NEW FOREST

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
‘The New Forest’ was filmed with the Asmat in Papuasia (previously Dutch New Guinea). Several storylines and narrative styles are brought together, without real progression or a clear purpose, maybe apart from questioning the illusion of New Guinea as an untainted Garden of Eden...

YESTERDAY IN CITY PLANNING

Andrea Geyer
’Yesterday in City Planning’ - part of Geyer’s series of ’One-Minute Videos’ - shows the hands of a designer or architect in action – scale ruler and propelling pencil at the ready...

THE PERFECT SQUARE

Gernot Wieland
Gernot Wieland (born 1968 in Horn, Austria) worked for twelve years with an animal trainer who taught birds to fly in circles or squares. The title itself invokes the intellectual purity of geometric forms, considered superior by analytical philosophy to describe the laws of nature...

THE MELANCHOLIC

Hubert Marécaille
Despite his existential difficulties, not knowing what to say to his colleagues during the companyʼs evenings out and spending his leisure time doing crosswords, an office worker tries to convince himself of the success of his life : to have a wife, a house and a job, his dream finally realized, just annoyed by the sleeping pills his doctor prescribes for him to sleep at night and rest – his...

BRAINSTORMING

Bernard Gigounon
Stooping over a directory of Belgian enterprises, one cannot fail to recognize that we have a certain talent for abstraction when it comes to finding names for our companies. Bernard Gigounon likes to think of these as being the result of some very serious brainstorming sessions. Reading the names out loud one after the other, the artist reveals an absurd and incredible tangle of words....

KARAOKE PLAY FUJI

Bernard Gigounon
A white line (a read-and-write head) scanning the landscape guides the musical composition. By using karaoke as an inspiration, and while invoking the tacky universe that in Japan surrounds Mountain Fuji, Gigounon pays homage to this cultural symbol....

ELEVAGE DE POUSSIÈRE / DUST BREEDING

Sarah Vanagt
In this work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague...

MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER

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...

ARBRE + PLUIE

Michel François
Rain ticks against a window. Through the window and through the droplets, we see a tree. This everyday image, usually overlooked, points out the poetic contrast between a continual time and a specific one....

THE STREET

Jef Cornelis
The street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...