OVERZICHT TITELS

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...

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

Marie Voignier
How an individual or group relates to other things/the Other that are situated far-off, is highlighted in the absolute cliché of the tourist. For indeed, at his or her destiny the tourist who wants to escape the everyday narrow-mindedness is supposed to pay little or no heed to the ‘reality’ of the other place...

THE INTRUDER

Vincent Meessen
In this video bearing the programmatic title ‘The Intruder’, we see the artist—clad head to toe in an outfit fashioned of white cotton blossoms—strolling along the bustling streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The camera, which does not long remain undetected (and unexposed), accompanies the performer while simultaneously recording the reactions of the observers...

COMME S’IL Y AVAIT DES PYRAMIDES

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
In the heart of the milky way, on a starry planet, there are two houses each with a purpose. The first is a glassy pyramid which enables one to see more clearly. The second is a cottage within whose walls one’s imagination can run beyond the limits of the eye. That very day, Theresa chose the path in between the two houses...

Take into the air my quiet breath, 2007, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne © the artists

TAKE INTO THE AIR MY QUIET BREATH

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
In 1966, the Syrian government’s Ministry of Endowments solicited plans for a building to replace a 14th-century Mamluk mosque in Martyr’s Square in the centre of Damascus. A young architect proposed a design for a 5-star hotel and new mosque. In 1971, his plans were scrapped. In 1982, building started on a new structure...

BEFORE THE RAIN (A VILLAGE)

Hans Op de Beeck
On the occasion of the festival Europalia.India and the exhibition Indomania (Bozar, Brussels, September 2013–January 2014) Hans Op de Beeck travelled to the historically important religious centre of Hampi (Karnataka) to make a new video...

RAW MATERIALS

Justin Bennett
Based on personal memories reaching way back into time, Raw Materials creates a resonant patchwork with fragments of field recordings originating from divergent cities like Fribourg (Switzerland), Barcelona or Beirut. With a pitch-black image as canvas – a technique that actively shifts the attention towards the sound – snow-white text lines appear one by one in typewriter style...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974)

Jacques Lennep
This compilation combines short video sequences, recorded in 1974 and 1975 by the CAP collective, making them the first to use video as an artistic medium of expression...

IJSBREKER 22: CULTUURMANAGEMENT

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens
Discussion on how culture is managed and the relationship between this question and sponsorship...

ANTHONY CARO, POMPADOUR

Jef Cornelis
A document on Anthony Caro, generally considered as one of the key figures in European post-war sculptural art. After a period as an assistant to Henry Moore, Caro gave up on figurative sculpture to start making heavy, abstract, spatial steel constructions...