OVERZICHT TITELS
Zoek collectie
WALKER, IUT DE CHIMIE TOULOUSE LE MIRAIL
Thomas Bernardet - Florent MulotThis film is a visit to the Institut Universitaire de Chimie (chemistry polytechnic school) of Toulouse, near the site of AZF, a chemical factory which exploded in September 2001. The building was partly destroyed by the explosion and abruptly evacuated. It is now abandoned, but we are not its first visitors since the catastrophe....
LA FESSE NOIRE
Lucile DesamoryIn a convent, the punishment by a sadistic nun of a few mischievous school girls takes an unexpected turn... ...
DE STRAAT
Jef CornelisThere is not much more left of the street than – to use a term by Le Corbusier – a machine of movement, equipped to make traffic run smoothly. The street in its original and spontaneous form, as a breeding ground for new life, is restrained. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of new living...
AVV-VVK, EEN SCENARIO / AVV-VVK, UN SCENARIO
Jan VrommanHow do you convince the government that they should grant your project on the theme “Alles voor Vlaanderen/Vlaanderen voor Christus” (“Everything for Flanders/Flanders for Christ”)? The decision-makers are not fundamentally opposed to it, but they want to see something to motivate their choice...
Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonSamm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....
POINT AND SHOOT
Esther JohnsonA short animation in an ongoing series of formal experiments that take instruction procedures and mechanical apparatus manuals as source material. Quick-cutting juxtapositions explore photographic instructions from SLR and Bolex manuals for taking the perfect picture and sequence in time...
WINTER PRAYERS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIs 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’...
FRANCOPHONES
Messieurs DelmotteWith a gas flame on the background and while holding a cigarette, Delmotte talks to the viewer in French about different cities. He calls Montréal the little Paris of North-America and thanks Paris for its crossroads. Delmotte then proclaims that Brussels is a deaf city that will end up dying in tradition. He repeats his statements a few times and then he leaves the scene...
CAT FOOD WOMAN
Alison MurrayA parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
