OVERZICHT TITELS

DIVE INTO MANKIND

Ria Pacquée
From East to West Ria Pacquée observes and films people in and on the water: in and on seas, oceans, rivers and lakes. From a distance she zooms in on actions and rituals performed in and around the water. The recordings range from explicitly religious activities – such as bathing in the Ganges or a baptismal ceremony – to bathing purely for relaxation and pleasure...

AMERICA'S ARMY

Jos De Gruyter
As the video ‘America’s Army’ takes off we see how two brothers, Christoffel and Ryan, transport home their recently acquired computer. They spend the rest of the time totally isolated from the world in their attic, playing ‘America’s Army’, a computer game in which the player is recruited by the Special Forces of the American army...

QUE SERÁ SERÁ: ENVOLEZ-VOUS

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
The reveries of a solitary driver on the highway are portrayed in ’Envolez-vous’. Images of collages suggest the things he is dreaming about. A man and a woman appear in the center of the screen, to sing the chorus of the song....

CONFETTIS FOETUS MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance in which Monsieur Delmotte is packed in a plastic bag, like a foetus in the womb, filled with confetti. Starting with his left arm, he frees himself from the bag and the confetti. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

AILE 4 NEIGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
A science fiction story in which people disappear from the Earth and the machines keep on working. The fictive situations being inspired by objects from the Nysts’ immediate surroundings....

LUCES DEL DESIERTO

Félix Blume
Strange lights appear at night in the Mexican desert – it seems to be full of life. The residents tell us what they’ve seen: a fireball, lights flying, lightning falling from the sky, a flash. The singularity of each experience builds a complete story narrated by a choir of people...

INCH'ALLAH

Ria Pacquée
An associative mosaic of tiny instances in images and sound, zapping from east to west, from Belgium to Tunisia, from France to Israel, Morocco or Yemen. A reflection of everyday reality. The video shows an important step in the evolution of Ria Pacquée’s earlier work, where she headed out into the streets with a camera, arranging her images around formal elements...

FLABBY CAT

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance in which Monsieur Delmotte stands in a prairie and lifts a cat two times by its scruff. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

DAGBOEK VAN EEN KRANKZINNIGE

Jef Cornelis
“Dagboek van een krankzinnige” (Diary of a Madman) is a television adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s eponymous short story. This classic story of modern Russian literature consists of diary entries from Aksenty Ivanovich Popryshyn, a low-ranking civil servant who lived under the repressive government of Tsar Nicholas I...

SYLVIA KRISTEL - PARIS

Manon de Boer
Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of the actress Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic ‘Emmanuelle’...