OVERZICHT TITELS

BLESSED AMULETS

Ria Pacquée
As per usual Blessed Amulets is constructed out of images shot during Ria Pacquée’s ‘street ramblings’, the artist’s own term for roaming the streets of cities, of her home country as well as around the world, with a camera and capturing scenes of daily life she finds unusual...

DETERMINATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS

Jacques Lennep
A short conceptual work by this Belgian pioneering video artist about corporality and memory. The artist is in a room that resembles the lavatory of a school of gym. He takes off his suit and a female voice-over starts to sum up some of his physical problems and ailments: scars on the knee, a curvature of the spine due to scoliosis, angiomas...

NOTHING !

Messieurs Delmotte
A video-installation that was produced at the occasion of Brugge 2002 cultural capital of Europe. We see a suite of short sequences shot in the touristic centre of Bruges...

EVEN THE PROMPTER DIES

Erik Bünger - Manuel Saiz
Even The Prompter Dies is an experimental video that investigates the power of speech over images. Multiple voices – all belonging to the two filmmakers – wrestle for mastery over the footage, from various positions inside and outside the frame...

DIE LORELEY

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In this computer-animation, Van Kerckhoven links together portrait paintings she made between 1987 and 1990 of 54 people that visited her unexpectedly. These people are acquaintances, friends and relatives. She linked each person chronologically to some words of the poem ‘Die Loreley’ of Heinrich Heine (1797- 1856)...

POWER CUT

Sarah Vanagt
Three boys, Tonton (15), Dodo (14) and Daniel (12), took a series of photos and made short videos during the elections in Goma, Eastern Congo. With the assistance of the Congolese filmmaker brothers Petna and Sekombi Katondolo, the children wandered the streets of Goma with cameras they had been sent from Brussels...

HET GEEL VAN GENT

Jos De Gruyter - Harald Thys
In this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...

DANIEL BUREN (PALAIS ROYAL)

Jef Cornelis
For the installation Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels, 1985-1986), Daniel Buren (°1938) placed a grid of 260 black and white striped cylinders of different heights in the elegant courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris...

LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR MAG [FRENCH VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
’Les Vacances de Monsieur MAG’ tracks the development of René Magritte’s body of work, and it also sheds a light on the persona of the artist, as well as on his views on being an artist...