OVERZICHT TITELS

FLY

Shelly Silver
In FLY, the camera wonders around a room until it stops on a tapestry dominated by two peacocks in front of each other. Then, a voice over tells about a fugitive encounter....

FRONTAL TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte balances stiff as a rod, on the tips of his toes, with his forehead leaned into a tree....

7 COME 11

Peter Downsbrough
Originally, Peter Downsbrough made 7 Come 11 to document a 30-second piece he made in the summer of 1980 on the Spectacolor Board in Times Square, called: The Dice Are Not Loaded. “You could still play dice and three-card monte in the streets, if you were gullible enough. (…) But the dice was already cast for the old, sleazy, Times Square...

STANDING STILL

Marie Voignier
“In your film Standing Still, the myth of the white colonist finds its most destructive embodiment: the hunting guide. Hesitating in between a spontaneous violence and its religious imitations, he utters the most economical remarks about death images that assess the game of violence and culture...

A ROLE TO PLAY

Esther Johnson
a ROLE to PLAY brings together the lived experiences and dreams of Bolsover residents, one of the most deprived towns in the middle of England...

THE MIME AND THE APE

Erik Bünger
In the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...

INKTPOT

Luc Deleu - Filip Francis - De nieuwe Coloristen
In the dunes of the Belgian seaside town of Koksijde a bunker from World War II is with great deal of sense for detail transformed into a giant inkpot. This early video work is a collaboration between the utopian architect Luc Deleu, painter Filip Francis and the group ‘de nieuwe coloristen’ (translated as ‘the new colorists’)...

UN DIMANCHE APRÈS-MIDI À 6H DU SOIR

Jacques Louis Nyst
In both 'La clé du paysage’ and ’Un dimanche après-midi à 6h du soir’ the spectator is in the position of the voyeur, spying Danièle Nyst through a window. In 'La clé du paysage’, Danièle Nyst is sitting in the garden, flipping through a magazine. Her image is cut up by the window frame...

DAMES EN HEREN JAN FABRE

Jef Cornelis
An analytic and subdued critical summary of the work of Jan Fabre, on the occasion of the opening night of the opera Das Glas im Kopf wird vom Glas in March 1990. The topoi and motives in his work are commented on by Annie Declerck and accompanied by images from his body of work, from MoneyPerformance (1979) to Das Interview das Stirbt (1989)...

KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 3. WANNEER HET KUNSTBEZIT EEN PRESTIGEZAAK IS

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?", ’When art collection is not a matter of prestige’ is an interview with Frans Baudouin, the curator of the Rubens museum in Antwerp, on the occasion of the acquisition of a high-priced self-portrait by Rubens...