OVERZICHT TITELS

LESSONS IN BEAUTY (ANTOON VAN DYCK)

Stefaan Decostere
A portrait of Antoon Van Dyck, often called "the Mozart of painting". If there is an enigma about Van Dyck’s character, it is complicated by a scarcity of first hand accounts of him and the almost complete lack of letters by his hand. In the nineteenth century he was often cast, disparagingly, as Rubens’s brilliant but degenerate successor - effeminate, dissolute, irresolute...

THE THINGS (EUROPE)

Florian Gwinner
A tracking shot shows the slow transformation of a room model into a black plain surface, ending up in a roundabout taxi drive meditation. The repetition of variations of the same....

I AM A CONJUROR

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
A beautiful science fiction narrative which calls basic cultural preconceptions into question, this film follows the everyday lives of a couple who have altered the path of science as we understand it....

JOSÉ VAN DAM

Jef Cornelis

PROVISORY OBJECT 03

Edith Dekyndt
Like the pieces ‘Provisory Object 01’ and ‘Provisory Object 02’, Dekyndt’s video shows the membrane of a soap bubble, in this case stretched between the thumb and finger of a hand...

SOMETHING LIKE THAT !

Messieurs Delmotte
A video installation produced at the occasion of Brugge 2002 cultural capital of Europe. The installation is presented on a flat screen, mounted on the wall. A fishbowl stands on a table with a big coloured fish. A hand takes the fish, lifts it out of the bowl and throws it back in. This action is repeated continuously for about three minutes. The video is played in loop....

BATTLES

Isabelle Tollenaere
Is a war ever truly over? Battles reveals a past that has not passed, by patiently observing the traces left behind by recent conflicts in the landscapes and communities at four different sites across Europe. A bomb, a bunker, a tank, a soldier – four archetypes of warfare lead us chapter by chapter to places in Europe where conflicts have occurred in the recent past...

SLOW OBJECT 05

Edith Dekyndt
An object slowly goes up and down against a neutral background. Is it an air bubble in a transparent liquid? Or a balloon floating in the greyish-white sky? Edith Dekyndt does not disclose what the filmed object actually is. Like all other videos by Dekyndt, this short work causes us to become fascinated by the small, the unspeakable, the almost intangible...

SMALL LIES, BIG TRUTH

Shelly Silver
"In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S...

NIELE TORONI

Jef Cornelis
While in the mid-1980s in South quarter of Antwerp work a museum of contemporary art was being set up, a series of private art galleries opened their doors in the same quarter. In the gallery of Micheline Szwajczer an exhibition was on with new works by the Swiss artist Niele Toroni. Cornelis presents a detached overview of the works—comment and soundtrack are missing...