OVERZICHT TITELS

THE SOUL COLLECTOR

Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt asked various people to draw a soul in less than five minutes. In this video, the drawings are presented one after the next, following one another and presenting the materialisation of a thought as a process still in action....

OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

ET[-

Peter Downsbrough
ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...

DE ZEEMANNEN EN HET SCHIP

Harald Thys
In ’The Sailors and the Ship’ two former sailors muse on their past from their apartment with a view on the sea wall. A male storyteller’s voice recounts their tale. Once upon a time they were brave seamen on a beautiful ship, led by a fantastic captain. But the death of their beloved captain caused the two man so much pain and sorrow, that they never spoke again...

LIMBO

Laurent Van Lancker
In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. (Canto Primo, Inferno, Dante) The starting point of the project is the 5 channels video installation Limbo that physically aims to stage, through a vortex movement so dear to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the perpetual drive of migration...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 55. SYMPOSIUM

Steve Reinke
I dreamt that the University of Minnesota held a symposium of serial killers and Joseph Beuys gave the keynote address....

Doelvaranasi, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

DOELVARANASI

Ria Pacquée

VICTORIA

Lukas Marxt
The hypnotic wasteland of Southern California (USA) is infused with the free-spirited nature of Easy Rider, the alienation and uprootedness of Michelangelo Antonioni, and the deep transcendence of Werner Herzog. It speaks to us through fragments of dialogues from iconic films, and yet it remains elusive and dissolves into abstract shapes, rhythms, and compositions...

LOOKING FOR ALFRED

Johan Grimonprez
"I thought I was safe until you guys came along, digging up all those other Hitchcock lookalikes. Now we will have to find ways of disposing of them." Ron Burrage, professional Hitchcock look-alike...

FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2

Messieurs Delmotte
’Facts and Gestures Vol. 2’ is a compilation tape. The different parts can also be ordered separately. Content: ’Container’, ’Eiderdown’, ’Flying Pigeon’, ’Jumpy Chicken’, ’Jumpy Rabbit’, ’The Ladder 2 (alone)’ and ’With or without Clothes’....