OVERZICHT TITELS

CONTAINER 06: DE OORSPRONG VAN HET WARENHUIS

Jef Cornelis
Once upon a time, the ‘grands magasins de nouveautés’ were focal points of modern life. Their development, as described in Emile Zola’s Au bonheur des dames ("A Woman’s Paradise"), introduced the transition from a production’s to a consumer’s society...

THE MYSELF SCHEMA

Messieurs Delmotte
A well dressed man is standing in front of the camera. All seems normal, but suddendly a pair of legs is appearing on both sides of his body... This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

100 JAAR / 100 ANS

Jan Vromman
A simple but utterly moving ‘in memorium’ for 100 years of cinema as wel as 100 years of exploitation of the working class. In 1995, it was exactly hundred years ago that the Frères Lumière made their first film, ‘Workers Leaving the Factory’: the birth of cinema...

AVV-VVK, EEN SCENARIO / AVV-VVK, UN SCENARIO

Jan Vromman
How do you convince the government that they should grant your project on the theme “Alles voor Vlaanderen/Vlaanderen voor Christus” (“Everything for Flanders/Flanders for Christ”)? The decision-makers are not fundamentally opposed to it, but they want to see something to motivate their choice...

The Circle Marokko, Ria Pacquée, 2004. Courtesy the Artist

THE CIRCLE OF MAROKKO 2004

Ria Pacquée
From up-close, Pacquée films a craftsman in the streets of Marrakesh. Seated on the ground, he is making circles in round rusty plates. Without further explication – the sound on the piece is the one of a nearby goldsmith hammering – the viewer is left alone with this enigmatic, slightly disturbing image...

THE NOSTALGIC

Hubert Marécaille
Despite his preoccupations, his new wife and his financial worries, a real estate agent is still nostalgic for a young woman he met in the past. The employee thinks about her again, revisiting his past while dreaming of his death, and ends by almost wishing the death of the women he loved to be free of these thoughts, – a women who has found her place in the world : without him......

NEITHER “IN” NEITHER “OFF” (IN BETWEEN VENICE AND BIENNALE)

Messieurs Delmotte
In the summer of 2013, Messieurs Delmotte developed a series of performances in Venice while the Biennial was taking place. In different parts in the city of doges, he poses or interacts with his direct environment...

LITTLE FIGURES

Sarah Vanagt
"Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Philippino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy. Three statues, three children; an imaginary conversation. " (https://www.balthasar.be) In ’Little Figures’ Sarah Vanagt once again plays with her passion for history, perspective and social commitment...

GRAND PALAIS DEUXMILLEDIX

Luc Gobyn
Grand Palais deuxmilledix is an experimental film exploring the relationship between architecture and movement. The audiovisual production takes the viewer into the contours of the metal structure of the Grand Palais, Paris. The construction becomes the frame of the picture. Into the image appear silhouettes of fencers...

THE HOUSES THAT ARE LEFT

Shelly Silver
"The Houses That Are Left is a story of mortality, friendship, revenge, murder and the supernatural, as two friends come together to try to figure out how to live, while being besieged by malignant messages from the dead...