COLLECTIE

O (ZERO)

Emilio López-Menchero
Part of the Mirror Mode series, O (zero) is a short video by Emilio López-Menchero. The fix camera films the artist’s body and more precisely his abdomen. While establishing a relation with the reversed screen display of the camera, the artist try to move his body in order to delimit the frame of the camera with his belly button....

WANDELING

Rudi Rommens
The camera is moving slowly along a ’polder’ landscape. The viewer gets to see the things the hiker does. There’s no road nor any human presence, only nature....

KINT, DE L'AUTRE CÔTÉ

Olga Baillif
In 1956, several weeks after the Russian attack, Baillif’s mother escaped from Hungary. Because she never discussed her life before this departure from Budapest, nor her relatives, Olga Baillif decided to go on a search in this documentary, for the story of her mother, the family which stayed behind and memories in the historical context...

AN (THAUMATROOP)

Didier Volckaert
"A boy and a girl are making love on the filmscreen. This is a Cinematographic illusion, in reality they are never seen together on the screen. On the celluloid boy and girl are never together in the same photogram. During the making of this film the boy filmed the girl and she filmed him. Virtual sex by means of an old Bolex camera...

DANS LA MACHINE

Hänzel & Gretzel
A physical crescendo giving birth to a radical link between the body and the spirit. A fine example of Hänzel & Gretzel’s golden age....

Fumée, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

FUMÉE

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed smoke. However, he did not indicate where the smoke was coming from. During filming, only the smoke itself was caught on screen, against the background of a blue sky. The motif of smoke can be interpreted as a reference to the works of René Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers...

PANAMARENKO, ANTWERPEN 1940

Jef Cornelis
In a gallery in Bergeyk (the Netherlands) young Panamarenko elucidates on Donnerwolke (1971) and other models of flying objects. The result is an image of Panamarenko the dreamer, the small boy who likes to put together abstract puzzles, trying to get a grasp on how things work, on the infinite universe of miraculous variations...

BRUSSEL, SCHERVEN VAN GELUK

Jef Cornelis
’Brussels, fragments of happiness’ is no ordinary documentary on the Belgian capital...

THE CRY

Ria Pacquée
In various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...

WALLPAPER

Edith Dekyndt