M HKA and De Cinema present VIDEO/TAKE, a programme line dedicated to moving images in all their expanded forms: video works, video clips, video art, installations, digital experiments, and other screen-based practices. From the early square television image to the flat museum screen and today’s vertical phone formats, VIDEO/TAKE brings these shifting visual languages back to the big screen, with full cinematic sound.

We approach video not as a secondary format, but as a central artistic field in its own right, situated within visual culture as an extension of the visual arts. It operates across contemporary art, online culture, music, and cinema, reflecting how artists and makers use moving images across platforms, technologies, and contexts.

The programme highlights how these works transform when displaced into the cinema space, where they can be experienced differently: expanded, amplified, and shared collectively in the movie theatre.

HIGHLIGHTS

MUSIC VIDEO SESSIONS: VOL. 1 celebrates the music video as a cinematic form in its own right. Many of today’s most influential filmmakers, from David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer and Melina Matsoukas to Sofia Coppola, developed their visual language in the world of music videos, where image and sound collided in bold and experimental ways. The screening will be introduced and discussed by Bertrand de Langeron, better known as So Me. After the screening, the night continues in the Rotonde at De Studio with a party fully immersed in the worlds of Ed Banger Records and the Liège-based collective Party Harders.