Applying liberated space

Applying liberated space

The architect’s alphabet, a spatial vocabulary. A brain storming session & interview recorded by the end of May 1977 at Cherica’s home, Diest, Belgium. Voices: Gordon Matta-Clark, Cherica Convents and François Vereesen (Gordon’s personal assistant for the Office Baroque project in Antwerp). This tape was recorded some days after the Antwerp city counsil...
Gordon Matta-Clark is coming to you

Gordon Matta-Clark is coming to you

Big news ! As we receive daily requests in our mailbox of people wanting to see the films, we decided to make both our films available on Vimeo. No need to say more … or as Gordon said it :  “Art without the participation of the public is just absolute...
Introduction by Cherica Convents

Introduction by Cherica Convents

  “At the end of the day, you made three documentaries about Gordon Matta-Clark!” (Harold Berg/collector) OFFICE BAROQUE 1977-78 – 16 mm, edited version of the original A/B rolls, restored and digitized in 2012 – 42 min. MY SUMMER ‘77 WITH GORDON MATTA-CLARK 2012 – based upon original 16mm ‘rest rushes’ (so far unused images)...
A double date with Gordon Matta-Clark

A double date with Gordon Matta-Clark

On March 20, both films “My Summer 77 with Gordon Matta-Clark” & “A Jacob’s Ladder remembering Gordon Matta-Clark” were shown to the Belgian audience at Cinema Zuid, Antwerp.   The local museum of modern arts, M HKA, arranged this unique event focussing on the avant garde artist Gordon Matta-Clark. Gordon...
A Jacob's Ladder, remembering GMC

A Jacob’s Ladder, remembering GMC

A documentary made in 2013 about the construction of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Jacob’s Ladder. An original 16mm document sleeping for 35 years in the ‘Cherica Archives’. Filmed in 1977 during the days just before the opening of Documenta 6 in Kassel. The artwork Jacob’s Ladder was created by Gordon with the help...
My Summer 77 with Gordon Matta-Clark

My Summer 77 with Gordon Matta-Clark

This film document is an addendum to the original Office Baroque film that was realised by Cherica Convents in the seventies. The film consists of never unveiled reflections & images of Gordon while preparing one of his last building cuts ‘Office Baroque’. The footage was stored for over 35 years...
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