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Programme
10:00-13:00 | Case-study: Spectres, by Sven Augustijnen
14:00-16:00 | Screening 1 Le Fresnoy : An Ocean of Images — Perception(s) and Post-Truth
14:30-16:30 | Screening 2 Le Fresnoy : Communities, groups, and collective myths
10:00-13:00 | Case-study: Spectres, by Sven Augustijnen
video, color, 16:9, French spoken, BE, 2011, 104’
Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations and encounters,the top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Elisabethville on that tragic day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past. To the sound of St John Passion by J.S. Bach, Spectres immerses us into one of the darkest days of the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo. An examination of the biopolitical body, this feature-length film by Sven Augustijnen exposes the fine line separating legitimisation and historiography and the traumatic issue of responsibility and debt.
Spectres won the Public Libraries Prize and GNCR Prize and received a special mention from the jury of the International Competition at FID Marseille (FR). It won the Prize of the Flemish Community at Festival Filmer à Tout Prix (BE).
In the presence of Sven Augustijnen.
14:00-16:00 | Screening 1 Le Fresnoy : An Ocean of Images — Perception(s) and Post-Truth
This year, SoundImageCulture has invited artist and filmmaker Stéphanie Roland, alumna of both SIC and Le Fresnoy, to curate a series of screenings. For each session, Stéphanie brings together a selection of short films from Le Fresnoy, the renowned Studio national des arts contemporains in France. Through these programs, we open a space for diverse, poetic, and thought-provoking works, a meeting ground for voices that explore the image in all its forms, from the intimate to the political, the speculative to the visceral. Each screening will offer new perspectives, sensorial experiences, and moments of resonance.
For this first session, we are pleased to present the following four short films, from the intimate to the political, from the speculative to the visceral.
All the films will have English subtitles.
Le Park, Randa Maroufi (2015, 14 min)
A slow meandering camera in an abandoned amusement park in the heart of Casablanca.
The film draws a portrait of the youth who frequent this place and exposes snapshots of their
life, meticulously reframed and often inspired by images found on social networks.
Desire to question different points of view and to multiply the possibilities: politically charged
moments, danger frozen in time, instants before acting out... between immediacy and
illusion, audience observes «something about to happen» and is invited to accept an
experience of duration.
Contraindre, Fleury Fontaine (2020, 11 min)
We are all prisoners of a nationality, a social condition, a skin color—constraints to which the
police and state repression force us to resign ourselves. This film tells the story of how
bodies suffer under blows, coercion, and humiliation.
Love and Revenge, Anwar Salem (2021, 31 min)
Posing, selfies, and the imaginary freedom through a journey into a girl teen’s practises on
social media. The desire to exist only as an image collapsed when she lost the control over her avatar. From a distance, Anhar casts two girls who are shooting and acting for the movie
as fictionalized versions of themselves. Exploring and hovering between private and public
life.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, Yuyan Wang (2022, 11 min)
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being
able to see the world with depth perception. Composed of micro-events from ''satisfying
video'' that swarm on the internet, an abstract narrative unfolds by referring to trance and
minimal music. It's an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that
recognises its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.
14:30-16:30 | Screening 2 Le Fresnoy : Communities, groups, and collective myths
In this second screening session of the day, we present three short films that explore the dynamics of communities, the power of collective myths, and shared narratives.
All the films will have English subtitles.
Que Je Tombe Tout Le Temps, Eduardo Williams (2013, 15 min)
In search of a seed, a young man emerges from the underground where he spends time with
his friends. Together, they embark on a long digestive journey.
Soum, Alice Brygo (2022, 31 min)
In the Parisian outskirts, Inti, Jai and Paulo are looking for an empty place. A fissure through
which could slip the generation of trouble they embody, in-between the laws of the old world
and the uncertainty of the one to come. A portrait of our time that oscillates between
documentary, performance art and surrealism.
Parade, Iness Sieulle (2021, 20 min)
A night doctor walks through a village invaded by the Wohlfahrtia Magnifica fly. Indoor and
outdoor, winter tourist activities in Bessans rub shoulders with the rurality of local residents.
