underneath it flickers

(2024, 19 min)
The jay, the train, the moss, the soil trembling. How to listen to a space considered empty? ‘underneath it flickers’ takes different perspectives on La friche Josaphat, a lush, green wasteland in Brussels threatened by planned real estate development. By questioning our ways of listening, the film seeks to connect with the land as a single body inhabited by many creatures.

Lau Persijn is a Brussels-based filmmaker and one of the driving forces behind One Field Fallow, a queer-run community and artistic research space. In June 2024, Lau earned a master’s degree in film from KASK Ghent with underneath it flickers. The graduation film was shortlisted for the Competition for Belgian Student Shorts at Film Fest Ghent.
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On the Battlefield

(2024, 16 min)
We see a man with a microphone walking through green fields. He listens intently to the grass, the air and the trees around him. His microphone also picks up sounds from the past: the voices of Black people singing about having to obey a master, about a white villain who shot a Black woman and reports about protests that lasted 86 nights.

Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki and Ray Whitaker are Little Egypt Collective: a multiracial, multigenerational group of artists from Little Egypt in Southern Illinois and Chicago. They approach filmmaking as a mode of collective world-building and a means of investigating social conditions of inequality in Southern Illinois, a region historically marked by economic and racial injustices. They utilize speculative fiction and conceptual playfulness to generate new expressions of community spirit and resistance, and to participate in Cairo’s resurgence. On the Battlefield, directed by collective members Theresa Delsoin, Lisa Marie Malloy, JP Sniadecki, and Ray Whitaker, is the collective’s first work; it has screened internationally at venues including Cinéma du Réel, Taiwan International Documentary Festival, and DC/DOX.