18:30 doors
19:00 screening
20:00 talk w/ lau persijn, Giulia Francavilla / Rae & One Field Fallow

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 co-founder of One Field Fallow, a queer-run venue in Brussels for artistic research, neighborhood and community work. 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. lau’s work draws from an interest in more-than-human ecologies and researches film as a tool to question and deconstruct dominant perspectives.

https://www.instagram.com/laupersijn/
https://www.sauvonslafrichejosaphat.be/

One Field Fallow is a queer-run socio-cultural space in the center of Brussels. Its members operate horizontally, inspired by agricultural cycles and processes. OFF serves as a space for social-artistic research, a neighborhood laboratory and a meeting place for external individuals, collectives and organizations.

https://www.instagram.com/onefieldfallow

Giulia Francavilla / Rae is a sound artist currently based in Brussels. Grounded in the field of algorithmic music, her research delves into the notion of “immersion” and develops into acousmatic compositions, live performances and multidisciplinary works that have been showcased in many venues, festivals and galleries around Europe. As Giulia Rae, she makes music that builds a bridge from these experimental listening contexts to club environments. Her latest EP "O" was released on Riforma in 2024. Giulia is an engaged transfeminist & queer activist, addressing gender-based violence and inequality in the field of sound, both in her own practice and when she works on the projects of other artists, often in the role of composer and, as is the case for lau's film, sound designer.

https://www.giuliarae.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rae_gsvi

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.