Psst boom oh mmmmh clap hey join us for a weekend of full bodied ways of listening together to set the tone for 2025.

Screening of two short films, followed by a talk with Marthe Perret and her sound person Alejandra Rogghé Pérez, moderated by Nina De Vroome.

19:00 screening
20:15 after talk

Vers la tendresse

(38min, 2016)
This film is an intimate exploration of the masculine territory of a suburban city. Following four young men, we explore a universe where female bodies are nothing more than ghostly and virtual silhouettes. The characters' wanderings lead us inside everyday places where we will track the staging of their virility; while in voice-over their stories reveal without embellishment the unsuspected part of their stories and their personalities.

Alice Diop is a French filmmaker of Senegalese descent. After studying colonial history, sociology and documentary filmmaking in Paris, she started making documentaries about contemporary French society. Vers la tendresse (2016) won the national César award for best short film. Her debut feature drama film Saint Omer (2022) received the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize and the Future Lion for best debut feature at the Venice Film Festival. Alice Diop is also an activist and organiser for gender and racial equity in the film sector, and for political mobilisation of working class youngsters.

mercedes comme papillon

(20min, 2024)
An intimate short documentary about a group of women in La Mosson close to Montpellier. On the eve of a gypsy wedding, Luisa and her cousins talk about their dreams, desires, traditions and emancipation, exploring questions about feminism, gypsy heritage, and identity for the KimK generation. Written with them, to the rhythms of the palmas, and to the duende of flamenco, mercedes comme papillon draws a portrait of these women overflowing with life and paradoxes, through the eye of a camera that dances along and, above all, listens.

Marthe Perret was born in France and studied at Sorbonne University in Paris, where she made a short film in partnership with cultural platform Arte and publishing house Gallimard. She is currently doing a master in film at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent. She has also collaborated on projects by other filmmakers, working as a camera operator and editor. This is the premiere of mercedes comme papillon.

Nina de Vroome is an independent filmmaker. In 2013, she graduated from KASK with the film Waves, a reflection on sound and how it can influence a sense of community. Since then, her work has been showcased at festivals such as Visions du Réel and IFFR. Today, she also teaches at KASK, writes for the film magazine Sabzian, and contributes to film projects in the role of sound technician.

Alejandra Rogghé Pérez was born on Isla de Margarita in Venezuela and studies film at KASK. She has frequently collaborated on projects by other filmmakers and theater artists, for example, as a camera operator for FoyerTV or, as in Marthe's film, as a sound technician.