SoundImageCulture (SIC) Showcase

An evening featuring two works in progress and two completed new short films from SIC

19:30 doors
20:00 screening
22:15 screening
23:00 bar closes

Findings
Leon Decock
Duration: 13min

A square meter of grassland and the worlds it contains. Searching for flora and fauna on the rhythms of the seasons. Meditating on attention and proximity, on what begins to emerge when we pause to look at the landscape directly in front of our feet.

The Road to beauty
Chloé Op de Beeck
Duration: 25min

With The Road to Beauty (work title) Chloé Op de Beeck explores what is lost after the amputation of her mother’s breast. Through intimate conversations with her mother and with the surgeon who reshaped her body, the work examines how bodies are represented, archived, and imagined, creating a poetic and tactile reflection on presence, absence, and transformation

Notes from Brook House
Year: 2025
Alex Nevill
Duration: 28min

What are the borders of the United Kingdom? Roaming landscapes filmed in 16mm reveal physical traces of different boundaries throughout the nation. People encountered while filming lend their voice to stories from Brook House, a large immigration detention centre on the outskirts of London. A contemplation on the ways migration is perceived and controlled across the country.

Airports, detention centres, sea containers. Slow, roaming shots linger on places of passage and confinement, where movement is measured and controlled. Fragments of stories, words passed from one person to another. Encounters along the way reveal different ways of seeing, different ways of understanding. Voices emerge, sharing stories from those held inside Brook House, a large immigration centre on London’s outskirts. Through shifting perspectives, the film examines migration, control, and the space between perception and reality.

Desde la Montaña Vemos la Moñtana
[FROM THE MOUNTAIN WE SEE THE MOUNTAIN]
Year: 2025
Julian Garcia Long
Spoken Language(s): Spanish, Mapuzugun; ENG subs
Duration: 32 min

In the mist of the Patagonian Andes, an indigenous forest is recovering from a fire, with animals and humans emerging from a landscape scarred by colonisation.

From the Mountain We See the Mountain blends haunting imagery and whispered myth to explore a land marked by ecological trauma and the colonial experience. As animals and humans cautiously re-emerge after a forest fire, rumours swirl: was it an accident, an act of nature, or something more insidious? Through eerie nighttime scenes, surreal lighting and interviews lit by the flicker of imagined flames, the film evokes a sense of environmental dystopia and quiet resistance. Balancing elements of myth, sci-fi and thriller, the film conjures a land reckoning with monsters it did not create.