Marthe Peters — Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep

Connection can be found in (un)expected places, for instance in the selection of short films Marthe composed to accompany the Brussels premiere of her own tender film, starring her cat Henry.

I'm not purring, you're purring </3

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19:30 films
21:00 aftertalk
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In a small interior space where bodies constantly yearn for sleep, the filmmaker seeks in her beloved Henry something soft and tender to inhabit, a little fur to retreat into. Between bedsheets and freckles, a love declaration emerges, a fragile collage tracing a pathway between intimacy, vulnerability, and warmth.

about

Marthe Peters is a Dutch filmmaker living in Ghent, Belgium. In 2023 she graduated from KASK, Ghent. Her graduation film Baldilocks premiered at the 74th Berlinale, with screenings at a.o. Courtisane, Karlovy Vary, Seminci Valladolid, Lago Film Fest and the Barbican. From a place of intimacy her work depicts her daily reality in an abstract and fragmented way. Her practice is marked by playing with intuitive material in order to question stereotypical representations of the body. Her films centre around the banal as something important and worthy, in search of solace and care for one another.
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"In Peters' work, intimacy takes on a radical character, as Sophie K. Rosa describes in her Radical Intimacy (2023), in which the connection with and care for oneself, others and community are seen as sites of struggle to transform the world [...].”
— Bo Alfaro Decreton, about one of Marthe's previous films Kaalkapje, kortfilm.be, 21 February 2024