An intimate exploration to understand how images design, imprison or liberate. Filmmaker and visual artist Marion Guillard dives back into fifteen years of collected footage. Birds, American landscapes, family archives, memories of a body both hated and desired. A bulimia of images, of life. First fascinated, then saturated by her work as a wildlife filmmaker, she questions the frozen beauty…

In the projection booth of CINEMATEK in Brussels, women’s voices emerge and tell their stories. On the preserved film reels, men have stripped, confined, watched, and killed countless women. Between horror and claustrophobia, cinema becomes a field of resistance. Women have always built architecture, yet their history is erased — Out of the Picture exposes this imposed silence and fights for…

In the shadow of the shelves, the cassettes whisper the memory of a world that endures. This sensory 16 mm film immerses us in a cassette and CD shop in Beirut. A tribute to the discreet carriers which fragile resistance allows works of art to continue to circulate and survive. When their son leaves for Estonia, a couple must learn to live again without the center of their world. Guangdong and…

A musical and political journey through Franco’s Spain and today, where singing becomes resistance and living memory. In 1961, the Italian collective Cantacronache secretly crossed Franco’s Spain to record popular songs of resistance. In 2022, Pablo Gil Rituerto retraces this journey, guided by Emilio Jona, the last living witness. Archives, landscapes, and contemporary voices weave a powerful…

Something is rotten in the kingdom of art: revisiting one of the greatest contemporary art frauds. In December 2000, a celebrated photographer, invited by an influential critic, selects four “artists” for a supposedly groundbreaking Biennale. Their work is indefensible—artistically, aesthetically, and ethically—yet the art world embraces it. Tirana Conspiracy reconstructs the scandal through…

Spaghetti western revival, spiked with punk and industrial noise. With their wild, home-built instruments, sound-art duo Lolo & Sosaku unleash squeaks, rumbles and crashes in a perfectly orchestrated chaos. Is it a concert, an acid-soaked happening, a daydream in the style of Quintin Dupieux? Sergio Caballero throws the two sound artists into an extravagant western where the desert becomes a…

Cult film of the Barcelona movida about the Andalusian painter Ocaña, the queer “pariah” of the Franco era. Portrait of José Pérez Ocaña (1947-1983), painter, sculptor, singer, actor and performer from Andalusia, who during the Transition roamed the Ramblas of Barcelona dressed as a queer sevillana. The film offers an immersion in the creative universe of this countercultural icon, bringing a…