Collective Session
22—26 September 2025
with Dora Garcia
Projection Room & Beursschouwburg
Feedback Days Works-in-Progress
Monday 22 September 2025 | 9:30-18:30
Feedback Day 1 | Projection Room (rue de Praetere 55, 1180 Brussels)
Works In Progress – SIC Participants 2025, with guest Dora Garcia
FREE: A limited number of external visitors are welcome to join the feedback days, upon reservation.
If you’d like to attend, please email us at soundimageculture@gmail.com
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Tuesday 23 September 2025 | 9:30-18:30
Feedback Day 2 | Projection Room (rue de Praetere 55, 1180 Brussels)
Works In Progress – SIC Participants 2025, with guest Dora Garcia
FREE: A limited number of external visitors are welcome to join the feedback days, upon reservation.
If you’d like to attend, please email us at soundimageculture@gmail.com
Amor Rojo, Dora García
Wednesday 24 September 2025 | 10:00-15:00 | Beursschouwburg
Masterclass Dora Garcia: ACHRONIES, UCHRONIES AND FRACTAL NARRATIVES
Using as a case study her film production of the last ten years, The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018) and Amor Rojo (2024), Dora Garcia would like to consider three terms that are crucial to the long processes of each of the three films. These three terms are Uchronie, Achronie and Fractal narrative. Although all three concepts are present in all three films and are closely related to each other, Uchronie is especially present in Segunda Vez, Achronie in Amor Rojo, and Fractal narrative in The Joycean Society.
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Wednesday 24 September 2025 | 15:00-17:00 | Beursschouwburg
Screening + Q&A with Dora Garcia: Amor Rojo
(Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love
Belgian Premiere
Mexico, Spain, Norway, Belgium | 2024 | 95 min
Languages : Spanish, German, Russian
Subtitles : English, French
In order for the revolution to live up to its promise, might love be the missing ingredient? Artist Dora García delves into the archives and finds in the searing writings of Alexandra Kollontaï, an early-20th-century revolutionary, a precious ally of queer and feminist movements in Latin America and elsewhere. A joyfully militant political film.
Spectres, Sven Augustijnen
Thursday 25 September
Thursday 25 September 2025 | 10:00-13:00 | Beursschouwburg
Case-study: Spectres, by Sven Augustijnen
video, color, 16:9, French spoken, BE, 2011, 104’
Fifty years after his assassination, Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo, is back to haunt Belgium. Through commemorations and encounters, the top-ranking Belgian civil servant who was in Elisabethville on that tragic day of 17 January 1961 attempts to exorcise the ghosts of the past. To the sound of St John Passion by J.S. Bach, Spectres immerses us into one of the darkest days of the decolonisation of the Belgian Congo. An examination of the biopolitical body, this feature-length film by Sven Augustijnen exposes the fine line separating legitimisation and historiography and the traumatic issue of responsibility and debt.
Spectres won the Public Libraries Prize and GNCR Prize and received a special mention from the jury of the International Competition at FID Marseille (FR). It won the Prize of the Flemish Community at Festival Filmer à Tout Prix (BE).
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Thursday 25 September 2025 | 14:00-16:00 | Beursschouwburg
Screening: Le Fresnoy: An Ocean of Images — Perception(s) and Post-Truth
This year, SoundImageCulture has invited artist and filmmaker Stéphanie Roland, alumna of both SIC and Le Fresnoy, to curate a series of screenings.
For each session, Stéphanie brings together a selection of short films from Le Fresnoy, the renowned Studio national des arts contemporains in France.
Through these programs, we open a space for diverse, poetic, and thought-provoking works, a meeting ground for voices that explore the image in all its forms, from the intimate to the political, the speculative to the visceral. Each screening will offer new perspectives, sensorial experiences, and moments of resonance.
Le park, Randa Maroufi (2015, 14 mins)
Contraindre, FleuryFontaine (2020, 11 mins)
Love and Revenge, Anwar Salem (2021, 31 mins)
One thousand and one attempt to be an ocean, Yuyan Wang (2022, 11 mins)
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Thursday 25 September 2025 | 16:30-18:30 | Beursschouwburg
Screening 2: Le Fresnoy: Communities, groups, and collective myths
In this second session of the day, we present three short films that explore the dynamics of communities, the power of collective myths, and shared narratives.
Que je tombe tout le temps, Eduardo Williams (2013, 15 mins)
Soum, Alice Brygo (2022, 31 mins)
Parade, Iness Sieulle (2021, 20 mins)
In the Belly of the City, Eva van Tongeren
Friday 26 September 2025 | 10:00-13:00 | Beursschouwburg
Case-study by Eva van Tongeren
Filmmaker Eva van Tongeren will present her work and engage in a discussion with the attendees. For more information about her work, please visit https://evavantongeren.com/
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Friday 26 September 2025 | 14:30-17:00 | Beursschouwburg
Case-study by Jan De Coster: The phantom being of the voice-over
Using film excerpts from a wide range of films, this seminar explores the essence of voice-over: a means of expression within cinematic language that – like music – operates in the film’s extra-diegetic space.
practical information
Dates:
Monday 22 – Friday 26 September 2025
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Venues:
Mon 22. Tue 23 September: Projection Room, rue de Praetere 55, 1180 Brussels
Wed 24, Thu 25, Fri 26 September: Beursschouwburg, rue Auguste Orts, 1000 Brussels
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Tickets:
Monday 22 September: Feedback Day 1
>> FREE, on registration only (via soundimageculture@gmail.com)
Tuesday 23 September: Feedback Day 2
>> FREE, on registration only (via soundimageculture@gmail.com)
Wednesday 24 September: Dora Garcia Masterclass + Amor Rojo screening
>> Tickets
Thursday 25 September: Sven Augustijnen case-study + Le Fresnoy screenings
>> Tickets
Friday 26 September: Eva van Tongeren case-study + Jan De Coster case-study
>> Tickets