Listening Through Editing
Thursday 30 April (15:00-17:30)
Argos (Brussels)
A screening and in-depth conversation around the editing of Kouté Vwa (2025, 76 mins)
About this case study
This session proposes a close look at film editing as a space of listening, construction, and reflection.
After the screening of Kouté Vwa, editor Liyo Gong will guide us through the film’s editing process, unpacking how its structure, rhythm, and transitions shape a layered narrative between memory, fiction, and lived experience.
Rather than a technical workshop, this event takes the form of a case study: an opportunity to engage with the thinking behind the edit, and to discuss how meaning emerges through montage.
About Kouté Vwa
Kouté Vwa (directed by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, 2025, 76 mins) moves between documentary and fiction, following a young boy in French Guiana as he reconnects with the memory of his uncle through music.
The film unfolds as a meditation on grief, transmission, and collective memory. Its editing plays a central role in weaving together temporalities, voices, and perspectives—creating a subtle and resonant cinematic form.
Synopsis
Melrick, a thirteen-year-old boy, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, French Guiana. During his visit, his desire to learn to play the drum brings back the specter of his uncle Lucas, also a drummer, who died in tragic circumstances eleven years earlier. Faced with the grief that haunts his family and Lucas’s best friend’s desire for revenge, Melrick seeks his own path to forgiveness.
About Liyo Gong
Liyo Gong is a film editor who graduated from INSAS (Brussels). Her practice is attentive to rhythm, fragmentation, and the coexistence of multiple voices within a film.
In Kouté Vwa, her editing contributes to a delicate balance between intimacy and distance, allowing the film’s emotional and political layers to unfold gradually.
About Liyo Gong
Dates: 30 April 2026
Times: 15:00—17:30
Venue: Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts (rue du Chantier 13, 1000 Brussels)
Pay what you can €5 – €10 – €15
Limited availability: booking is required by sending an email to soundimageculture@gmail.com