Le Fresnoy: An Ocean of Images
— Perception(s) and Post-Truth
Thursday 25 September 2025
14:00–16:00
Beursschouwburg (Brussels)
This year, SoundImageCulture has invited artist and filmmaker Stéphanie Roland, alumna of both SIC and Le Fresnoy, to curate a series of screenings (25 September, 20 November 2025).
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.
For this first session, we are pleased to present four films.
Program | 25 September 2025
Le parc, Randa Maroufi
Contraindre, FleuryFontaine
Love and Revenge, Anwar Salem
One thousand and one attempt to be an ocean, Yuyan Wang
About Stéphanie Roland – Curator
Stéphanie Roland is a Brussels-based visual artist and filmmaker. Hovering between documentary and imaginary, her films and installations explore the invisible structures of the Western world, the large scales of time, and hyperobjects. She draws her inspiration from a wide range of subjects, from environmentalism and politics to geology and the cosmos.
Having graduated from Brussels’ La Cambre and studied with Hito Steyerl at the UDK Berlin, she completed a course in France at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Her projects regularly feature in exhibitions at internationally renowned institutions, such as the Venice Biennale, the Centre Pompidou, the Louvre, the Benaki Museum, the Botanique, the Kampala International Art Biennale, Wiels, and ISELP. Breda Photo, Belfast Photo Festival, Manifesto, Encontros da Imagem, BIP Liège, Month of Photography Los Angeles, and Unseen are some of the photography festivals in which she has participated.
Her films have been shown at international festivals such as Visions du Réel, FID Marseille, Festival dei Popoli, ZINEBI Bilbao, FEST New Directors / New Films, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Curtas Cinema and PÖFF Shorts Tallin black nights, to name but a few. Her first film, Podesta Island, won the Alice Guy prize at the FID Marseille while her second, Le cercle vide, won the TËNK prize at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon.
Practical information
Date: Thursday 25 September 2025
Time: 14:00–16:00
Venue: Beursschouwburg (rue Auguste Orts, Brussels)
Tickets give access to the entire program on Thursday 25 September:
10:00-13:00 | Case-study: Spectres, by Sven Augustijnen
14:00-16:00 | Screening 1 Le Fresnoy : An Ocean of Images — Perception(s) and Post-Truth
16:30-18:30 | Screening 2 Le Fresnoy : Communities, groups, and collective myths