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 Park, RANDA MAROUFI (2015, 14 min)
A slow meandering camera in an abandoned amusement park in the heart of Casablanca. The film draws a portrait of the youth who frequent this place and exposes snapshots of their life, meticulously reframed and often inspired by images found on social networks. Desire to question different points of view and to multiply the possibilities: politically charged moments, danger frozen in time, instants before acting out… between immediacy and illusion, audience observes «something about to happen» and is invited to accept an experience of duration.
Contraindre, FLEURY FONTAINE (2020, 11 min)
We are all prisoners of a nationality, a social condition, a skin color—constraints to which the police and state repression force us to resign ourselves. This film tells the story of how bodies suffer under blows, coercion, and humiliation.
Love and Revenge, ANHAR SALEM (2021, 31 min)
Posing, selfies, and the imaginary freedom through a journey into a girl teen’s practises on social media. The desire to exist only as an image collapsed when she lost the control over her avatar. From a distance, Anhar casts two girls who are shooting and acting for the movie as fictionalized versions of themselves. Exploring and hovering between private and public life.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, YUYAN WANG(2022, 11 min)
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Composed of micro-events from “satisfying video” that swarm on the internet, an abstract narrative unfolds by referring to trance and minimal music. It’s an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that recognises its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.
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