Thu 26 June 2025
Grands Carmes — MAIN ROOM — 18:30
Four stories that explore transformations of body, identities and relations. They display moments suspended between loss and discovery, solitude and desire. Without offering clear answers, they reveal the complexity of searching for connection, meaning or belonging.
Neill De Cock
Bored Angels — Belgium — 2023 — 20'
Two lovers seek sanctuary through a restless search for intimacy.
WARNING: The film includes a coffin burning. There are no dead bodies visible throughout the film. The film contains intimate and (non explicit) nude scenes.
Simon Vermeulen
Saint-Rémi — Canada — 2024 — 4'
Abandoned in the debris of a mine, an androgynous dancer is revived by the celestial energy pulsating within him.
Shot in a day in Quebec’s former asbestos mine of Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick, this short film features the artist’s Tetrahedron iron sculpture in which he dances. Serving as both a prison and a pedestal, this sculpture symbolises humanity’s detrimental creations that both elevate and destroy.
Despite the desolation, “Saint-Rémi” is an ode to revegetation, a hope that flora, like the dancer, will resurface striving for light, even if only beyond our existence.
Kinkybanana
Lost Tape : Virgil's Diary — Germany — 2024 — 7:32'
Lost Tape: Virgil’s Diary is a strange, sexy, melancholic journey into self-discovery. The film follows Virgil, a young man who is kidnapped by the Shadow Demon—an ambiguous, almost benevolent force that ultimately guides him through an unsettling yet transformative experience.
The piece draws on Carl Jung’s concept of shadow work, where the “shadow” represents the unconscious parts of the self—often repressed fears, desires, and instincts. Through a surreal ritual, Virgil confronts this darkness, not as an enemy but as an integral part of his identity. The Shadow Demon, rather than being a figure of horror, becomes a twisted guide leading him toward wholeness.
Aesthetically, the film plays with time and perception, blending VHS degradation with AI-generated imagery to create an eerie, disorienting effect. This hybrid medium leaves the viewer questioning whether the tape is a lost relic from the past or a fragmented transmission from the future. The result is an absurd, kitschy fairy tale that sits somewhere between horror and humour, fantasy and nostalgia.
Carlos Llaó
Grey at Night — Spain — 2023 — 28'
It’s summer and a lonely wolf who lives in a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona, spends his days walking and spying on those who go into nature looking for intimacy for their daily pleasures. Over time, he has developed a special predilection for them, attracted to their world. Suddenly, one night a blood moon eclipse turns him into a man, and he decides to leave the forest and go into the city, testing his idea of being human in a strange and unknown world.
