Blue Screen Level Five

02.05.2026 | 11AM - 6PM SCREENING PROGRAM Level Five - Gabrielle Petit (continuous, starts every half hour) with films by: Olivia Joret, @rune_peitersen @emmavanderput @nicoletta.grillo La Chasse (Field notes on a missing film),  Olivia Joret (2026) The work displaces references across forests and interior spaces, treating sites as constructed and unstable. Taking its cue from the title, the film unsettles the logic of the hunt as a structure of pursuit and capture, while speculating on a form of objectivity that cannot be secured. Mining Town, Rune Peitersen (2021) The mines in and around Bor in the southeast of Serbia, have been an integral part of the city for more than a century. The film Mining Town is a registration of the landscape, the city and the mining activities. Videos and photos show the impact of the mines on the land- and cityscape. Project Panorama, Emma van der Put (2026) We circulate throughout the Botanical Gardens of Brussels, which were inaugurated in the nineteenth century. Here, Emma van der Put made video recordings of the sculptures that are still standing in the botanical garden today. The park becomes a time capsule, where past, present and future seem to be in suspended animation. Oltremare, Nicoletta Grillo (2025) Shot across the Tyrrhenian coast of Southern Italy between land and sea—in a marine sand quarry, an abandoned village, an industrial port, and a grotto church by the sea—the video explores, beyond human migration, what it means for a place to be left behind. Part of Open Studio Days — Atelier in Beeld @kunstwerkt Open 2nd May, 11am-6pm Address: Rue Gabrielle Petit 6, 1080, Molenbeek #levelfivebxl

Throwback to Fireplace Cinema on March 20th when I had the pleasure to welcome Elisabeth Povinelli for a screening and conversation around the work of the Karrabing Film Collective. Here a short snippet from my little essay: “Cinema might be the illumination and elucidation of the mere existence of the other within a world haunted by otherness. Gathered around this projected image, attending to this unstable mirage, we become a temporary social body that holds a certain utopia of connection, a potential for a precarious solidarity with the fleeting presence of bodies appearing on screen. In the Karrbing Film Collective’s unique cinematic language, developed over nearly fifteen years now, we become aware how various layers of video shot on simple iPhones can make images think, dream and act all at once. The need for their cinema reaches far beyond representation or even self-representation: it is a means for resistance and struggle, an affirmation of the life lived now, and lived previously by ancestors or in the future by those to whom we are becoming ancestors. It is a desire to live responsibly and in connection with all other living beings.” More soon and thank you to all people who made this possible! #karrabingfilmcollective #elizabethpovinelli #fireplacecinema @levelfivebluescreen @caillou.filmfestivaldefilm @ritcs.research @ritcs.school.of.arts @s_m_o_g_music @emmavanderput @alasdairasmussendoyle @learose_vr @lietjebauwens

This Friday 🔥 Elisabeth Povinelli & Karrabing Film Collective: Fire, Film and Ancestral Dreaming. Date: Friday March 20th, 7pm doors & food, 8pm screening & conversation. Location: SMOG, Avenue Van Volxem 380, 1190 Forest. Entry: free contribution in support of Congolese squatting collective. Food: pay on the spot, prepared with love in support of Congolese squatting collective. Supported by Future Narratives, RITCS School of the Arts We are delighted to welcome you to a special evening of screenings by the Karrabing Film Collective in conversation with founding member and critical theorist Elizabeth Povinelli. Having written on the impasse between liberal systems of law and value, and indigenous worlds in Northern Territory, Australia, Elisabeth Povinelli is a co-founder of the Karrabing Film Collective in 2010 as a means of collective storytelling and territorial assertion. Consisting of over 50 members, the indigenous media group employ film and art installations as a form of grassroots resistance and self-organisation. Meaning ‘low tide’ in the local Emmiyengal language, karrabing refers to a form of collectivity that exists beyond government-imposed strictures of land ownership. The collective emphasise that the films themselves remain secondary to their ongoing struggle for land recognition. In conversation with Povinelli, we consider how filmmaking as a medium and film spectatorship as a mode of encounter, might contribute to politics of territorial resistance and to a refusal of life as prescribed by neo-capitalist norms. If cinema is a technical apparatus brought forward by colonialism and conditioned by extraction, how might it also - haunted by ghosts from the past - reflect the stories of ancestral beings and enduring connections to land? The event is a collaborative initiative by the research project Fireplace Cinema, RITCS Research, Blue Screen Level Five and Caillou Film Festival. #karrabingfilmcollective #elisabethpovinelli #fireplacecinema @levelfivebluescreen @caillou.filmfestivaldefilm @s_m_o_g_music @ritcs.school.of.arts @ritcs.research @emmavanderput @alasdairasmussendoyle @lietjebauwens @learose_vr @gawanfagard

Elisabeth Povinelli & Karrabing Film Collective Fire, Film and Ancestral Dreaming Date: Friday March 20th 7pm doors & food, 8pm screening & conversation Co-organised by Fireplace Cinema, Blue Screen and Caillou Film Festival Location: SMOG, Avenue Van Volxem 380, 1190 Forest Supported by Future Narratives / RITCS school of arts Entry: free. We are delighted to welcome you to a special evening of screenings by the Karrabing Film Collective in conversation with founding member and critical theorist Elizabeth Povinelli. Having written on the impasse between liberal systems of law and value, and indigenous worlds in Northern Territory, Australia, Elisabeth Povinelli is a co-founder of the Karrabing Film Collective in 2010 as a means of collective storytelling and territorial assertion. Consisting of over 50 members, the indigenous media group employ film and art installations as a form of grassroots resistance and self-organisation. Meaning ‘low tide’ in the local Emmiyengal language, karrabing refers to a form of collectivity that exists beyond government-imposed strictures of land ownership. The collective emphasise that the films themselves remain secondary to their ongoing struggle for land recognition. In conversation with Povinelli, we consider how filmmaking as a medium and film spectatorship as a mode of encounter, might contribute to politics of territorial resistance and to a refusal of life as prescribed by neo-capitalist norms. If cinema is a technical apparatus brought forward by colonialism and conditioned by extraction, how might it also—haunted by ghosts from the past—reflect the stories of ancestral beings and enduring connections to land? The event is a collaborative initiative by the research project Fireplace Cinema (ritcs), Level Five Blue Screen and Caillou Film Festival. #karrabingfilmcollective #elisabethpovinelli #fireplacecinema @levelfivebluescreen @caillou.filmfestivaldefilm @s_m_o_g_music @ritcs.school.of.arts @ritcs.research @emmavanderput @alasdairasmussendoyle @lietjebauwens @learose_vr @gawanfagard

Blue Screen # Publiek Park 14.09.2025 | Botanique, Brussels Thank you for joining us last Sunday! Invited by Publiek Park and Level Five, Blue Screen has been delighted to welcome you to a programme of moving-image works at Botanique, Brussels. Taking its cue from the botanical garden—a space that reflects both the organic lives of plants and the human impulse to manage, classify, and stage them—the programme features films that explore the diverse ways in which nature is framed through the moving image. Together, these works consider how the camera mediates our perception of the natural world, while opening up possibilities for more speculative, less prescriptive ways of seeing nature. The evening consisted of films by Hsu Che-Yu, Marion Guillard and Jacques Lennep, accompanied by two introductory films on loop by Alasdair Asmussen Doyle and Emma van der Put. Thanks to Publiek Park, Level Five, Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and ARGOS With the generous support of VGC @publiekpark @botanique_expo @levelfive.brussels @levelfivebluescreen @hsu__che_yu @marion.guillard_ #jacqueslennep / @argos_arts @alasdairasmussendoyle @emmavanderput

Blue Screen # Publiek Park 14.09.2025 | Screening 7PM Botanique - Centre Culturel Rue Royale 236, Brussels Invited by Publiek Park and Level Five, Blue Screen is delighted to welcome you to a programme of moving-image works to be presented on Sunday September 14th at Botanique, Brussels. Taking its cue from the botanical garden—a space that reflects both the organic lives of plants and the human impulse to manage, classify, and stage them—the programme features films that explore the diverse ways in which nature is framed through the moving image. Together, these works consider how the camera mediates our perception of the natural world, while opening up possibilities for more speculative, less prescriptive ways of seeing nature. The evening will consist of films by Hsu Che-Yu, Marion Guillard and Jacques Lennep, accompanied by two introductory films on loop by Alasdair Asmussen Doyle and Emma van der Put. Thanks to Publiek Park, Level Five, Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and ARGOS With support by VGC @publiekpark @levelfive.brussels @levelfivebluescreen @hsu__che_yu @marion.guillard_ @argos_arts @alasdairasmussendoyle @emmavanderput

Blue Screen # 14 Sophie Watzlawick 18.06.2025 @levelfive.brussels Blue Thank you all for joining us last week! Sophie Watzlawick is a Berlin-based artist and analogue filmmaker whose work adopts a speculative approach to the moving image, exploring how film can evoke philosophical and poetic concepts. In addition to working across image, sound and text, she is a co-founder and active member of LaborBerlin, an artist film lab that provides a collaborative and experimental space for analogue film practice. Blue Screen # 14 situated Sophie Watzlawick’s practice within a wider context of artist moving-image that decelerates film to examine sight and the act of looking in relation to the image. The selected works place a value not only what is visible in the moving image—what can be seen—but also what remains hidden or concealed. As Sophie Sophie Watzlawick notes in a recent interview with us in GLEAN magazine: “I think what interests me most is the trick of the moving image – I’m really touched that what you’re really seeing is a series of still images and your mind makes them move. But every single photogram can still hide something. There’s always something just behind the image.” In dialogue to Sophie Watzlawick’s practice we showed works by: Anouk De Clercq, Esther Urlus, Margarita Maximova, Mathias Prenen and Oscar van der Put. In the second part of the evening d'incise performed a live interlude to the film ‘où la nuit tombe, un bruit sourd, interlude illimité’ by Sophie Watzlawick, which was followed by a Q&A with the artists and the audience. We are grateful to @s_m_o_g_music for hosting us again this season! Blue Screen is produced by Level Five and hypernuit, with the support of FW-B (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) and VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds). @eihposkciwalztaw @anouk_de_clercq @augusteorts @urlusesther @margarita__maximova @mathiasprenen @oscarvanderput #levelfivebxl #levelfivebluescreen

18.06.2025 | Blue Screen # 14 Sophie Watzlawick Doors open: 7:30 p.m. | Screening: 8 p.m. Avenue Van Volxem 380, Brussels In dialogue to the films by our artist in focus Sophie Watzlawick, we will show works by Anouk De Clercq, Esther Urlus, Margarita Maximova, Mathias Prenen and Oscar van der Put. In the second part of the evening d'incise will perform a live interlude to the film ‘où la nuit tombe, un bruit sourd, interlude illimité’ by Sophie Watzlawick. Image 1. ‘Grottes de Han’ (2024) by Oscar van der Put, HD Video loop @oscarvanderput Image 2. ‘Atlas’ (2016) by Anouk De Clercq, 16mm film, 6’30’’ @anoukdeclercq , @augustorts Image 3. ‘Sycamore Dreams’ (2024) by Margarita Maximova, HD Video, 09’36” @margaritamaximova Image 4. ‘Konrad & Kurfurst’ (2013-14) by Esther Urlus, 16mm film, 7’ @estherurlus , @worm_rotterdam Image 5. ‘Tanizaki’s lantern’ (2023) by Mathias Prenen, glass, 漆 (jap; urushi), lead, lacquered copper, LED- lamp, transformer, electricity cable @mathiasprenen Image 6. ‘Où la nuit tombe, un bruit sourd, interlude illimité’ (2024) by Sophie Watzlawick, 16mm film, 8' @eihposkciwalztaw Image 7. Live interlude performed by d’incise mastodon.social/@ dincise Very welcome to join us this Wednesday! Blue Screen is produced by Level Five and hypernuit, with the support of FW-B (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) and VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds). #levelfivebxl #levelfivebluescreen

18.06.2025 | Blue Screen # 14 Sophie Watzlawick Doors open: 7:30 p.m. | Screening: 8 p.m. Avenue Van Volxem 380, Brussels We are delighted to welcome Sophie Watzlawick as our next artist in focus for the upcoming Blue Screen on June 18th. Sophie Watzlawick is a Berlin-based artist and analogue filmmaker whose work adopts a speculative approach to the moving image. As part of Blue Screen # 14, we will look into Sophie Watzlawick’s practice by showing a selection of her handcrafted 16mm films that explore the concept of the latent image and the possibility of a new filmic language that is not yet fully formed. In dialogue we will show works by Anouk De Clercq, Esther Urlus, Margarita Maximova, Mathias Prenen and Oscar van der Put. In the second part of the evening d'incise will perform a live interlude to the film ‘où la nuit tombe, un bruit sourd, interlude illimité’ by Sophie Watzlawick, which will be followed by a Q&A with the artists and the audience. Thanks to @s_m_o_g_music for hosting us! Blue Screen is produced by Level Five and hypernuit, with the support of FW-B (Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles) and VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds). @eihposkciwalztaw @anouk_de_clercq @urlusesther @margarita__maximova @mathiasprenen @oscarvanderput #levelfivebxl #levelfivebluescreen

GLEAN magazine | Screening Room ‘Sans Lune mit Präludium’ (2017), Sophie Watzlawick, curated by Blue Screen Sophie Watzlawick is a Berlin-based artist and analogue filmmaker whose work adopts a speculative approach to the moving image, exploring how film can evoke philosophical and poetic concepts. Her hand-crafted films frequently investigate the liminal space between the tangible and the oneiric, the visible and the unseen, rendering both rigid societal structures alongside a more human, experiential dimension. She is a co-founder and active member of LaborBerlin, an artist film lab that provides a collaborative and experimental space for analogue film practice. ‘Sans Lune mit Präludium’ is a 16mm black-and-white experimental film that merges a range of analogue techniques, including double exposure and the manipulation of both positive and negative film stock. The work delves into the materiality of film itself, exploring the concept of the latent image and the possibility of a new filmic language that is not yet fully formed. ‘Sans Lune mit Präludium’ (2017) by Sophie Watzlawick, 12’, on view online at the GLEAN magazine Screening Room until 30.06.2025 (link in bio) Blue Screen # 14 Sophie Watzlawick 18.06.25 | 19:30 - 22:00 Avenue Van Volxem 380, Brussels Blue Screen is a Brussels based bimonthly screening program focusing on film and video works by visual artists, taking place at the collective artist studios Level Five. To complement each Blue Screen live event, GLEAN magazine screens a work of the artist in focus, accompanied by an interview, online for the duration of a month. With generous support by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FW-B), Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF), and GLEAN. @eihposkciwalztaw @levelfivebluescreen @glean.art

17.05.25 Level Five Open Studios  SCREENING PROGRAM With films by: Ines Marita Schärer, Aliki Christoforou, Benno Steinegger, Karel De Cock, Rune Peitersen, Paoletta Holst, Olivia Joret, Emma van der Put, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Juliette Le Monnyer, Martijn Petrus, Aay Liparoto, Sara Manente and Julia Liedel. @levelfive.brussels Saturday May 17th 11:00 - 18:00 Level Five - Rue Gabrielle Petit 4 1080, Brussels #levelfivebxl @inesmaritaschaerer @aliki.ch @benno_steinegger_production @karel_de_cock @rune_peitersen @paolettaholst #oliviajoret @emmavanderput @messidorgroup @juliettelemonn #martijnpetrus #aayliparoro #saramanente #julialiedel

24.03.2025 | Workshop with Blue Screen and the artists of the exhibition ‘Curiouser and curiouser’ that took place at KOMPLOT Brussels (29.01. - 01.02.2025). Curated by Max Ferguson and Emily Walter (LuCi Moving Image Collective) in dialogue with Camille Van Meenen (KOMPLOT), the exhibition ‘Curiouser and curiouser’ presented four moving image installations by Amber Dooms, Albina Gaitova, Che Go Eun and Ella Schöning, each addressing hallucinant bodily transformations, like the arrival of womanhood with the scent of bodies blossoming into fragrant decay, or the digital elasticity of the imagined body, falling in and out of step with the whimsy of the mind. On invitation by LuCi and KOMPLOT, Blue Screen (Emma van der put & Alasdair Asmussen Doyle) held a workshop at Level Five, with the artists of the exhibition. During a productive session of discussion and sharing the processes of making the films, we looked into each of the individual practices, the curatorial selection made by LuCi, as well as reflecting on the different modes of presenting these moving image works within different contexts. After the exhibition that took place at KOMPLOT in January, the four films of ‘Curiouser and curiouser’ will be on view in a screening program at Visite festival on 26th April at Out of Sight, Antwerp. Thanks to KOMPLOT to facilitate this workshop with Blue Screen, LuCi & Amber Dooms, Albina Gaitova, Che Go Eun and Ella Schöning. Thanks to Level Five for hosting us. ‘How to Be Many Over and Over Again’, curated by Ferguson and Walter (LuCi), is a series of nomadic screenings and exhibitions of student films across Brussels. The project takes student films outside the school environment and encourages deeper engagement with the city’s cultural landscape. Over the course of a year, they collaborate and are planning to collaborate with several Brussels cultural institutions, organizing multiple exhibitions, screenings and workshops across Brussels, resulting in nomadic and interconnected programming. @amber_dooms @albinagaitova @chegocheck @ellaschoning @levelfivebluescreen @levelfive.brussels @luci.collective @komplot_brussels @visite_festival