Max Ferguson

In one week, the short film programme The Fall Was Hard, but I Love the Taste of Pavement on My Tongue arrives at Pilar in the cadre of their heartbreak festival. Concretely, the programme probes what it looks like to still dream the dreams of a young girl within a patriarchal society structured around oppression and closed doors. 🎹 All About a Girl (2004, Cecelia Condit) 🤳 Lick in the Past (2016, Laure Prouvost) 🔎 Lasso (2000, Salla Tykkä) 🥒 Crocus (1971, Suzan Pitt) 🏔️ On Weary Wings Go By (2024, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg) These five short films offer corruptions of possibility and portals of impossibility. The films play from 17:00 - 20:00 and I invite you to enter anytime. Play roulette with the strange images on screen. It's come and go and maybe stay a while. Pilar VUB Monday March 23rd 17:00 - 20:00 Looped screening Free entrance CODA From what dizzying heights of possibility did you fall, and where did you land? What ground do your feet walk now and does it feel like home? I want to know what it is to dream in the face of a closed door. The world was never an oyster because the fall was already written.

// // 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓: @no.maxwell - 23 𝐌𝐀𝐑 𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐏 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 // Meet @no.maxwell ! Max is no stranger in Pilar, as she curated a screening series with @luci.collective last year. Max works out her own projects, which one fitted perfectly in our Festival theme Heartbreak ❤️‍🩹 In 'The Fall Was Hard, but I Love the Taste of Pavement on My Tongue', she explores heartbreak through the shock of meeting with reality and the shattering of childhood fantasies. Max layers intimate and startling fantasies from women filmmakers, ranging from whirling girlhood desires to cracked and limping hybrid dream/nightmares. In a grown-up world that has left innocence and naivety behind, the unbridled dreaming of a young girl still courses wildly beneath the surface like bubbly lava under a cooling earth. 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 MONDAY 𝟮𝟯 𝗠𝗔𝗥: 𝟱 𝗣𝗠 - 8 PM/ 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗥 𝗕𝗢𝗫 / 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝘀𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺｡

// 𝟐𝟑 𝐌𝐀𝐑 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐲 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐛𝐲 @𝐧𝐨.𝐦𝐚𝐱𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 // For this short film programme at ASAP festival, the theme of heartbreak is interpreted through the shock of meeting with reality and the shattering of childhood fantasies. As small children, we are raised to believe that the world spreads out before us in a dazzling array of possibility and potential. We are encouraged to dream. Time passes and we grow up. Reality sets in and, for many women, it is a crude wall, fencing off our girlish dreams. The contemporary patriarchal society that we have inherited and now inhabit is a resounding fracture of that potential and possibility that used to dangle before us. What dreams are still possible in the face of the cold, hard intrusion of reality? This programme layers intimate and startling fantasies from women filmmakers, ranging from corrupted girlhood desires to cracked and limping hybrid dream-nightmares. In a grown-up world that has left innocence and naivety behind, the unbridled dreaming of a young girl still courses wildly beneath the surface like bubbly lava under a cooling earth. We invite you to come and go throughout these grotesque and disfigured dreams that are only possible after the fall. These fleeting impressions are for you to collect like plastic pearls on fishing wire. Come hungry, come sleepy, come curious. 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘱 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 5 𝘗𝘔 - 8 𝘗𝘔. 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘹.

In one week, we do the first session of Catch & Throw 🎾👋 I invited fellow filmmaker @boverpoten to think in film together. As our screening takes place on the day before we move into the new lunar year🧧 of the fire horse 🐎🔥, I proposed that we take @dgongart 's short film Horse (2022) as a starting point. The fire horse represents passion, speed, and choosing motion over inertia. So around this short film, we've collaboratively built a programme of twisty transformations and powerful energy to bring us into the new year. Catch & Throw #1 Monday 16th Feb 20:00 Jette (DM for full address) Free entrance

Catch & Throw 🎾 This new screening series approaches film not only as an audio-visual language, but as a real form of communication between people and places. Building upon existing relationships, I invite friends, colleagues and peers to programme short film screenings collaboratively, each time as a pair. We depart from the same point, and like two oars steering one boat, we'll find out together where we end up. Catch & Throw is nomadic and takes place in alternative and unconventional screening spaces. In this way, short films infiltrate the spaces we inhabit and the relationships we form. The act of film-watching becomes a form of human connection. "It was an oasis... this dark vast room... an artificial and democratic night, the great equalitarian night of the cinema, truer than the real night, more delightful, more consoling than any real night" The Sea Wall - Marguerite Duras The first beta-version of Catch & Throw takes places on February 16th at 20:00 in Jette. More details soon 🔜 📂Font credits: Terminal Grotesque by Raphaël Bastide & Jérémy Landes distributed by Velvetyne

It's always bittersweet to arrive at the end of something. For two and a half years, LuCi has been a vibrant whirlwind of energy, tracing pathways all over Brussels. From ciné-club to curatorial project, this constantly-evolving collective has enjoyed the freedom to experiment and an incredible amount of support from peers and colleagues. Starting from the very first meeting in a classroom at LUCA to my current exit from LuCi moving image collective, I am eternally grateful for all these moments that have taught me so much. So thank you to all our generous hosts and collaborators. I started listing out all the names, but it got extremely long. In any case, you know who you are and that I hold you in high esteem. And now? I'm facing forwards to the next thing 🌬️ Images from: LuCi HQ at Recyclart How to Be Many Over and Over Again at De Markten with the support of Auguste Orts and Herman Asselberghs A Mixed Bag at Cinema RITCS with the support of Auguste Orts and Herman Asselberghs LuCi internal organisation meetings Curiouser and Curiouser at Komplot with the support of Auguste Orts and Herman Asselberghs A Garden of Dust at Villa Canapé Ciné-angels: LuCi x Burenhinder at Boomtown Rubbing Shoulders series at Pilar

I'm beyond excited that next week ⏱️ You Are the Truck and I Am Deer will be screened at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival @yidff !!!!!! Both my and my film's first time in Japan 🗾 The film screens as part of the New Asian Currents competition and marks a first for me to be able to accompany my film at a screening outside of Europe. Eternally greatful for the people (especially programmer @m5_wakai ) who have supported this film as well as my creative practice. This opportunity goes beyond my wildest dreams. Thank you ! 💝

leo season celebrated in good fashion ♌️🪩 thanks to those close and far who helped me make a big deal out of my birthday. love you all <3

Since its home premiere in Brussels this January, You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer has had a busy 2025 so far ! 🚚💨 Screenings: Les filministes (CA) Mar @festivalfilministes Experiments in Cinema (US) Mar Curtas na cesta (PT) Mar @curtasnacesta Porto Femme (PT) Apr @portofemme Beirut Animation Nights (LB) Apr @beirutanimationnights West Virginia Mountaineer SFF (US) Apr @wvmsff International Video Poetry FF (GR) Apr @instituteartgreece Visite Festival (BE) Apr @visite_festival Golden Ger IFF (MN) May art+film+vienna (AT) May @art_film_vienna Habitar El Cine (VE) May @habitarelcine Videoex (CH) May @videoex_festival Weimar Poetry Filmtage (DE) May @poetryfilmtage Kino Otok Isola Cinema (SO) Jun @kinootok_isolacinema Zebra Poetry Festival (DE) Jun @hausfuerpoesie Fest Anča (SK) Jun @fest_anca Andaras (IT) Jul @andarasfilmfestival I've been very lucky to share this little angry and sad film so far and wide. Thank you to all who believed in it and supported its journey: Eva, Beatriz, you know who you are ! 🫂

"We do not actually know much about what power may have meant in the hands of strong, pre-patriarchal women. We do have guesses, longings, myths, fantasies, analogues." - Adrienne Rich 🚢 Hospitable Body: Counter-myths from the womb happens tomorrow night 💫💫 !!!! Happy to share some practical details and a sneak peek into the content of the evening. 🌟 I am so excited to welcome you all to experience @yasmine.deroui 's solo performance Medea(s). 🏺 There are still a few tickets left online 🌐 and we've reserved some 🎟️ to be available at the door. Looking forward to seeing known and unknown faces in the crowd ! Hope you'll stay for a drink afterwards 🍸 Many thanks to @sirine_noella_jen and @demarkten for hosting us 💙

Next Wednesday is your ONLY chance to catch Yasmine Deroui's @yasmine.deroui solo performance Medea(s) ‼️‼️ The performance takes place in the framework of an event called Hospitable Body: Countermyths from the womb - developed by myself and Yasmine 💌 During this event, you can expect an attempt to reach out and meet our bodies in the middle. What can a body exist as beyond its physical function and societal parameters ? 🔮 Performed for one night only at De Markten Wednesday 28th May 20:00. Tickets on sale now on the De Markten website 🌐 Thank you to Sirine @sirine_noella_jen and De Markten @demarkten for the continued trust and opportunity to develop projects like this ! 🌱

Max Ferguson invites artist and friend Yasmine Deroui to present her performance Medea(s)—a visceral exploration of her personal relationship with her uterus. This evening offers a thought-provoking opportunity to rethink the female body, or bodies with a uterus, and challenge conventional definitions and narratives surrounding them. Through art, dialogue, and performance, we will delve into the complexities and layers of these bodies, reshaping the myths that have long defined them. Wednesday 28 May 8PM €8, € 6 reduction, € 2 Paspartoe reduction More info & tickets via link in bio.