Are you an artistic researcher in music, audiovisual or dramatic arts interested in applying for a postdoctoral fellowship through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) or the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO)?
Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings - CLIC at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is happy to offer up to 5 short (1-2 months) paid Grant Writing Residencies in the period August-November 2026. Candidates will spend the Residency preparing postdoctoral fellowship applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). One of the residencies is earmarked for artistic research and co-organized by the research departments of RITCS (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound) and KCB (Royal Conservatory Brussels).
We are looking for early-career postdoctoral researchers (max. 6 years post-PhD) with a background in literary studies, theatre studies, journalism studies, translation studies, practice-based (artistic) or related disciplines. Are you eager to start the next step of your academic career in the coming year? Then consider applying for a Grant Writing Residency to prepare your next postdoc project with CLIC! Important: check out the detailed mobility rules in the call to see if you're eligible.
Application deadline: 31 May 2026
💫 Link in bio for more information.
Design: Mila Van Hende
RITCS-onderzoeker Ruth Mellaerts ging recentelijk in gesprek met scenariste Meg LeFauve (Inside Out 1 & 2, Captain Marvel enz.) over een vraag die blijft hangen: waarom maken vrouwelijke personages in film zo weinig echte transformaties door? Een diepgaand gesprek over agency, de vrouwelijke ‘want’, en de verhalen die ons vormen - opgenomen in @cinemaritcs en nu te beluisteren als podcast.
Daarnaast trad @rafnjotea in het Brusselse @medaa.be met Meg LeFauve in dialoog. De scenariste deed daar een boekje open over haar ervaringen en schrijftechnieken en beantwoordde prangende vragen vanuit het publiek.
Beide podcasts zijn te luisteren via de link in bio.
@quintenmaes_ deed de opname van de podcast en de montage van Ruth’s podcast, @_waanzin_bo de montage van het gesprek met Raf Njotea - veel dank aan beiden!
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RITCS researcher Ruth Mellaerts recently spoke with screenwriter Meg LeFauve (Inside Out 1 & 2, Captain Marvel, etc.) about a question that keeps coming up: why do female characters in film undergo so few genuine transformations? An in-depth conversation about agency, the female ‘want’, and the stories that shape us – recorded at Cinema RITCS and now available as a podcast.
In addition, Raf Njotea engaged in a dialogue with Meg LeFauve at MEDAA in Brussels. There, the screenwriter opened up about her experiences and writing techniques and answered pressing questions from the audience.
Both podcasts can be listened to via the link in bio.
Quinten Maes recorded the podcast and edited Ruth’s podcast, whilst Bo Sels edited the conversation with Raf Njotea – many thanks to both of them!
The Restored Film Festival Brussels aims to preserve and keep alive both national and international film heritage. To spark the cinematic memory of many film lovers, Cinema Palace, Cinematek, Cinema RITCS and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura are jointly organizing a festival dedicated to local and global film heritage. In the heart of Brussels, Europe’s vibrant capital, we present around ten films in original version, all digitally restored in various film archives and laboratories in and beyond Europe.
25-30 April 2026
📍Palace, Cinematek, Cinema RITCS, Istituto Italiano di Cultura
📢 Oproep: doctoraatsmandaat in de kunsten (50%) – RITCS School of Arts (deadline 15 mei 2026)
Ontwikkel je onderzoek vanuit je artistieke praktijk en wil je dat verder verdiepen? RITCS School of Arts biedt twee makers de mogelijkheid om een doctoraat in de kunsten te realiseren.
Belangrijk: kandidaturen zijn welkom vanuit alle artistieke disciplines binnen het RITCS-onderzoeksveld. Projecten kunnen dus vertrekken vanuit de audiovisuele kunsten (regie, cinematografie, montage, sound design, schrijven, productie, animatie, radio) én de dramatische kunsten (spel/regie) - hybride en interdisciplinaire praktijken zijn ook zeer welkom.
Het traject is vier jaar en resulteert in: een artistiek werk (film, performance, installatie, etc,) én een discursieve reflectie op het onderzoeksproces.
➸ Deadline voor indienen: 15 mei 2026.
Op basis van de eerste ronde, die zich vooral richt op het artistieke profiel van de kandidaten, zullen 23 juni interviews plaatsvinden.
➸ Meer info over voorwaarden en procedure vind je via het sollicitatieplatform van Erasmushogeschool Brussel en op de pagina van RITCS Research (beide links in bio).
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📢 Call: PhD in the Arts (50%) – RITCS School of Arts (deadline May 15, 2026)
Are you developing research from within your artistic practice? RITCS School of Arts invites applications for two PhD’s in the Arts.
Important: applications are open to artists from all disciplines within the RITCS research environment. Projects may emerge from audiovisual media (directing, cinematography, editing, sound design, writing, production, animation, radio) as well as the dramatic arts (acting/directing) - hybrid and interdisciplinary practices are also very welcome.
The four-year trajectory leads to: an artistic outcome (film, performance, installation, etc.) and a discursive reflection on the research process.
➸ Application deadline: May 15, 2026
Following the first round, which focuses primarily on applicants artistic profile, interviews will take place on 23 June.
➸ More information via the Erasmushogeschool Brussel application platform and the page of RITCS Research (both links in bio).
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
Two days, four universities, nine researchers - and one central question: what happens when artistic research and academic frameworks meet?
During From Experience: the Arts PhD in Practice, researchers openly shared how the academic world shapes, challenges and sometimes questions their artistic practice. On day two, The Imaginary Institute (VUB) took the helm and challenged participants through playful sessions that depicted the possibilities of artistic research in surprising ways.
Two inspiring days filled with new conncetions and perspectives! Thanks to our partners @vubrussel@kcbrussel@uniofwarwick@hdk_valand@stellenboschuni@wetenschapbrussel and Kunstenplatform Brussel.
Last week the coaches of Transversaal Atelier came together to share methodologies, learn from each other, and to prepare for the upcoming edition!
During Transversaal Atelier, the students of the 2nd year from AK and DK engage in different research projects in which they reflect on and address positionality and subjectivity, teamwork, transdisciplinarity, co-creation, the art of listening and being present, respectful encounters, commitment and inspiration.
On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of April, after 2 weeks of debate, playfulness and hands-on practice, the students will share their artistic research at different locations in Brussel where they’ve worked. More details will follow, the entire RITCS community is warmly invited. We are looking forward to seeing you!
With Anna Moiseenko, @kopano.maroga , Elien Ronse, @juliaclever , @charlotte.decort , @lauravandewynckel , @sandrasaraaa , @sanja1mitrovic , Edoardo Ripani, @eveliendegraef en @vanessadelcampo .
Thanks @jeroenvdsd@everybody_hertz_@xlairradio at @ritcs.research@ritcs.school.of.arts and all the students of the radio department who participated in the workshop I gave them and the audience that came to listen that evening. I am very honored that I was able to showcase the instrument and share with you the musical blind date with @mariekevanransbeeck . It felt really magical :-)!
