Thursday, 13 March 2025–Saturday, 15 March 2025,
Kaaistudios, O.L.V. Van Vaakstraat 81, 1000 Brussel. Cinema as Assembly
With Forum Lenteng, Marinho de Pina (Mediateca Abotcha), La Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles in collaboration with Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin, Marwa Arsanios, Massimiliano Mollona, Bojana Cvejić, Elettra Bisogno, Lara Khaldi, Elhum Shakerifar, Subversive Film and Robin Vanbesien.
In a time of genocides and authoritarian crises, how can contemporary cinematic practices align with and support political imaginations striving for social justice and antifascist liberation? How do they help us rehearse these imaginations? Cinema as Assembly is a three-day study circle that invites the public to come together – as an audience, as thinkers and as makers – to explore cinema’s potential as both a method and medium that can help rehearse collective organisation, militant imagination and liberatory transformation.
In a time of genocides and authoritarian crises, how can contemporary cinematic practices align with and support political imaginations striving for social justice and antifascist liberation? How do they help us rehearse these imaginations? Cinema as Assembly is a three-day study circle that invites the public to come together – as an audience, as thinkers and as makers – to explore cinema’s potential as both a method and medium that can help rehearse collective organisation, militant imagination and liberatory transformation.
Grounded in a relational geography of translocal struggles, imaginaries and resources, this study circle brings together film collectives from diverse locations (Jakarta, Malafo, Palestine, Lebanon, Brussels, and beyond) and from different cinematic practices. What insights emerge when they share their tools and methods for creating decolonial, speculative and collaborative narratives and methodologies in cinema?
The Cinema as Assembly study circle is co-conceived by Robin Vanbesien, Subversive Film, and Grégory Castéra as part of the World Histories of the Commons programme at KANAL-Centre Pompidou, in collaboration with Kaaitheater.
Supported by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) of the Government of Flanders x Robin Vanbesien’s doctoral research Ciné Place-Making at Sint Lucas Antwerpen Research Group (SLARG) & Antwerp Research Institute of the Arts (ARIA) x Mohanad Yaqubi’s research Aesthetics of Transnational Solidarity Cinema/ Archival Sensations Cluster at KASK & Conservatorium.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 13 march 2025
PROGRAMME
Thursday 13 march 2025
Session #1
19:00–22:00, An Exercise in Assembling
Ciné Lecture by Subversive Film in conversation with Bojana Cvejić
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Friday 14 march 2025
19:00–22:00, An Exercise in Assembling
Ciné Lecture by Subversive Film in conversation with Bojana Cvejić
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Friday 14 march 2025
Session #2
16:00–18:30, A Ciné Conversation
Ciné Conversation by La Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles in collaboration with Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin
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16:00–18:30, A Ciné Conversation
Ciné Conversation by La Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles in collaboration with Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin
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Session #3
20:00–22:30, Building Utopias
Ciné Conversation on Mediateca Abotcha, between Marinho de Pina and Elettra Bisogno, including the Belgian premiere of Resonance Spiral (2024)
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Saturday 15 march 2025
20:00–22:30, Building Utopias
Ciné Conversation on Mediateca Abotcha, between Marinho de Pina and Elettra Bisogno, including the Belgian premiere of Resonance Spiral (2024)
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Saturday 15 march 2025
Session #4
14:00–16:30, A Ciné Lecture
Ciné Lecture by Marwa Arsanios, in conversation with Lara Khaldi
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14:00–16:30, A Ciné Lecture
Ciné Lecture by Marwa Arsanios, in conversation with Lara Khaldi
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Session #5
18:00–20:30 Forum Lenteng
Ciné Lecture by Otty Widasari of Forum Lenteng, in conversation with Mohanad Yacubi
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18:00–20:30 Forum Lenteng
Ciné Lecture by Otty Widasari of Forum Lenteng, in conversation with Mohanad Yacubi
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Session #6
21:00–22:30, Harvest Assembly
Closing Assembly by Massimiliano Mollona and Elhum Shakerifar, in conversation with Forum Lenteng, Marinho de Pina (Mediateca Abotcha), La Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles with Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin, and Marwa Arsanios.
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Photo © Still from 'LAND DAY' (dir. Ghaleb Shaath 1978, Japanese version 1983). Image capture by Subversive Film
21:00–22:30, Harvest Assembly
Closing Assembly by Massimiliano Mollona and Elhum Shakerifar, in conversation with Forum Lenteng, Marinho de Pina (Mediateca Abotcha), La Voix des sans papiers de Bruxelles with Mieriën Coppens and Elie Maissin, and Marwa Arsanios.
Tickets (click here)
Photo © Still from 'LAND DAY' (dir. Ghaleb Shaath 1978, Japanese version 1983). Image capture by Subversive Film
