World Water Day: Workshop & Screenings (FR/NL)
WIELS offers a special programme dedicated to water to celebrate World Water Day. Take part in a sound workshop around the Wiels marsh, followed by a screening of short films exploring our relationship with water.
Record the sounds of the marsh during a sound workshop with artist Némo Camus. who will guide participants in their exploration of the marsh's sonic environment.
The workshop will be followed by a screening of four experimental short films shot between Brussels and Nunavut, an Inuit territory in Canada, in which different links to water are evoked - whether in the past, present, or future.
Programme:
11:00-12:30: workshop
14:00-15:00: film screening
Snapshot: laura "lau" persijn, underneath it flickers
SOUND WORKSHOP
Discover the rich sounds of this urban aquatic environment, from its surface and surroundings to the depths of the Wiels Marsh with artist Némo Camus.
From age 7
Free with registration
FILM SCREENING
(Total duration: approx. 60 minutes)
Sophie Sherman & Némo Camus: The water was here (14 minutes, BE, 2025)
Film shot in 16mm at the Marais Wiels, a marsh in Brussels that appeared after the water table broke during excavation work for a real estate project. Insects, birds and humans cohabit in this refuge where life and magic seem to resist.
Laura Persijn: underneath it flickers (19 minutes, BE, 2024)
The jay, the train, the moss, the trembling earth. How do you listen to a space that is considered empty? "Underneath it Flickers" explores the Josaphat wasteland, a wasteland in Brussels threatened by real estate development, from different angles. By questioning our ways of looking and listening, the film attempts to connect to the field as if it were a single body, inhabited by many beings.
Ella Morton: Kajanaqtuq (11 minutes, CA, 2020)
An experimental short film featuring the voice of Naulaq LeDrew, an Inuit elder. She talks about her home in Nunavut, surrounded by water, and how Inuit ways of life have changed since she was young. Super 8mm footage from the region illustrates his account of historical events and Inuit mythology.
Juanita Onzaga: Tomorrow is a Water Palace (15 minutes, BE, 2022)
Described by its director as a work of "ancestral futurism", this dizzying visual journey adopts the point of view of Sybille, the last woman on Earth, a planet where water no longer exists. It seeks to communicate with the spirit of water, the bearer of memory par excellence. Shot in Super 8, this sensory journey finds a fluid form to describe the end of the Earth as we know it.