Films
Where are you, Faby Books?
Belgium, 2024
Honey seller in search of organ virtuoso! In Where are you, Faby Books? the filmmaker/ honey seller wanders the streets of Ghent looking for Faby Books, the first female organist in Europe to record and the co-founder of Belgium’s largest concert hall, the Ancienne Belgique. None other than Saint Anthony, patron saint of lost causes, will show the way to our forlorn honey seller in Catholic Belgium. With Heleen Debruyne, Marie François and Bob Mees.
BE | 2024 | 47’ | color | vo nl | st nl en
De Schaduwwerkers
[The Shadow Workers]
Belgium, 2021
The Shadow Workers is a fable-documentary in which the upside-down-pigeon named Lukaku tells us the story about Usman and the Dutch Good-for-nothing. Usman works in a night shop and can only sleep during the day when the Good for nothing works in a honey shop. Together they embody the non-stop working rhythm of the world we live in today. The bird Lukaku takes us on an anthropologic journey, reflecting on the role of dreams in the lives of these two working humans in the city of Ghent.
BE | 2021 | 47’ | color | vo nl | st nl fr en
Herinneringen van de bolmens
[Memories of the Missing Half]
Belgium, 2019
In the beginning the spherical man was four-legged, with two faces. He was complete, nothing was missing from him, says Plato in his Symposium. But the spherical-men became overconfident, they threatened to attack the gods. So Zeus intervened. He cut the people in half.
Passage voor de zon
[Chapter for the Sun]
Belgium, 2015
Chapter for the Sun (2015) is a film about a night shop in Ghent. In it the director juxtaposes her personal story with the stories that unfold in a night shop. He — the night shop owner — dreams during the day, while she is looking for a place on the stage of the city. She decides to follow him in his sleep, and starts a collection of lullabies from all over the world.
