Artist statement

Stories arrive like muscle memory. They surface in gestures, in glances, in the way bodies navigate space. As a film director I am drawn especially to bodies in resistance, in longing, in surrender. In my films, I return, always, to touch. I seek a tactile cinema, where the image presses into the flesh of the viewer, where sound lingers on the tongue like salt. To create and recreate a sensory world, in an attempt to translate the unspeakable. A dancer’s rhythm, the flicker of light on wet skin, the fragile tension of stillness before an impulse.

Whether through documentary or fiction, dance or music, I explore the intersections of sensuality, vulnerability, and human connection. Again and again I am looking for the thin membrane between self and other, where intimacy and distance collapse into one.

There is a reason I was born without a doctor, between my mother’s defiance and my father’s terror. Perhaps that first moment - chaotic, raw, utterly cinematic - was an early lesson: to trust the body, to follow its rhythms, to surrender to the unfolding of movement, of story, of life itself.

Achievements

Narrative cinema

With my short documentary BGIRL BADLI I have traveled to different film festivals including Dok Leipzig, Krakow, FIPADOC, FIFA Montreal, IDFA School Programme and Cactus festival, where it won the prize for best short. My second short documentary CORAL CITY (co-directed with Camille Ghekiere) had its international premiere at Popoli festival and was selected and shown at Docville and Leuven Kortfilmfestival in Belgium.

Short film ‘CORAL CITY’ (2024, Docville, Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Popoli)

Documentary ‘BGIRL BADLI’ (2022, Brussels Short Film Festival, Docville, Dok Leipzig, IDFA School Program, etc)

Documentary ‘Dear Angels’ (2020, Kortfilmfestival Leuven, VRT)

VAF scenario-atelier (2016, feature film ‘GRIP’)

Dance & music

In 2022 I created my musical short film LIQUID LOVE, in close collaboration with the Belgian band Intergalactic Lovers. One year later, my participative hip hop dance film UNGODLY was born with the support of De Singel Arts Center.

Short film ‘UNGODLY’ (2024, Filmfestival Oostende)

Musical short film ‘LIQUID LOVE’ (2022, for Intergalactic Lovers)

Writing

As a screenwriter, I have co-written the coming of age series SEASON OF SEX. Last year I was asked to write a series of columns for the Brussels magazine BRUZZ, about my inspiring encounters and experiences in my beloved city.

Series ‘Season of Sex’ (2023, Olympia Allaert for VRT)

Columns BRUZZ (2024, BRUZZ)

Academic research

After getting my masters in Languages and Literature, Cultural Studies and the Audiovisual Arts, my brain finds further intellectual stimulation in my academic research process at RITCS Royal School Of Arts, where I dig deeper into my film practice by studying the female gaze in regards to the politics of the dancing body on screen. In my artistic research I am developing a tactile visual language of subjectivity through theory and practice.