Jorn Plucieniczak

Jorn Plucieniczak is a filmmaker and musician based in Brussels. He grew up in the Belgian post-industrial mining city Genk. A fan of sensory storytelling, Plucieniczak approaches social and cognitive realms as materials to transmute. His first film +6 Gain (2019) was selected for various festivals, including Visions du Reel and Kurzfilmtage Winterhur. Follow-up Terril premiered at Courtisane in 2023.

© Terril (Jorn Plucieniczak, 2023)
Screening
18.01.2024
Terril
Jorn Plucieniczak, Belgium, 2023, 28’

Set in the deindustrialised mining city of Genk, Terril depicts the masculine dynamics within a working-class family. It patiently moves between these social codes and the landscape in which they manifest themselves.

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+6 Gain
Jorn Plucieniczak, Belgium, 2019, 26’

Symen and Sam pass their time in the monotony of a post-industrial suburb. They seem to linger in a kind of perpetual twilight countered by the invisible presence of ‘hardcore’. While gaming, they end up searching for the core of their desires.