Zig-zags
Dominique Loreau’s feature-length films, including Divine carcasse (1998) and Au gré du temps (2006), are strongly anchored in a documentary reality: the actors play themselves and improvise from a predetermined framework that nevertheless welcomes coincidences and the passage of time.
This methodology is already visible in her 1987 short film Zig-zags. 16-year-old Claire is bored to death and decides to visit her friend Françoise. During this impromptu evening, meandering through the city, frustrations and unspoken issues take centre stage. The semblance of a friendship irrevocably fades.
Jeanne Dielman, 6 quai aux Barques, 1000 Bruxelles (2024) by Marilyn Watelet and Goujons 59/63 (2015) by Gwenaël Breës, Mathieu Haessler, Cécile Michel and Sonia Ringoot will also be screened. In each of the films, residents wander through Brussels’ working-class neighbourhoods in search of encounters.
