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curated by
Nastaran Tajeri-Foumani
double bill #14
There is no map for the space between the real and the imagined. For Olivier De Vos and Pol Merchan, desire becomes their North Star.
De Vos’s Atopia drifts through fragments: dream and memory fold onto one another. It is a film about a place that doesn’t yet exist—an elsewhere shaped by softness, by imagination, by the wish to slip beyond fixed borders. Drawing from the life and work of Kathy Acker, Merchan’s Pirate Boys moves through a different kind of frontier. The film stitches documentary, fiction, performance, and photography; gender and identity become materials rather than constraints.
Queerness dreams its own geographies—atopic, unruly, defiantly fluid—spaces where reinvention becomes a way of living.
- Availability Worldwide
- Taal English
- Subtitles Dutch, English, French
yanco’s double-bill series excavates personal or national Belgian archives—such as CINEMATEK, argos, Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles. A guest curator puts a Belgian work into dialogue with another short film, either formally or thematically. Each double bill is presented with a curatorial note and further contextualised by essays, articles, or interviews.