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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
- Language English
- Subtitles Dutch, English, French
yanco’s double-bill series explores private and public Belgian archives, from museums to national film schools. Guest curators pair a Belgian short film with a companion audiovisual work to create a thematic or formal dialogue. Each resulting micro programme includes curatorial notes alongside a supporting essay, article, or interview.