double bill #19

Spaces meant to nurture and contain promise control, yet something restless always slips through the cracks. In that quiet escape, their beauty starts to bloom. 

In Carnations, we enter a greenhouse ruled by an artificial summer, where rows of blossoms stretch toward manufactured light. Martijn Van de Wiele builds a choreography of labour—repetition, rhythm, and the controlled precision of industrial floriculture. In Swollen Stigma, a woman drifts from room to room slipping between literal and psychic spaces, as memories—or fantasies—of another woman seep into her perspective. Sarah Pucill conjures a Deren-esque daydream in which the boundary between inner desire and the external world dissolves.

Contained environments become mirrors: the greenhouse, the home, each holding traces of care and longing. These films linger within enclosed worlds—one botanical, one psychological—revealing how care shapes the spaces we inhabit.