Posted On: October 13th 2025, 09:42 am
Avant premiere of our short film (me +
@applebacon1990 + team 🐦🔥) Artemys Revival & sound set Ear Balm by Hannah Todt who made our soundtrack
as part of Swamp Sacrifices programme at
@kanal.centrepompidou by
@p.a.u.l.a_almiron and Wouter de Raeve
produced by
@hiros.be I am shooting you with my eyeball
I am trying not to forget
That it’s round wet soft
Weighs as much as a 2 euro coin
And usually it is covered by the curtain of my eye lid
Good night
Artemys Revival is a short film revolving around the architectural site of the first feminist & lesbian bookshop “Artemys” in Brussels - a place of gatherings, dialogue and queer resistance, founded and led by queer activist and scholar Marian Lens between 1985 and 2002. Informed by choreographic strategies of guiding a walking, moving, sensing body, the film merges embodied experiences of being-in-the-city with complex layers and historical frictions between the XIXth century gallery passage - Galerie Bortier and queer identities. Calling upon the mythological figure of Artemis and her arrows, the film weaves a visual speculative thought, a daydream about urban spaces for FLINTAQ* people.
concept, direction: Mar* Szydłowska & Anna Lugmeier; cinematography: Anna Lugmeier; editing: Mar* Szydłowska, Anna Lugmeier; sound on set: Laura Weissenberger-Silva
soundtrack: Hannah Todt, Mar* Szydłowska; sound design: Michael R.J. Crabbé; colour grading: Marie-Sarah Piron; styling & costume: Laura Weissenberger-Silva; starring: Mar* Szydłowska, Abigail Aleksander, Galerie Bortier; special thanks to: Alex Auris, Sofia Dati, Mattijs Driesen, The Green Corridor, Meg Mackenzies, Marian Lens, Nathaniel Moore, Emma Ydiers; Supported by Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommisie.