HABITER LES FISSURES
[TO LIVE IN THE CRACKS]
In Brussels, a former factory bears witness to an intense and now bygone industrial era. Today, it is home to spontaneous flora that has found its way into the cracks in the bricks and concrete, as well as to the people who live there and create alternatives to what this city has to offer. Paced by the constant back and forth between the political and the poetic, between the macroscopic and the microscopic, ‘To live in the cracks’ unfolds through the interweaving of 16mm images, narratives and sound composition inspired by the building and the plants. A film like a place, a place for dialogue, a place for togetherness.
direction, image & editing Milena Desse
sound design Simon Lehmans
music & sound editing Gaëtan Arhuero
sound recording Léa Roger, Gildas Bouchaud, Simon Lehmans, Charles Belpois, Gaëtan Arhuero from Fenêtre Ovale collective
mixing Rémi Gérard
color grading Jade Gomes
film processing and scanning Andec, De Jonghe
production Naoko Films Etc. Beata Saboova, Vincent Metzinger
with the support of Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, CBA – Centre de l’audiovisuel à Bruxelles, Tax shelter du gouvernement fédéral de Belgique, Fondation Mycelium
contact@milenadesse.be to host public screening
