Ad Hominem in Fin et début / Einde en begin
06.11.2024 - 16.02.2025 iMAL
Brussels (B)
Alex Verhaest’s work is focused on story, she is influenced by cinema expanded and a youth of video games. With each new story, Verhaest dives into what it means to make films in a multi-screen post-Nintendo society. Her narrative work speaks to the beautifully perverse paradox of the human incapability of connection in the age of communication. The basis of each project is a highly narrative script, existing or newly written, that she unfolds into a body of work. Verhaest’s highly pictorial style operates on the juxtaposition of film, animation and video art, threaded into a poetically uncanny world.
Ad Hominem, is an interactive philosophical choose-your-own-adventure film, based on Sofie Verhaest’s doctoral thesis Eutopia Unbound, in which the player is cast in the role of Change. The player is invited to pick an answer to questions proposed by four different characters representing four distinct utopic ideas. Through a maze of historical quotes on collectivism, individualism, progressive thinking and conservatism, the player is guided towards an event, organized in honor of Change's arrival.
Society
08.06.2023 - 01.06.2023 Filmfestivals
Grenoble / Paris / Valencia
When a sixth person tries to join, five must define what makes them a group.
A Raven tells the story of five friends who live together. It would be a peaceful life if a sixth one did not continually try to join them. The five don’t know the sixth, but they don’t really know each other either. And what is acceptable to the five is not acceptable to the sixth. How can they explain this to the sixth? Long explanations would lead them to include him in their group. Then the Five reject him, until a Seventh presents himself to the group...
Alex Verhaest
Festival du Film court en plein air de Grenoble
Festival Côté Court Paris-Pantin
Festival Cinema Jove Valencia
No myths for these countries of the mind
13.05.2023 - 21.05.2023 Dauwens & Beernaert
Avenue de Stalingrad 26, 1000 Brussels (B)
Alex Verhaest presents at Dauwens & Beernaert No myths for these countries of the mind, a comprehensive exhibition of four narrative audiovisual series.
The artist has been working in the experimental audiovisual and cinematic field since her debut in 2013. The exhibition shows a selection of a decade of work by the artist including the family drama: Temps Mort, The archive of unattained futures; a body of work that interrogates utopian tropes consisting reuniting silk screen print, closed circuit video and a video game, and Society the artist’s most recent short film. We invite you to discover her outlandish worlds and her consistently surprising ways of telling stories that matter.
Society
29.04.2023 - 03.05.2023 Brusssels Short Film Festival - National Competition 6
Vendôme, Brussels (B)
When a sixth person tries to join, five must define what makes them a group.
A Raven tells the story of five friends who live together. It would be a peaceful life if a sixth one did not continually try to join them. The five don’t know the sixth, but they don’t really know each other either. And what is acceptable to the five is not acceptable to the sixth. How can they explain this to the sixth? Long explanations would lead them to include him in their group. Then the Five reject him, until a Seventh presents himself to the group...
29.04.2023 – 21.00 – Vendôme
03.05.2023 – 19.15 – Vendôme