Movie
Today
The Fall Was Hard, but I Love the Taste of Pavement on My Tongue
Mon 23 Mar 2026Price
Free
Timetable
17:00 / Doors
17:00 / Start
TBA /
Location
Pilar Box (Ground Floor)
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
The shock of meeting with reality and the shattering of childhood fantasies.
Free walk-in today from 5PM - 8PM in Pilar Box.
Free walk-in today from 5PM - 8PM in Pilar Box.
TBA /
Max Ferguson
Max Ferguson is an audiovisual curator and animation filmmaker from Hong Kong based in Brussels. Her short film You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer was screened at Annecy, IDFA and Film Fest Gent. She is currently in production for her next film, Comme des images du Japon.
She also works on two ongoing curatorial series: Hospitable Body and Catch and Throw. Hospitable Body is a multidisciplinary series, focused on creating counter-myths of femininity. Each session focuses on the work of a few young artists who offer contemporary perspectives on women's bodies.
Catch and Throw positions collaborative film-programming and film-watching as a language in itself. Inviting friends, colleagues and peers to share tastes and perspectives in a casual environment, Ferguson reveals the film-screening to be a powerful element of human connection.
Catch and Throw positions collaborative film-programming and film-watching as a language in itself. Inviting friends, colleagues and peers to share tastes and perspectives in a casual environment, Ferguson reveals the film-screening to be a powerful element of human connection.
Cecelia Condit
Since 1981, Condit’s videos have created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her “feminist fairy tales” focus on friendships, age, and the natural world. She has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces, and is represented in collections including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. In 2025, she received the Anonymous Was A Woman award (AWAW - 2025) and, in 2024, the Stan Brakhage Vision Award. She’s a professor emerita in the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was the director of the graduate program in film for 30 years. She currently lives in Minnesota, USA.
Laure Prouvost
Salla Tykkä
Suzan Pitt
Suzan Pitt, Kansas City, MO (USA), 1943 - Taos, NM (USA), 2019
In 1965 she graduated with a BFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Reveling in the sticky corners of the psychosexual imaginary, she wrangles with disobedient bodies and indomitable desires. Trained as a painter in the 1960s, the American artist is known for a dreamlike form of animated surrealism, in which unconscious pleasures come, without blushing, to light.
A former Associate Professor at Harvard University, Pitt received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship and three production grants from the National Endowment of the Arts.
In 1965 she graduated with a BFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Reveling in the sticky corners of the psychosexual imaginary, she wrangles with disobedient bodies and indomitable desires. Trained as a painter in the 1960s, the American artist is known for a dreamlike form of animated surrealism, in which unconscious pleasures come, without blushing, to light.
A former Associate Professor at Harvard University, Pitt received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship and three production grants from the National Endowment of the Arts.
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013 with an MA in Animation, specializing in stop-motion.
Winter in the Rainforest, the first in her nature trilogy, premiered at Annecy in 2019, winning 13 festival prizes and the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award. Anu-Laura, known for her set designs in stop-motion films, won the 2022 Estonian Film and TV Award for Best Production Design. She teaches animation at her alma mater.
Winter in the Rainforest, the first in her nature trilogy, premiered at Annecy in 2019, winning 13 festival prizes and the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award. Anu-Laura, known for her set designs in stop-motion films, won the 2022 Estonian Film and TV Award for Best Production Design. She teaches animation at her alma mater.
For this short film programme at ASAP festival, the theme of heartbreak is interpreted through the shock of meeting with reality and the shattering of childhood fantasies.
As small children, we are raised to believe that the world spreads out before us in a dazzling array of possibility and potential. We are encouraged to dream. Time passes and we grow up. Reality sets in and, for many women, it is a crude wall, fencing off our girlish dreams. The contemporary patriarchal society that we have inherited and now inhabit is a resounding fracture of that potential and possibility that used to dangle before us. What dreams are still possible in the face of the cold, hard intrusion of reality?
This programme layers intimate and startling fantasies from women filmmakers, ranging from corrupted girlhood desires to cracked and limping hybrid dream-nightmares. In a grown-up world that has left innocence and naivety behind, the unbridled dreaming of a young girl still courses wildly beneath the surface like bubbly lava under a cooling earth.
We invite you to come and go throughout these grotesque and disfigured dreams that are only possible after the fall. These fleeting impressions are for you to collect like plastic pearls on fishing wire. Come hungry, come sleepy, come curious.
As small children, we are raised to believe that the world spreads out before us in a dazzling array of possibility and potential. We are encouraged to dream. Time passes and we grow up. Reality sets in and, for many women, it is a crude wall, fencing off our girlish dreams. The contemporary patriarchal society that we have inherited and now inhabit is a resounding fracture of that potential and possibility that used to dangle before us. What dreams are still possible in the face of the cold, hard intrusion of reality?
This programme layers intimate and startling fantasies from women filmmakers, ranging from corrupted girlhood desires to cracked and limping hybrid dream-nightmares. In a grown-up world that has left innocence and naivety behind, the unbridled dreaming of a young girl still courses wildly beneath the surface like bubbly lava under a cooling earth.
We invite you to come and go throughout these grotesque and disfigured dreams that are only possible after the fall. These fleeting impressions are for you to collect like plastic pearls on fishing wire. Come hungry, come sleepy, come curious.
Short film programme:
* All About a Girl (2004, Cecelia Condit)
An ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, a young girl projects life, voice, and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress.
* Lick in the Past (2016, Laure Prouvost)
Lick In The Past tracks characters of the Los Angeles youth in playful, wistful conversation in and around their car. They speak of their fantasies of comfort and connection and invoke dreamlike scenarios.
* Lasso (2000, Salla Tykkä)
A woman sees a powerful man behind the window. Lasso exposes a moment in a young woman's life; a moment at which one's inability to face the other – or oneself, even – is squeezed into a powerful sensation somewhere on the edge of the unreal.
* Crocus (1971, Suzan Pitt)
A woman performs her nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love with her man. Meanwhile, a wild assortment of moths, birds, flowers, and vegetables—including a huge cabbage—float through the room and out the window. (Mubi)
* On Weary Wings Go By (2024, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg)
The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
An ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, a young girl projects life, voice, and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress.
* Lick in the Past (2016, Laure Prouvost)
Lick In The Past tracks characters of the Los Angeles youth in playful, wistful conversation in and around their car. They speak of their fantasies of comfort and connection and invoke dreamlike scenarios.
* Lasso (2000, Salla Tykkä)
A woman sees a powerful man behind the window. Lasso exposes a moment in a young woman's life; a moment at which one's inability to face the other – or oneself, even – is squeezed into a powerful sensation somewhere on the edge of the unreal.
* Crocus (1971, Suzan Pitt)
A woman performs her nightly domestic rituals—from putting her baby to bed to making love with her man. Meanwhile, a wild assortment of moths, birds, flowers, and vegetables—including a huge cabbage—float through the room and out the window. (Mubi)
* On Weary Wings Go By (2024, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg)
The sun moves low and days get shorter. Birds fly South, porcelain animals and insects hide from the freezing wind and snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.
Price
Free
Timetable
17:00 / Doors
17:00 / Start
TBA /
Location
Pilar Box (Ground Floor)
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
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