SLARG screening
Aula, Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts
15:15 - 19:30
15:30 - Make It Look Real · Danial Shah (70 min)
17:00 - Hear Her Calendar System: A Year of Thirteen Months · Bianca Baldi (20 min)
17:45 - L’Arbre de l’Authenticité · Sammy Baloji (85 min)
Make It Look Real
Danial Shah
Danial Shah explores the relationship between photography, imagination, and the construction of identity. Set against the backdrop of a photo studio in Pakistan (Quetta), the film considers how images shape dreams, aspirations, and perceptions of reality. Through the act of making photographs, it reflects on the social and personal meanings attached to representation, and on the ways photography can create, transform, and challenge the realities we inhabit.
Image: film poster
Hear Her Calendar System: A Year of Thirteen Months
Bianca Baldi
Bianca Baldi reflects on alternative ways of sensing and organising time. Filmed in the Timbavati Game Reserve, the work brings together voice, image, sound, and animation in a meditation on landscape and the more-than-human world. Through its layered visual and sonic language, the film invites us to consider how time might be experienced beyond familiar human systems, and how other rhythms of life can open up different ways of understanding our surroundings.
Film still caption:
Hear Her Calendar System: A Year of Thirteen Months (2025), film still. 19’07”. Produced by WIELS. Filmed at Tanda Tula, Timbavati Game Reserve.
L’Arbre de l’Authenticité
Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji explores the entangled histories of colonialism, ecological transformation, and knowledge production in the Congo Basin. The film considers the traces left by colonial scientific and agricultural projects, and the ways these histories continue to shape relationships between people, land, and the natural world. Through the presence of the forest and the voices of scientists, Baloji reflects on memory, extraction, and the complex legacies of colonialism, inviting us to reconsider how history is embedded in landscapes and continues to resonate in the present.
Image: film poster
