the wasp and the weather
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video, colour, 16:9, stereo & 5.1, Dutch spoken (EN st), BE, 2019, 19'
‘the wasp and the weather’ is Robin Vanbesien’s new film that focuses on Rzoezie, a former youth centre in Mechelen, Belgium. Rzoezie was founded and organised in 1978 by young people of Moroccan and Amazigh descent. Inspired by Paulo Freire’s ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’, the centre focused on education and organisation by the youngsters, for the youngsters: bottom up and from the inside. “Rzoezie” is the Arabic word for “wasp”.
In the centre the youngsters wrote poetry. These poems preserve to various extent the activist history of the moment in which they were written and dedicated to (1990-2000). In ’the wasp and the weather’, some of the original authors (M’Hamed El Ouali, Abdelhay Ben Abdellah) and contemporary poets (Samira Saleh, Mathieu Charles, members of the Post Collective) revisit, recite and discuss these poems.
’the wasp and the weather’ (2019) is part of an ongoing study of the imaginary which holds together self-organized social practices (starting with the film ’Under These Words (Solidarity Athens 2016)’ 2017).
Q & A
The premiere on Sunday October 20th (20:30 - 22:00) is followed by a conversation between the artist and M’Hamed El Ouali, Samira Saleh and Mathieu Charles, Abdelhay Ben Abdellah, Mirra Markhaeva, Elli Vassalou, Hooman, Mohamed Tawfiq, Fatma Alomrani and Muhned Bnana
TRAILER | the wasp and the weather | a film by Robin Vanbesien | 2019 from Robin Vanbesien on Vimeo.
Produced by timely, coproduced by Contour 9 and Spectre productions, supported by Darna – Flemish Moroccan culture house, BUDA arts centre Kortrijk, Arts in Society Award, Antwerp Research for the Arts, and Amsab-ISG.
- Contributor·s
- Robin Vanbesien
- Location
- nona arts centre - old hall
- Begijnenstraat 19
2800 Mechelen (B)
