Ateliers de production WIP

Among its many activities, Cinergie organises screenings of short films related to a specific theme. The current theme is production workshops, a French-speaking Belgian specialty. The upcoming screening will feature some of the productions of WIP (Wallonie Image Production), a Liège-based workshop. Four short films will illustrate the wide variety of subjects covered by this workshop.

Flagey, Cinematek, Cinergie

Do It Yourself (Eric Ledune)
A handbook of torture for domestic use, this film-pamphlet is a basic guide to torture in all its forms. The method, devised by leading professionals, is both enjoyable and entertaining, and explores various ways of performing all sorts of successful and delightful tortures without any unwanted mishaps. When is it best to question the subject? How long does a good prison sentence last? How to extract a confession should the need arise?

L'Atelier (Inès Rabadan)
At the beginning of the year 2000, Alexandre Obolensky’s studio created a canvas for the La Monnaie opera house, based on a drawing by John MacFarlane. How do a team of artists reproduce, on a 10-metre canvas, the 30-centimetre original?

Mort à Vignole (Olivier Smolders)
Through a family film shot in Venice, the filmmaker questions the way in which family images influence stories of love and death. From the tangle of moments recorded on film, he draws out the threads of an intimate, profound and serene reflection on life and death. A gentle film that engages with the universality of the subject.

Pêcheurs à cheval (Marc-Antoine Roudil, Sophie Bruneau)
More than a century ago, many horseback fishermen roamed the Belgian coast. Now there are only a handful who practice this form of fishing, which has existed since the Middle Ages. In a film that borders on the experimental, the filmmakers depict an ancestral tradition where man and animal work together, harvesting the North Sea. A film woven like a choreography between man, sea, horse and wind.