Brussels’ Scores: Les Rengaines + Happy Fuji News

Filmhuis Cavia becomes the home of a truly unmissable coupling of experimental musical pieces hailing from Brussels. Come over for a perfect Friday evening of music and visual arts!

Les Rengaines
Pablo Guarise | 2023 | Belgium | 25’

First, we open with Les Rengaines, a beautiful 25-minutes musical documentary, outlying the daily life of a café in the north of Brussels through the songs that customers sing to forget their daily struggles, to remember about who they lost along the way, or just to have fun. Music acts as the red line connecting not only the characters, but also the structure of the short, giving it a really mesmerizing rhythm.

Happy Fuji News
Eric Kinny | 2022 | Belgium | 33’

Following, we change a step by showing a “live-animated performed” movie, Happy Fuji News, created with a technique which feels in equal parts innovative and archaic. Here the story of a tourist guide escaping commercial hardship through the chance meeting of an ASMR artist, will be told through over 200 woodcuts, all printed, written and carved by Eric Kinny, Brussels-based artist. The woodcuts will be shown and thrown at the rhythm of an audio soundtrack with MIDI guitar music by Raphaël Desmarets, with sound effects, and voice acting by McCloud Zicmuse, Siet Phorae, Molly Rex, Ma Clément, Alice Perez & Joey Wright.