Artist statement

There is a reason I was born at home without a doctor, between my mother’s defiance and my father’s terror. Perhaps that first moment - chaotic, raw, utterly cinematic - was an early lesson: to surrender to life and to allow the story to unfold in its own rhythm.

It was a visceral initiation into life, so for me, stories live in the body. They echo like muscle memory. I feel them in unguarded moments, surfacing before the mind can intervene. As a film director I seek to recreate these moments in a tactile cinema, where the image presses into the flesh of the viewer and sound lingers on the tongue like salt. What I pursue is a sensory world, an attempt to translate the unspeakable.

Whether through documentary or fiction, dance film or music video, I explore how rhythm, light, and stillness turn into experience. Again and again I am looking for the thin membrane between self and other, where vulnerability becomes a language of connection.

Achievements

Narrative cinema

With my short documentary BGIRL BADLI I have traveled to different film festivals including Dok Leipzig, Krakow, FIPADOC, FIFA Montreal, IDFA School Programme and Cactus festival, where it won the prize for best short. My second short documentary CORAL CITY (co-directed with Camille Ghekiere) had its international premiere at Popoli festival and was selected and shown at Docville and Leuven Kortfilmfestival in Belgium. Currently, I am working on my fiction short COUP DE VENT and writing my feature film VITESSE.

Feature film ‘VITESSE’ (2025, Torino film lab, writing phase)

Fiction short ‘COUP DE VENT’ (2025, in progress)

Documentary ‘CORAL CITY’ (2024, Docville, Kortfilmfestival Leuven, Popoli)

Documentary ‘BGIRL BADLI’ (2022, Brussels Short Film Festival, Docville, Dok Leipzig, IDFA School Program, etc)

Documentary ‘Dear Angels’ (2020, Kortfilmfestival Leuven, VRT)

VAF scenario-atelier ‘GRIP’ (2016, feature film)

Dance & music

In 2022 I created a musical short film LIQUID LOVE, in close collaboration with the Belgian band Intergalactic Lovers. One year later, my participative hip hop dance film UNGODLY was born with the support of De Singel Arts Center.

Short film ‘UNGODLY’ (2024, Filmfestival Oostende)

Musical short film ‘LIQUID LOVE’ (2022, for Intergalactic Lovers)

Writing

As a screenwriter, I have co-written the coming of age series SEASON OF SEX (VRT MAX). Last year I was asked to write a series of columns for the Brussels magazine BRUZZ, about my inspiring encounters and experiences in my beloved city.

Series ‘Season of Sex’ (2023, Olympia Allaert for VRT)

Columns BRUZZ (2024, BRUZZ)

Academic research

After getting my masters in Languages and Literature, Cultural Studies and the Audiovisual Arts, my brain finds further intellectual stimulation in my academic research process at RITCS Royal School Of Arts, where I dig deeper into my film practice by studying the female gaze in regards to the politics of the dancing body on screen. In my artistic research I am developing a tactile visual language of subjectivity through theory and practice.

Teaching

At RITCS Royal School Of Arts I teach several ateliers for students in collaboration with activistic artists, dancers and musicians. Furthermore, I also read theoretical texts with the students and assist them in their final works.