Film Screening

We invite you to discover Alzou, a short film by Ugo Woatzi. The film is created during the artist’s residency at WIELS in 2025, coinciding with the exhibition Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order, and is produced with the support of Frédéric de Goldschmidt. Through various media—here, film—Woatzi interweaves the intimate with fiction and queer theory. The poetic quality of his work opens up political questions, using imagination as a tool to examine the world and reinvent it.

The evening begins with two consecutive screenings of Alzou (19’), followed by a conversation with filmmaker Ugo Woatzi, WIELS curator Sofia Dati, composer Mélodie Blaison, and performer Alban Ovanessian. The event concludes with a concert by Mélodie Blaison, who presents an electroacoustic performance weaving flutes, ceramic instruments and field recordings into poetic, speculative soundscapes.

Synopsis:
The unique local queer community that once thrives in the Alzou Valley has vanished. Alzou – the deity of the river – moves cautiously through the landscape, lost yet determined, searching for a way to restore balance in the valley after years of exile. The dense forest envelops them, whispering its secrets as they linger in silence, attempting to reconnect with nature.

18:30 – First screening
19:00 – Second screening
19:30 – Talk with Ugo Woatzi, Sofia Dati, Alban Ovanessian, Mélodie Blaison
20:00 – Concert by Mélodie Blaison

With the support of WIELS, VGC, CLOUD SEVEN, SOFAM.