“As a child I thought that all of Belgium looked like Matonge”
"I get a piece of scenery from every film that I keep. For example, I still have a large blanket with a huge lion on it that the main character in Girl slept under. A highly flammable, synthetic blanket that we bought in the Brabantstraat, that makes you sweat a lot and that all our children still want to sleep under after twenty years."
"And this is a guitar from Rosie and Moussa, made for the scenes in which Rosie imagines her father, who is in prison, playing the guitar for her."
"For me, that guitar represents the collaborations in my work. In Michael De Cock, I found someone I like to work with. Through Rosie and Moussa, I also got to know the Brussels musician Le Motel, who is part of a whole network of other Brussels musicians. That collaboration was so fantastic that we are now working together again for Aller/Retour. He also works intuitively, is a collector of sounds like I am a collector of pictures, and likes to help construct from the beginning instead of pasting something onto the images at the end. I see making films and authorship more as making possible collaborations with people who are also makers themselves, such as Welket Bungué, who plays Idy in Aller/Retour and is also a filmmaker himself." (BRUZZ Select)
