An Evening of Walking, Travel and Migration through Film & Video
Pierre Tremblay (CAN/FR)Stefaan van Biesen / The Milena Principle (BE)Gigacircus (FR)Moderator: Geert Vermeire (BE)
Moving Images, Moving Worlds brings together filmmakers and artists who use walking as an artistic method to explore journeys, migration, landscapes and human encounters.
The evening opens with the world premiere of Flowers of Ichijo – Art Walk Kyoto, 2026 (25 min.), Pierre Tremblay’s latest Art Walk film. Set on a Sunday in March in Kyoto, the film follows five people walking with five different devices, transforming their distinct perceptions into a collaborative meditation on seeing and being present.
The programme continues with works by Stefaan van Biesen / The Milena Principle, followed by the documentary Cantar o Morir (2022, 53 min.). The film offers a perspective on a culture whose forms of creation have largely remained outside the frameworks of Western artistic creation. For the Rarámuris, walking and running are acts of cultural, spiritual, artistic, and ritual resistance. Directed by Sylvie Marchand and Lelio Moehr, with sound creation by Lionel Camburet, and produced by Temps Réel (France/Mexico). Original Rarámuri, Spanish and French version with subtitles.
After the screenings, the filmmakers engage in a conversation about the role of film and video within contemporary walking art, and about walking as a way of revealing places, memories and worlds in transition.
Walking Arts & Local Communities (WALC) is an artistic cooperation project, co-funded by the European Union, Creative Europe, starting in January 2024 for four years. With seven partners from five countries, WALC establishes an International Center for Artistic Research and Practice of Walking Arts, in Prespa, Greece, at the border with Albania and North Macedonia, backed up by an online counterpart in the format of a digital platform for walking arts.
WALC builds on the previous work of hundreds of artists and researchers already practicing Walking Arts as a collaborative medium, and having met at the significant previous walking arts events and encounters in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, and during online activities at walk · listen · create.
We acknowledge the support of the EU Creative Europe Cooperation grant program in the framework of the European project WALC (Walking Arts and Local Community).
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
