Robin Vanbesien

The Post Film Collective

(2020-...)

"With the notion that when you tell a story (not my/your story) in assembly there is no owner, as the story creates the assembly, we are trying to find our own “story”, which will create its own assembly."
The Post Film Collective

The Post Collective is an autonomous platform of co-creation, co-learning, and cultural activism, located between Ghent and Brussels in Belgium. It is created by Mahammed Alimu, Marcus Bergner, Hooman Jalidi, Sawsan Maher, Mirra Markhaëva, and Elli Vassalou: artists with different means and access to artistic production due to their legal status (refugees, asylum seekers, sans-papiers, documented citizens). Generative modes of kinship, solidarity, dialogue, and storytelling form the basis of their speculative and experiential approaches to art and design. Since 2020, in collaboration with Robin Vanbesien, The Post Film Collective elaborates on the work and experiences of The Post Collective in the realm of cinema.

The Post Film Collective explores a polyphonic cinema practice while taking its cue from the poem ‘Recreation’ by Audre Lorde. In her poem, Lorde explores a double binding of interrelating activities - ‘it is easier to work / after our bodies / meet’ - that led to what she claimed was ‘recreation’, with its connotations of play, reciprocity, care, repetition, and regeneration. The film process is available for the continuous re-composition of both conditions and artistic forms. The gathering of various languages, expressions, and rhythms prevents the film production from nesting neatly.