Robin Vanbesien

As a visual artist and filmmaker, Robin Vanbesien explores modes of embodied knowledge  and collective imagination engaged in social and political struggles. Through the notion of  ciné place-making, he acknowledges the capacity of cinema to preserve, reclaim, or 

redistribute invisibilized memories, histories, and lived cultures, using a cinematic language  that probes beyond the prevalent scenes of representation. He collaborates with situated  emancipatory grassroots movements, exploring cinema as a space for social gathering and  political engagement that rehearses the capacity to hold space collectively. In 2020,  Vanbesien co-founded The Post Film Collective, which explores cinema as a form of  speculative rehearsal and communal assembly. 'Under These Words (Solidarity Athens 2016)' (2017) and 'the wasp and the weather' (2019) premiered at transmediale and Cinéma  du Réel. His first feature ‘hold on to her’ had its world premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded  (2024).