Short/Long/Live

October/November 2025

Short/Long/Live is a film program selected by Ferdinand Waas and Baroeg Mulder. Split into three separate screenings, the program traces different ways of ‘watching’ and what these habits reveal about the visual culture we live in. Gathering the tendencies and extremes of moving image, Short/Long/Live repositions different modes of viewing within a collective setting.
    Starting with micro-dramas shaped by TikTok-culture, followed by a long-form endurance viewing and the immediacy of live streams, the screenings span an evolving field of attention. Some of these forms are just emerging, others persist on the margins, yet all anticipate how moving image will continue to structure our time, emotions, and perception.
    The screenings function as a survey of formats rather than a single narrative. Together they expose the contrasts that define our contemporary spectatorship where stimulation, distraction, and numbness coexist and reflect a moment in which the act of watching becomes both subject and symptom.
    hosted by Baroeg Mulder and Ferdinand Waas

Program:

29/10    Short: ‘Queen Mom Rules’ (2025) and other vertical short films (120’)

12 /11    Long: ‘15 hours’ (2017, Wang Bing, 950’)

26/11    Live: ‘A frame to a second is an hour to a day’ (2025, 60’)