Watching Words Becoming A Film

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Over the past decades Herman Asselberghs has meticulously built an audiovisual body of work on the relationship between sound and image, poetry and politics. In Watching Words Becoming a Film, words are repeated on screen like a kind of visual mantra; they appear and disappear one after another with precise timing and careful consideration. They invite the viewer to fill the sonic void with their imagination, as if an invisible echo were giving them voice. A film to be read that initiates a silent dialogue with the spectator, suggesting a reflection on the experience of cinematic time.