Adina Ionescu-Muscel

Looking at the foliage of trees, with its perpetually shimmering backlit leaves, the breeze stirred, like a mass of flickering signs, he felt the rustle amplify and decline as an unfamiliar language. A breach opens, the light passes through and the world unfolds. (Adina Ionescu-Muscel)

The film, based on drawings by Ariane Bergrichter, immerses us in colourful, working-class Brussels, dear to the artist’s heart. While her psychological life has been complicated, she claims to have found her energy for life in the city.

Traits is inspired by artist Cécile Franceus’ work. In her drawings, produced from thousands of lines and loops, hardly any of the surface remains uncovered; she plays with the resistance and vulnerability of the paper. Building up, tearing apart, sticking on, in order to renew again. (Adina Ionescu-Muscel)