CINÉ CITY is not your typical cinema. Instead, it’s a shop window transformed into a large screen, showcasing an art film by a selected artist daily for a limited time. The name CINÉ CITY pays homage to a former cinema with the name CITY-CINÉ, located just a few blocks away, which closed its doors in 1972. Decades later, this new window cinema blends into the rhythm of daily life along an old shopping street, a vital artery connecting the communes of St. Josse and Schaarbeek.

SCREENING #3

Polina Kanis – Celebration (2014)
HD Video, 13:27

Men in uniform dance indifferently, their roles and intentions unclear. Although their movements are synchronized, a strong sense of isolation persists, with each figure confined to a personal space and emotionally distant from the others. Absurdity becomes the only meaning, exposing a tradition of celebration emptied by the relentless experience of daily repression.

Polina Kanis (born in Russia, based in the Netherlands) uses video and performance in ways that are both haunting and humorous. Her work examines the invisible mechanisms of power, showing how they shape our behavior in subtle and silent ways, and inviting us to consider how we might begin to resist them.

SCREENING #2

Pankaj Tiwari – Paperplanes (2025)
HD Video, 02:21

Who is allowed to fly and whose hope must remain grounded?

For some, a plane represents thoughtless overconsumption; for others, it is a vessel of dreams. Paperplanes by Pankaj Tiwari critiques capitalist perspectives on environmental justice. This video adapts his theatrical production and visual installation of the same name. Over thousands of hours, Tiwari has meticulously folded paper planes—a meditative practice that reflects on class and geographical inequalities.

Pankaj Tiwari (Balrampur, India) is an artist and curator whose work spans theatre, art education, and curatorial projects. His practice examines how individuals can reshape the conditions imposed upon them, confronting power dynamics between economic classes, as well as between the West and the Global South.

SCREENING #1

Elen Braga – Flesh, stone, iron and clay; part one (2024)
HD Video, 04:05

In Flesh, Stone, Iron and Clay; part one, visual artist Elen Braga examines authority, power, and submission with a surreal edge. A car moves through an industrial landscape, flanked by silent guards who frantically perform gestures, as if obeying an unseen force. Are they rehearsing? Their movements feel both aimless and ritualistic, a hollow performance of control. Their puppet-like behavior satirizes humanity’s instinct to submit to authority—often at its own expense.

Elen Braga (Maranhão, Brazil) is a visual artist known for her multidisciplinary practice, spanning video, sculpture, textile art, and performance. Her work explores power structures, resilience, and the interplay between mythology and contemporary society. Often incorporating elements of absurdity and surrealism, she challenges social norms and historical narratives.