Coorevits’ film matter on its dance through time (2025) unfolds from an ongoing conversation between the artist and the landscape of Death Valley, California. Within the dialogue between image, word, and sound, a sensory narrative takes shape, lending significance to the fragility and intricacies of the vast scenery. In collaboration with writer Charlotte Van den Broeck, Coorevits researched the relationship between landscape and the human body. From this metaphorical space, the film talks about hurt and the impact of violence. Inner wounds find their equal in the gradual shifts of the landscape’s matter, so subtle we almost miss it. Coorevits captures the nuanced movements and (colour) changes in the environment. She barely manipulates, allowing the surroundings to shape the cinematic image. The moon trembles, storms brew, and we are momentarily blinded by the rising sun – or perhaps the pixels are just overly saturated. Words break through the silence of the images: “(...) hurt is in the smallest of particles (...)”. A hand carefully stacks stones.
Matter On Its Dance Through Time + l’Ancre
Screening at DeCinema - FRI 6 MAR - 20:15
Jana Coorevits - ''Matter On Its Dance Through Time''
Simultaneously with Jana Coorevits’ exhibition “luchtvlak landschap zon, maan”, her film ''Matter On Its Dance Through Time'' will be screened at DeCinema on Friday, March 6, at 8:15 PM.
Kathy Vanhout and Alex Schuurbiers will give a short introduction before the screening.
In an immense landscape, nature’s fragility and detail take on meaning. The moon shakes, a stone balances on a rock, a storm obscures an entire mountain range. Visible frailty evokes the vulnerability in the aftermath of sexual violence.
February 6, 2026
