Tripot is a Brussels-based artist collective founded in 2012 by Aïlien Reyns and Marius Packbier. We create audiovisual essays, video installations, and collective practices — continuously driven by one question: how does an image affect the body?
The way we see it, image technologies are not neutral. They are at the same time extensions of our bodies and living organisms in their own right.
We appropriate these technologies to create new forms and mythologies that speak about themselves as well as about us as human beings.
Creation, for us, is collective by definition. It’s a shared practice that exists in time and space. An encounter of bodies, materials and people that is less like a production process and more like a living ritual.
Our research and artistic practice has been included in Sight & Sound’s Best Video Essays (2022), awarded Best Audiovisual Essay at the Marienbad Film Festival (2023), and presented across Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
We are looking forward to seeing more of each other,
Tripot.
EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS
2025
AI Glitches, Hacks & Utopias @ Kunsthal Gent (BE)
2024
Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (FR)
SMALL FILE MEDIA FESTIVAL (US)
BRNO (CZ)
Festival Transterritorial de Cine Under (ARG)
Festival Internacional de la Imagen (COL)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (US)
2023
ULTRAcinema XII (MX)
Marienbad Film Festival (CZ) – Award for Best Audiovisual Essay 
Cineteca Madrid (ESP)
Montreal Underground Film Festival (CA)
Onion City Experimental Film Festival (US)
Ghent International Short Film Festival (BE) – Award for Best Essay Film
2022
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival (TUR)
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (FR)
MalatestaShort Film Festival (IT)
Small File Media Festival (US) – 2022 Award
Brussels Porn Film Festival (BE)
2021
THE STRIKE – Kunsthal Gent (BE)
Girls go Boom Collective – Projections in Public space, Gent (BE)
2020
Launch of interdisciplinary reproductive research platform – reprosist.org
Interdisciplinary workshop series on reproductive labour – Kunsthal Ghent (BE)
2019
Precarious Works – Bogardenkapel, Brugge (BE)
Van vraagouder tot draagmoeder – MO*Paper
2018
Raversyde, Oostende (BE)
De Markten, Brussels (BE)
Book Launch of the publication for Tracking the Subject, Josworld (BE)
Argos, Brussels (BE)
La Cité Miroir, Liège (BE)
2017
Cuba Cultur, Münster (DE)
C-Mine, Genk (BE)
Schunck*, Heerlen (NL)
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (DE)
2016
Interference – 2025 Kunst & Kultur, Hamburg (DE)
Yilan Museum of Art (TWN)
Noida International Film Festival (IN)
Laznia, Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
2015
Input/Output – CC Brugge – Winner Input/Output award 2015 (BE)
iMAL, Brussels (BE)
Recyclart, Brussels (BE)
Screening Scholarship Media Festival, University Pennsylvania (US)
Flanders week – Laznia,Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)
2014
The PICTURE show, New York (US)
Digital Storytelling – Directors Lounge, Berlin (DE)
Pixels of Identities – Museo de Almeria (ES)
Huis van de Vlaamse Film, Brussels (BE)
Etranger International Film Festival, Gioia del Colle (IT)
2013
Jonge Turken – C-mine Cultuurcentrum, Genk (BE)
China platform UGent, Ghent (BE)
2012
URBE – Exhibition in the public space, Brussels (BE)
International Student Film and Video Festival, Beijing (CN)
Sphinx Cinema, Gent (BE)
Cinema Voltaire ‘Das Licht umschreiben’ – St-Lukas, Brussels (BE)
Brussels SF Festival (BE)
RESIDENCIES – SCHOLARSHIPS – SEMINARS
2025 – Artistic in residence at Kunsthal Gent – AI Glitches, Hacks & Utopias
2014-25 – Academic assistant (Aïlien Reyns) for the Seminar of Visual Techniques at the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (VIDI) of the University of Antwerp (BE)
2018-19 – Artist in Residence for the Creative European project for cultural commemoration CON-FRONT
2017 – Member of the VAF Filmlab Wildcard Jury
2015 – LAUREAAT of the Input/Output Award, Bruges (BE)
2015 – Artist in residence (Feb-Apr) at Laznia, Center for Contemporary Art in Gdansk (PL)
2015 – DZIGA Expert Meeting & Filmlab-gathering Nijmegen (NL)
2014 – Selection for the IDFA Doclab Academy in Amsterdam (NL)
2013 – Digital Heritage lab of Oggetti Smarriti in Bari (IT)
2012 – Cinemaster scholarship at the Beijing Film Academy in Beijing (CN)
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Sight and Sound magazine‘s list of the best video essays 2022
Publication INPUT/OUTPUT – Laureaten in de kijker #1
Krant van West-Vlaanderen about Precarious Works
De Morgen about Tracking the Subject
De Wereld Morgen about Tracking the Subject
BRUZZ about Tracking the Subject