Being a Creator

2025 - Experimental audiovisual Essay

 

Being a Creator is the new audiovisual essay from the Brussels-based artist collective TRIPOT. It explores themes such as reproductive labour, feminine anger & resistance, and the use of creation to envision a more inclusive society. The work invites the spectator into a sensory audiovisual narrative that takes place on and under the skin. The story of feminine bodies that care, work, struggle, toil, fail and overcome, further searching for their position and inclusivity. Throughout the video essay, the narrative zooms in and out from a historical macro perspective on feminine resitance to the most intimate micro testimonies of a young mother-filmmaker and back. Visually evolving from found footage material from the 80s & 90s, over collected digital (social) media footage to new AI-generated images, Being A Creator also offers audiences a study of the visual aesthetics of the audiovisual medium itself since the 1980s to the present day and beyond.

 

SYNOPSIS

Being a Creator will become an audiovisual time document that visually wades back and forth from contemporary recordings of visual experiments with the textures of skin(simulacra) and volumes of bodies, to found footage showing the recent history of anti-feminine discrimination, oppression and violence. Some historical pivotal moments, people and images are highlighted. The found footage images offer an intense and pared-down reading of passive and active violence against “non-men,” as well as the evolving responses to it. Images from subtle to aggressive resistance, from individual to collective. But also images of precipitating, ridiculing, trivializing this resistance.

As the film progresses, we see more and more images of resistance emerge made by activists themselves, after which the collected images are edited by Aïlien Reyns & Marius Packbier to gradually merge with new digitally created feminine image experiments made by themselves within their TRIPOT collective. These digitally & AI-generated images explore how feminine subjects are visually generated today as well as the possibility to correct, deconstruct and above all, shape these images themselves; resulting in the creation of a futuristic and mythical hybrid feminine form that embodies and inspires emancipatory power.

Finally, the film leaves us with this feminine hybrid AI-generated character that reaches us from a futuristic and utopian universe where equality and inclusion are reproduced instead of heteronormative and patriarchal social structures. This AI-generated voice is inspired in part by the ideas of Donna Haraway, a lady we like to imagine the future with.

This new audiovisual production has received screenwriting funding by The Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and is currently being developed as continuation of the research initiated with our current film SKIN PLEASURE (distribution since may 2022) and the Solo exhibition ‘Tools for Reproductive Labour’ (Bruges, 2019).

Currently in Development // Production – March 2026 // Postproduction – June 2026