Europalia 2021 / Exhibition between 23th October and 13th February 2022

Director : Chloé Malcotti

DOP : Nastasja Saerens

Color grading : Sylvain Lange

Camera : Sony Alpha 7sII + Shogun + Leica R lenses

Synopsis :

Another Town, Another Train is a video installation developed in close collaboration with young inhabitants of Seraing, a city in the province of Liège and the former home of steel producer ArcelorMittal (previously Cockerill-Sambre). The first locomotive made in Belgium, Le Belge, left John Cockerill’s factory there in 1835, marking the beginning of the train industry’s strong impact on the city felt to this day. Chloé Malcotti is interested in rendering tangible this looming presence over time and across multiple generations. To do so, she focuses on the experiences of sons and daughters of workers ages 8 to 12 associated with the youth emergency service La Débrouille (“Getting By”) in Seraing. The film is based on drawing workshops that the artist conducted with these children — Bamby, Fatouma, Rodney, Djibril, Mathilde, Farah, Nour, and Sacha — as part of which they appropriate the site’s past in order to invent other possible futures for this particular place.