Would you like to study art, music or design? During an info moment, you will get a tour of our campuses or talk to lecturers and study programme supervisors. You can combine your visit with the Graduation exhibition or quickly ask your final questions for the admission or orientation tests.

For John Luther Adams, music encompasses more than just rhythm, harmony, melody and timbre. His compositions are veritable soundscapes and intriguing sonic worlds in which listeners can lose themselves entirely. Kaja Farszky selected four movements from his monumental work, The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies, in which Adams explores the rich potential of percussion instruments such as cymbals, tam-tams and snare drums, whose resonances often call to mind choral music.

Taking Adams’ ideas of resonance and music as their inspiration, Cedric Haeck and Ine Garré set to work. All they need are double basses and their own bodies. Through improvisation, they explore the boundary between music and dance and how tangible or fluid it is. After all, anything or anyone can be a resonating body.

Mona, a retired singer from Northern Sudan, harbours a heavy secret concerning a covered-up murder. Driven by guilt, she takes in Julia, the victim’s South Sudanese widow, and her son.

As the political conflict in Sudan escalates, social divisions deepen. This political unrest seeps into the daily lives of the two women and forces Mona to confront her sins. Through a provocative and allegorical exploration of the complex Sudanese situation, Goodbye Julia invites the viewer to reflect on urgent issues. Rather than answers, this melodrama with thriller elements offers the viewer only questions. Is coexistence without justice even possible?

Director Mohamed Kordofani made his film debut with Goodbye Julia. Sudanese cinema has a long history, but the colonial political situation brought the country’s film production to a virtual standstill. With this film, Kordofani has reignited the spark.

This screening will be introduced by PhD researcher Sarra Khlifi.