MOMA hosts retrospective on Belgian director Caroline Strubbe
Belgian filmmaker Caroline Strubbe is receiving a major honour at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, which is hosting a retrospective of her work. The programme focuses on her trilogy Trying to Forget to Remember, comprising Lost Persons Area, I’m the Same I’m an Other and The Silent Treatment.
The films, which explore themes such as love, loss and the restorative power of imagination, can be viewed in any order. MoMA will screen them in reverse chronology, a choice that highlights how audiences interpret characters differently when unaware of their past. This approach reflects Strubbe’s conviction that understanding someone’s story shapes the way we perceive them.
Shot over more than 15 years, the trilogy has attracted international praise and was selected for prestigious festivals including Cannes and Toronto. The project’s guiding idea is simple yet universal: sometimes we need to lose our way to find it again.
Strubbe’s work has received attention from major international film festivals, and for her repertoire to be on display at MoMA is already an achievement in and of itself for this Belgian director.
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