Jozef Devillé

In the late 1980s, the Belgian electronic New Beat music movement conquered dance floors worldwide, and all of a sudden Belgium was on the map. This eclectic predecessor of house music appeared to materialize out of nothing, but according to the makers of The Sound of Belgium, it was the product of a historical search for identity that apparently went back to the Battle of Waterloo and the aftermath of the First World War.

‘Our Nature, the Movie’ is an ambitious nature documentary about Belgian nature, full of wonderful stories about well-known and little-known animals that amaze people and increase their love and respect for our nature.

Using only archive footage, Paradigma reveals that the problems we’re facing today are anything but recent. Our economy, the many consequences of climate change, distrust of democracy and even fake news have been around for decades. Paradigma is a cinematic essay showing why we fail as a collective to fundamentally tackle all of these challenges, and appear to be stuck in a loop.