Louise Bongartz
Key Facts
She earned a BA in Illustration from ESA Saint-Luc Liège, followed by a BA in Animation from ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. She later specialized in stop-motion during a MA at the BAU Design College of Barcelona.
Her student graduation film “HEXED”, co-directed by Forest Gamble and Francisco Martins Fontes, have been screened and awarded in many internationals festivals. Her first movie “In Thousand Petals” won the Magritte for Best Animated Short in 2025.
Louise works mainly with wood and paper, she also experiment the others textures and materials to find a visual impact. Each story must embody its own unique visual consistency.
Her work oscillates between visual poetry and fantasy, characterized by a distinct sensitivity and a refined aesthetic.
Project info
During her residency at the MQ, Louise plans to develop her new project. She wants to explore the memory of the paper.
She would like to investigate the traces of memory left by charcoal on paper, to find a line that can relate the memories of a character who is gradually losing her humanity.
This story lives with Louise since two years, it’s time to right down all of these sequences who haunted her.
Louise wants to take the opportunity provided by the MQ residency and having time to develop visual choices.