To Unveil a Star (2021)

In this experimental film, the maker enters into a direct dialogue with a steel star-shaped sculpture that has been standing in front of the NATO headquarters in Brussels for a lifetime. Against the backdrop of the chronology of the relocation of this iconic sculpture, there is a conversation between Hondius and the sculpture. Who made you? Do we want to keep you as a symbol? Can we still identify with the ideology you represent? To Unveil a Star is a poetic personal film in which the filmmaker attributes anthropomorphic qualities to an iconic sculpture that gives it a superhuman character. The structure of the film plays with cinematic conventions and is a pas-de-deux between reality and fantasy. From a contemporary perspective, To Unveil a Star sheds an iconoclastic light on NATO and its rituals in the media.