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This short film talks about the Gesamthof / A lesbian garden, an art-nature project in Antwerp between the walls of an old monastery. In this audiovisual time document, we follow a guided tour by Eline De Clercq, the driving force of the garden project. The garden provides an entry point to talk about diverse topics such as colonialism in botany, the ambiguity of naming, the social expectations of women and the search for a lesbian identity. This garden is inspired by the books of ecofeminists and other writers, like Donna Haraway, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jamaica Kincaid, Virginia Woolf and many others. The collaboration between the two artists Anne and Eline started in the Gesamthof, where the two first met, and continues today in various gardens.

Anne Reijniers (1992, Belgium) is a filmmaker based in Antwerp. Her collaborative practice questions colonial history, the occupation of public space and the ethics of collaboration. Anne holds a Master's degree in Audiovisual Arts from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and KASK in Ghent. Her collaborative films, made with Collectif Faire-Part, have been screened in several national and international film festivals and exhibitions. With the film Faire-part, she won several awards, including at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, the Congo International Film Festival, and the Brussels Art Film Festival. Eline De Clercq (1979, Belgium) in Antwerp I have a studio next to a monastery garden where I cared for the Gesamthof from 2019 to 2025. Trained as a painter I expand my practice in other mediums like gardening, film, writing, ceramics. I like to work in collaboration with other artists and often create community related events like the Homesick Tea Gathering. Several of my projects focus on antiracial and anti-misogynist topics, with extra care for intersectional realities. Since 2022 I work as an artistic researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.