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Glitches Brew is an audiovisual creation by Benjamin Faconnier, and Samira Ibnelkaïd featuring music from the Papillon project, with Benjamin Faconnier on composition and trumpet, Nicolas Beaulieu on guitar, Luigi Lefèvre on bass, Valentin Suzanne on drums, and Julien Rivière on percussion.

Glitches Brew is a sonic and visual expression on the layered lived experiences of Afrodescendant peoples —particularly those whose lineages trace back to displaced and enslaved ancestors. The glitches are spectral presences, ancestral echoes and future possibilities, co-existing within the breathing living bodies of the present. They represent the entanglement of times, geographies, and emotions that mark Afrodescendant existence. They are buried traumas sparking rebellious rhythms.

In the lives of Afropean peoples, these glitches manifest as the simultaneous presence of alienation and belonging, anger and joy, mourning and celebration, Global South and North colliding within a single being, a single sigh. They are memory and prophecy, resistance and vulnerability, loss and becoming. Glitches confuse the timeline and call for radical remembrance. They are the ache of interrupted lineages and the flame of those re-igniting them.

Glitches Brew channels this complexity into sound, movement, and landscape. This is a brew of contradiction, resilience, and transformation.

Filmed in Reunion Island, this piece honors its Maroons —the escaped enslaved people who resisted colonial domination and built kingdoms in the heart of this volcanic island. Their power remains inscribed in the land, the people, and the music. Their spirit brews on, glitching through generations, remind us that the future, too, is ancestral…