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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.

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Glitches Brew is a sonic and visual expression of 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 transcended through rhythms of resistance.

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 power of re-weaving them.

Glitches Brew translates this experience into sound, movement, and landscape, making salient both fragility and power.

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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 lives on, glitching through generations, reminding us that the future, too, is ancestral…

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Glitches Brew was nominated as a finalist in the “réalisation” category of the music video competition at the 2026 Klip Klap Festival, Reunion Island.