ACIDE

In 2023, two Brussels-based musicians gave Abel Verheyden carte blanche to create a visual project that would support the narrative of their first album. They told him the story of a man who finds his independence through musical performance and bids farewell to the world of drug dealing that had imprisoned him for too long.

Abel accepted the commission on the condition that he could add a little bit of himself, a little bit of Brussels, and a little bit of light. The result is entitled Acide. A short film depicting a night when three individuals decide to end their relationship with drugs, from the supplier to the consumer. This film is both a commission and a stylistic essay on nighttime, troubled exchanges, and the unsaid.