Belgian art-rock band Ghinzu release W.O.W.A
Arnaud Uyttenhove captures the beauty and bruises of youth in W.O.W.A.
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CAVIAR Brussels director Arnaud Uyttenhove has created W.O.W.A, an evocative eight-minute short film accompanying Belgian art-rock band Ghinzu's long-awaited fourth studio album of the same name.
Rather than following the conventions of a traditional music video, W.O.W.A unfolds as a collection of cinematic fragments, anonymous portraits, fleeting encounters and suspended moments that together form an intimate exploration of youth, identity and emotional vulnerability.
Set across a seemingly endless summer between friends, the film occupies the space between possibility and uncertainty: a point in life when everything still feels open, but the first cracks are beginning to appear.
Faces and identities shift throughout. It is never entirely clear who we are watching, what connects them, or even whether some of the characters might be members of the band themselves. The ambiguity is deliberate, allowing individual moments to become something more universal. Uyttenhove explains: “Through anonymous portraits and fleeting moments, the piece explores universal emotions and struggles tied to youth, where everything still feels possible, yet the first cracks already begin to appear.”
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- Production Company Caviar/Brussels
- Director Arnaud Uyttenhove
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- Director Arnaud Uyttenhove
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- Executive Producer Eva van Riet
- Producer Joel Domingos
- Executive Producer Jonas Poeckens
- Art Director Basil Crollet
- DP Edouard Le Grelle
- Editor Govert Janse
- Post Producer Katia Renson
- Post Producer Jean Waterlot
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Caviar/Brussels
- Director Arnaud Uyttenhove
- Post Production Frames Post Production
- Color 42 Post
- Production Services 8feetfixer
- Executive Producer Eva van Riet
- Producer Joel Domingos
- Executive Producer Jonas Poeckens
- Art Director Basil Crollet
- DP Edouard Le Grelle
- Editor Govert Janse
- Post Producer Katia Renson
- Post Producer Jean Waterlot
The film draws on the themes and visual identity surrounding W.O.W.A, Ghinzu's first studio album in 17 years, but exists as a piece of filmmaking in its own right. Rather than illustrating individual songs, Uyttenhove translates the atmosphere and emotional undercurrents of the record into a fragmented visual world.
He continues: “For me, it is above all an ode to youth: sensitive, bruised, sometimes lost, searching for its place, loving too intensely, protecting itself poorly, and transforming its wounds into light.” Jonas Poeckens, EP at Caviar, Brussels says: “Projects like W.O.W.A remind us why we love making films. W.O.W.A gave Arnaud the opportunity to create something uncompromisingly cinematic, and we're delighted to see that vision accompany Ghinzu's long-awaited return. Very proud to have helped bring Arnaud's vision to life.”
Born in Brussels, Uyttenhove has developed a filmmaking style rooted in striking imagery, texture and an ability to turn abstract ideas into cinematic worlds. In W.O.W.A, that visual language meets Ghinzu's own longstanding relationship with art and experimentation.
The band cite artists including Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon among the influences surrounding the new record, alongside a desire to move away from perfectionism and embrace something rawer and more instinctive.
The result is a film that sits somewhere between music film, portraiture and short-form cinema, capturing youth not as a nostalgic ideal, but as something beautiful, uncertain, bruised and constantly in motion.
