crossing aside

The film crossing aside is conceived as a phenomenological portrait of the Annie Vande Wiele pedestrian and bicycle bridge. It approaches the bridge not only as something people live with and use, but as something that itself lives and makes a space. Through details and fragments, the camera traces its surfaces and textures, as well as its living surroundings: birds in flight, spiders weaving webs, rippling water, passing shadows. The bridge emerges as a meeting point of technology, materiality, and environment—anchored in the landscape, the city, and time.

The moving images are accompanied by a composition from Ben Bertrand, whose use of ‘gammes symmétriques’ extends the film into sound, echoing the bridge’s layered presence and rhythm.

Visual artist(s): Mira Sanders and Cédric Noël
Music: Ben Bertrand
Color grading: Miléna Trivier
Commissioned by: NEY & Partners

The Annie vande Wiele bicycle and footbridge was designed by Ney & Partners between 2018 and 2020 and built between 2023 and 2024.

Architecture & engineering Ney & Partners
Landscape design: OMGEVING
light: EER Lighting Design