Jeanet Film Adulte, 2025

A new film by Pauline Curnier Jardin
Produced and comissioned by steirischer herbst ’25 & NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film

Jeanet Film Adulte (2025) is a film co-produced with steirischer herbst and NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film, and made in collaboration with residents from Aalst. Shot across two editions of the city’s carnival, the work follows the figure of the Voil Jeanet: men cross-dressing as caricatures of the sex worker, poor mother and madwoman. The film opens in reverse—at night, after the party—a cinematic gesture that echoes Carnival’s core logic of inversion. Beginning near the factory in central Aalst, the camera roots the work in the city’s industrial and working-class history, binding the spectacle to its infrastructural and social underbelly, even as those conditions have shifted. What starts in an atmosphere of quiet unease gives way to glitter, prosthetic flesh, plastic breasts and genitals, baby heads between thighs, and gore in full daylight. Costumes appear as both disguise and weapon, exposing the violence of stereotype while indulging in its grotesque excess.

Watch the trailer: Jeanet Film Adulte

Jeanet Film Adulte, 2025 
16 mm film and video transferred to 4K video, 5.1 surround sound, 14:55 min. 
Directed by Pauline Curnier Jardin 
Produced and comissioned by steirischer herbst ’25 & NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film
Line producer Visage Productions – Quentin Goujout 

Camera & Photography
16mm – Alasdair Asmussen Doyle, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Alexi Van Hennecker
Video – Crispin YanisiGoPro – Amani Abdalla Teia Juma, Emma Crombé, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Rubi Maier, Chloé Spittael, Kadijah Sumah, Nona Uyttenhove, Mattis Van Schuylenbergh, Jeroen Van Steendam 
Camera assistants 16mm – Hugo Malidin, Laure Massiet
Camera assistant GoPro – Nikolai Jessen

Sound chief operators- Thomas Bouric, Bruno Schweisguth 
Editing – Eve Le Cardonnel (assist. Alex Tornier)
Sound design and sound editing – Antonio Giannantonio 
Re-recording mixing – Sandro Rossi
Color grading – Thomas Vinrich

Music – McCloud Zicmuse & Linus Vandewolken 
Graphic design – Roxanne Maillet 

Line production team – Godart Bakkers, Laura Herman, Yasaman Tamizkar, Martina Silvi, Agathe Jourdan 
Technical support – ColorByDeJonghe (Kortrijk), Frame by Frame (Roma), La Prod Du Sud (Marseille) 
Thanks to – Mocke Depret, Rubi Maier, Lucile Desamory, Rachel Garcia, Martina Silvi, NW Film Club, Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), ChertLüdde (Berlin)

With the support of Flanders State of the Art and the City of Aalst
© Pauline Curnier Jardin – 2025