crossing aside
2025
Film
By Mira Sanders & Cédric Noël
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.
Full HD 16:9, 00:05:12
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
First shown at the Footbridge Chur 2025, Chur, Switzerland - 3.09.-5.09.2025
