BOWLING BUFFALO, Lien Thys, Hanne Timmermans, Annelore Crollet and Kiana Porte

Somewhere along a main road stands Bowling Buffalo, a place that still looks exactly as it did in 1994 and that has been run for years by four young women – the buffala’s . They started there as student workers, but in the meantime, they are part of the permanent furniture. In their seemingly eternal cocoon, they wait for customers, while they bicker about their loose love lives, drink milkshakes, and smoke cigarettes. Until one of them announces her departure. She wants to take a new direction in her life and leave the bowling alley behind. All those years, the buffala’s have lived in a wonderful sense of timelessness, under the fluorescent light of the retro bowling decor and their own unbridled imagination. But now that someone has dragged the concept of ‘finiteness’ into it, all the pins fall in record time.