Art Cinema OFFoff, Gent

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Film Fest Gent & Art Cinema OFFoff

In col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Film Fest Gent, Art Cinema OFFoff brings out the 16mm and Super8 pro­jec­tor for an eve­ning of ana­lo­gue short films by the French-American film­ma­ker Maximilien Luc Proctor, inclu­ding Seasonal Concerns (2024) and the world pre­mie­re of Aotearoa (2024). ​

26.05.2024

The Newest Olds is Pablo Mazollo’s experimental portrait of Detroit in which he unpacks the buildings from their foundations and blurs the political and sensory boundaries between Canada and the United States, through in-camera and optical printing techniques—a transformation of iconic cityscapes.

17.04.2024

Chantal Akerman is omnipresent in Brussels this spring with a retrospective at Bozar and her entire oeuvre on display at CINEMATEK. The short film is an intimate portrait of a young woman who, during her day-to-day routines, reflects on her family, sex life, and body.

04.12.2023

In deze surrealistische film van Henri Storck koopt een jongeman een glazen oog dat hij via de post verstuurt. Op een bijzondere manier komen erotiek en maatschappijkritiek erin samen.

08.12.2023

The Octopus is a cinematic masterpiece that was restored in 2020. As a historical document, it not only depicts an utterly fascinating creature in all its splendour and mystery but also displays the infinite possibilities of the medium of film.

08.12.2023

Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid took inspiration from surrealist films like Un chien andalou and L'Age d'Or by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel for their own avant-garde short film—even though they repeatedly denied it themselves. Following a similar dream logic, Meshes of the Afternoon tells a circular story about a dreaming woman.

02.10.2023

American filmmaker Robert Breer first experimented with rotoscoping in Gulls and Buoys, although by 1972, the technique was already considered outdated. The film is reminiscent of an abstract holiday video on the beach.

22.05.2023

A psychedelic meditation on the filmmaker's life and his detention in a prison in Italy in 1972.