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Opening Night Ghent Film Week: Contemporary Shorts 1
MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER / 20:00 - 22.00 This screening session includes 5 short films. All films are in English and/or have English subtitles. @ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Ghent, Belgium Entry is free and includes a drink! Free tickets. The Ghent Film Week is often referred to as Europe's most obscure film festival. An island oasis for art amidst a sea of commercialism. Sure, it's modest in form, as we mainly focus on screening films and less on the glitter and glamour.


FRICTION — Where reality begins to shift
Velvet Room / Gallery Ligne Claire Art Alpacastraat 29, Gent Maandag 28/9 - Zondag 4/10 (14.00 - 19.00) FRICTION — Where reality begins to shift Wat gebeurt er wanneer het vertrouwde begint te verschuiven? Wanneer een stad geen stad meer is, een landschap zich ontpopt tot een maquette, of een eenvoudige boom verandert in een herinnering? FRICTION brengt drie kunstenaars samen die elk op hun eigen manier werken in dat spanningsveld: de ruimte tussen wat we denken te zien en wa


Ghent Film Week: The Rabbit Holes
MONDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER - SUNDAY, 4 OCTOBER / 14:00 - 18.00 Screening 5 short films in loop. All films are in English and/or have English subtitles. @ Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Ghent, Belgium The Ghent Film Week is often referred to as Europe's most obscure film festival. An island oasis for art amidst a sea of commercialism. Sure, it's modest in form, as we mainly focus on screening films and less on the glitter and glamour. The festival focuses on contemporary cinema


Piero Toffano 'Instant Nude'
Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent / Monday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 4 / 14.00-18.00 Original Polaroid photos by Piero Toffano Piero Toffano 1956 is a contemporary Italian photographer specialized in nude photos. Enrolled in the FIAF, from 2018 to 2021 he was a Gold photographer of Photovogueitalia. He has exhibited on various occasions both collective and personal, lately: - May 2021 exhibited at Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center in Japan - September 2021 exhibite


Michael Lentz 'Work on Paper'
Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent / Monday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 4 / 14.00-18.00 « Drawing is a mysterious intermediate realm, a homeland, a place where the inner landscape forces the correspondence with the outer one. Never arrangement, never replication of photographs. Drawing is crime scene, study of the lost & recovered crime scene. Tried decryption only the appearance of interpreted characters, return to the cryptic. Collection & unbundling. Drawing is a failed


Roel van Timmeren 'This is not a Lamp'
Velvet Room, Alpacastraat 29, 9000 Gent / Monday, Sept. 28 to Sunday, Oct. 4 / 14.00-18.00 Sculpture of wood, polystyrene glass and plastic. A wooden real size replica of the German Biber, a one-man submarine from World War II. The sculpture was painted with phosphor paint, which makes it glow in the dark and which gives an unreal, fairy-tale effect. Roel van Timmeren has his roots in painting. Painting enables him to critically question the world around him and relate to the
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