Ghent Film Week: Contemporary Shorts 1

FRIDAY, 3 OCTOBER / 20:00 - 22.00

This screening session includes 9 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. The festival focuses on contemporary cinema and video art and places its films where they belong – within the vibrant context of other art forms.

Tic Tac (Belgium) by David Perreard

As the sky tears apart and meteorites threaten, Paul and Mathilde, tornado chasers, head off into the woods on a wild goose chase that will put their union to the test.

Running time: 00:03:24

Pluto in Aquarius (Belgium) by Hippolyte Laveix

She loves to dance, eat and frolic. She also observes. People, sky, nature ... Something has begun.

Running time: 00:19:18

Filicide (France) by Christophe Ideal

A disabled dancer meets a spectral creature.

Running time: 00:05:40

After Dark (Norway) by Iain Forbes

On his way home one night, Kristian encounters a young woman in desperate need of help. He agrees to accompany her to the train station, but soon begins questioning her story.

Running time: 00:10:07

Becoming (United Kingdom) by Shelley Hopkins

Becoming transports us to an otherworldly realm where an angelic chorus of synth and suggestion underscores an ever- changing landscape that is simultaneously fixed at the micro - the savage and purposeful dance of creation and destruction and the macro - the unimaginably vast and unwittingly beautiful scale of an unthinking and an unknowable universe swirling towards it's next stage.

Running time: 00:04:48

Roses (United States) by ANDi LAND

The self-destructive nature of seeking love and

validation from external sources.

Running time: 00:02:38

Jellymama (Finland) by Hertta Kiiski

A body emerges from a jellylike substance into a warped universe in which inside becomes outside and outside inside in an infinite loop. Ephemeral others appear and disappear, diving into, consuming and nourishing one another.

Jellymama pulls the viewer close beyond the comfortable. Onto the skin, the flesh, exploring secret portals of both body and psyche. With insisting intimacy and unruly playfulness it wants to allure, provoke, excite and repel it’s spectator evoking a direct physical response. Tenderness, awe, love and horror all fluctuate in Jellymama’s wet embrace.

Running time: 00:13:00

Dreamland (United States) by Maxfield Biggs and Tehya Jennett

An experimental, pseudo silent film using fragmented archival footage, prose, and propaganda to dissect the ecological devastation that came with the “American Dream.”

Running time: 00:03:52

Scenario (Japan) by Kazunori Miura

Set in the future shortly after singularity has happened, this is a story of a woman's decision in a world where the "scenario" has come to present optimal solutions.

Running time: 24:59

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