Ghent Film Week: Giant's Kettle + Shorts

WEDNESDAY, 1 OCTOBER / 20:00 - 22.00

This screening session includes 2 short films + 1 feature film.

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.

You Can't Find Love (United States, United States) by Tom Bessoir

This experimental film is based on a permutation poem I wrote in 1979. the film explores selective viewing by overloading the brain with different presentations of my permutation poem.

Running time: 00:02:00

. (United States) by Derrick Schultz

An experiment in meditative and stripped down cameraless filmmaking, edited and sequenced using machine learning models.

Running time: 00:09:00

Giant's Kettle (Finland) by Markku Hakala, Mari Käki

Somewhere up north at the age of peak reason there is a man longing for connection but unable to break loose, and a woman feeling alien to the world which has everything figured out for her, without her. They make their best to fit in and fulfill their roles. But something important is missing, as if the whole world was drained of love. During the family trip back to the past the surreal takes over and everything starts to break apart. Giant’s Kettle is a love story without love, a cinematic journey into the unconscious, an epic tragicomedy of the mundane, and a mystery in a world emptied of mystery.

Running time: 01:11:00

https://www.ghentfilmweek.com/screening3