Ghent Film Week: The Rabbit Holes

MONDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER - SUNDAY, 5 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 and video art and places its films where they belong – within the vibrant context of other art forms.

Jellymama (Finland) by Hertta Kiiski & Karolina Ginman

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

Passage (Serbia) by Filip Markovinović

Short film about crossing over.

Running time: 00:01:00

. (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

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

You Can't Find Love (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

https://www.ghentfilmweek.com/the-rabbit-hole