Etiquetas: Art Cinema OFFoff

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OFFoff Cinema: Televizinho, a live video-essay by Veridiana Zurita

By Günter Hilderson on Lun, 28/11/2016 - 03:28

Televizinho is an ongoing project of re-enactments of soap operas in different contexts in Brazil. Its first edition took place in 2014 when Veridiana Zurita worked together with the riverside community 'Santa Isabel' in the Amazon. During 4 months she lived together with different families along the Tupana river, eating what they ate , sleeping as they did, watching what they watched: soap operas. Every night they looked at the soap together and picked out a scene to re-enact the next day. While using the participants' houses as movie set, the re-enactments took the form of something between fiction and documentary. The way soaps seem to order language and physicality was disturbed by those re-enacting it while different logics of appropriation were inaugurated.

Fechas:
De Lunes, Diciembre 5, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Diciembre 6, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Moldy and infected

By Günter Hilderson on Mar, 22/11/2016 - 15:13

In 1927, Jan Cornelis Mol, who was then director of the Fruitveiling, made "From the realm of crystal", an early example of the use of time-lapse photography in film. Using microscope and macro lens Mol makes a stunning film that shows the biological and chemical crystals. This work was picked up by the avant-garde artists who saw this film as the example of the absolute film. In the famous Studio 24 in Paris the work was even shown as an expanded work with three projectors!
Fechas:
De Lunes, Noviembre 28, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Noviembre 29, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Computer Games

By Günter Hilderson on Mar, 08/11/2016 - 03:20

There was a moment, now passed, when the capabilities of the internet and the dreams and ambitions of its users perfectly aligned, before the virtual had been unmasked as another instrument of capitalism and control. At this moment - June 23, 2003, to be precise -Second Life began. The sci-fi promise of a virtual world where people could live out some alternate existence had been fulfilled, rising from the aftermath of the dot-com crash.

Fechas:
De Lunes, Noviembre 14, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Noviembre 15, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Memories of Nightmares

By Günter Hilderson on Mié, 02/11/2016 - 08:11

Many of the earliest film experiments were later assigned to the horror genre. Horror nails the viewer to his seat, first by the temptation to look and then the relief that it was all fiction. No genre is so inherently parasitic as in the way it physically adheres to the viewer and inevitably makes him break into cold sweat. Not to mention the many parasites that powers the horror genre, from vampires to aliens to zombies. In this program, we look at how experimental filmmakers operate the horror genre, disassembling it to tinker again as if a new Frankenstein.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Noviembre 7, 2016 - 19:00 hasta Martes, Noviembre 8, 2016 - 18:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Still Moving, an exposition about diafilms

By Günter Hilderson on Dom, 09/10/2016 - 04:41

With its focus on slide film, a medium for which slides are driven through one or more slide carousels, OFFoff’s exhibition Still Moving explores the boundaries of the film medium. Slide film is situated somewhere in the twilight zone where photo, film and experiment meet, calling to mind film classics such as Chris Marker’s La Jetée.
Fechas:
De Martes, Octubre 11, 2016 - 19:00 hasta Viernes, Octubre 21, 2016 - 22:30
Local:
UGent Technicum blok 2 - Gent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Vampir-Cuadecuc

By Günter Hilderson on Mar, 27/09/2016 - 04:26

Pere Portabella (1929, Figueres, Spain) is known as one of the most acclaimed Spanish film directors and producers. After Franco's death, he followed a political career. With 'Vampir-Cuadecuc' he put in 1970, the demands of "nuevos cines" - the cinema supported by the Franco regime - aside. Filmed on the set of Jess Franco's "Count Dracula" (starring Christopher Lee and Herbert Lom) 'Vampire-Cuadecuc' can be best described as an 'avant-garde making-of', where the behind-the-scenes footage is used to bring an equally tragic and funny story about vampirism.

Ben Rivers went to work in a similar way with the recent 'A Distant Episode'. He was filming on the set of the London artist Shezad Dawood and refers not only to Portabella's 'Vampire-Cuadecuc' by using the same method, but also by returning to the electronic soundtrack written by Carles Santos.

Fechas:
De Lunes, Octubre 3, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Octubre 4, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: The Works of Keren Cytter

By Anton Michels on Mar, 26/04/2016 - 12:57

The work of the Israelian Keren Cytter focuses on relations, or on the impossibility of relations, as well as the impossibility of authentic film making. Her films constantly reflect on their own creation process, they disenchant, show that the 'magic light' isn't all that magical, but rather a construction - just like relations and sexuality... Cytter never does so with grudge or pessimism, but with playful and humoristic gestures that are touching and convincing. After working and living in Amsterdam and Berlin, she now resides in New York.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Mayo 30, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Mayo 31, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Selfieland

By Anton Michels on Lun, 04/04/2016 - 17:38

Visual rhetoric in a post-feminist era.

The use of selfies on the internet as an answer to the exploitation, sexualisation en objectification of the female body in today's consumer society manifests itself as a new tendency within (post-)feminism. This tendency is situated mainly on the internet and floods social media and blogs with snapshots of self aware teenagers in provocative poses and/or with eccentric looks. However, there is a thin line between the random selfie and the selfie as an activist tool for a feminist discourse, which has caused a lot of criticism and rejection from within the movement itself. Artists such as Katie Cercone, Amalia Ulman, Juno Calypso and Ann Hirsh make the distinction between cheap selfies and the intentional politicized self-recording in an artistic oeuvre.

Fechas:
De Lunes, Abril 25, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Abril 26, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
Off off Art Cinema: 2x

By Anton Michels on Lun, 22/02/2016 - 16:15

During this presentation we show the legendary Outer and Inner Space by Andy Warhol in its original form, this means with two 16mm projectors and two screens. This epic work contains all the Warholian artistic elements: fame, the portrait, repetion, the reproduction of images... intertwined with Warhol's film work, which turns this film into a selfconscious performance, a homemade Warhol superstar that thus provides commentary on the star system itself. Edie Sedgwick sits next to a monitor that plays a video of her head, while she talks to herself.
Fechas:
De Lunes, Marzo 7, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Marzo 8, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica
OFFoff Cinema: Chick Strand

By Anton Michels on Jue, 18/02/2016 - 10:56

During the retrospective on Agnes Varda in Cinematek Brussels, Offoff introduces Varda's obscure transatlantic counterpart: Chick Strand, along with Bruce Baille co-founder of the legendary Canyon Cinema, but above all, film maker. She was a pioneer in mixing experimental film with documentary cinema and each time she managed to confirm the flexibility of the human mind.

We present an overview of her oeuvre, both the etnographic experiments and the more lyrical works. Ranging from her early films, such as Anselmo, a Mexican child she repeatedly portrayed, to Soft Fiction, recently declared the peak of cinema from the late 70's by Tate. Here it is the feminine sensuality that is confirmed in its obstinance.

Fechas:
De Lunes, Febrero 29, 2016 - 20:00 hasta Martes, Marzo 1, 2016 - 19:55
Local:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Bélgica

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