Offscreen Film Festival 2014 | Offscreen
The Offscreenings program presents a fine selection of special, new and unreleased films, giving a platform to independent, non-conformist filmmakers as well as to movies at the cutting edge of contemporary cinema. These films are noted for their artistic originality,...
Offscreen Guest of honor: The pornographic film industry of today, presenting a sterilized parade of mechanical pounding, has completely lost touch with eroticism. And yet erotic cinema once lived its moment of glory, to which Radley Metzger’s...
Mind the gap is more than just a warning phrase on the London Underground, it's also the favourite saying of the troglodyte cannibalistic killer in the British horror film Raw Meat. Mind the gap: you could also consider it a warning when it comes to watching cult films...
British Cult Cinema - Guest: Born in Jamaica to British parents, Martine Beswick always knew she wanted to be an actress. In her twenties, the exotic beauty moved to London where she got her first acting gig as a Bond girl in From Russia with Love...
British Cult Cinema - Guest: With our focus on British cult films, there's one monument from the 70's that can't possibly be ignored: the ultimate cult classic The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy. Few films from the period still have the same appeal,...
British iconoclast Ken Russell (°1927- †2011) directed some of the most audacious, controversial and stylish films ever. The visionary cineaste owes much to his attention to detail, his flamboyant style and his baroque photography. He began his career in the 60s,...
73 year-old Gisaburo Sugii is a true veteran of Japanese animation. At 18 he was already working on the first-ever Asian animation in colour, The Tale of the White Serpent. After a decade of working as an assistant on classics such as Astro Boy and Lupin III, Sugii was...
Since 2012, the Oaïstern collective from Marseille has been helping an early 20th century genre of now forgotten cinema come back to life: the first European westerns, the baguetti western, if you will. Jean "Joë" Hamman discovered Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show on a...
A hundred years ago (1905-1911) Spanish director Segundo de Chomon – special-effects genius, phantasmagorical cinema pioneer and arch-rival to Mélies - directed a large number of brilliant short films. In 2012 Louislouis (musician/composer of post Belgian music, pupil...
One of this year's festival themes may be British cult cinema, but when it comes to excentricity and ingenuity, Belgium definitely holds its own. We present a fun-filled evening packed with recent and exceptional Belgian oddities. Belgium: land of surrealism, magic...
A nostalgic trip back to the Golden Age of cinema: the Sunday afternoon Matinee screening for all ages. Welcomed by old school hostesses and surprised by gimmicks, treat yourself to ice cream and vintage sixties extravaganza in glorious DeLuxe Color!In collaboration...
Would you like to join your kids while getting nostalgic about what used to play on television? Do you want to show them something “different”, or do you just want to laugh out loud? Then we have just the thing with Cineketje's selection of short British animation...
Every last Friday of the month, Offscreen screens two rarities in Cinematek, uncovered from the darkest recesses of their archives. Two B-to-Z films with a common theme, presented as a double bill for the price of a single ticket. For the month of March, we stick to...
A selection of several films can be watched at different locations in our programme 'Offscreen - on tour' !
