Offscreen Film Festival 2015 | 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 honour: As the son of a Texas movie theatre owner, Tobe Hooper (°1943) literally grew up in the movies. In the sixties he made short films, documentaries and commercials, until he made his first long feature “Eggshells” out of...
We'll take you on an expedition to the wonderful world of plants, mushrooms and related life forms. Man often regards chlorophyll, photosynthesising and spore dispersing vegetation as lower organisms, unhindered by any form of conciousness: ripe to be plucked and...
The Cannon film studio, run by Israelian cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, is synonymous with the eighties – a time of superficial excess and bravado, rampant consumerism and neoliberalism. President Ronald Reagan like none other symbolises the political...
By way of a symposium at Cinema Nova and a lecture at Cinema Rits, we want to place the output of Cannon Films in a broader cultural and historical context. Film production during the presidency of Ronald Reagan (“Reaganite Cinema”) saw the end of New Hollywood's...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, self-proclaimed “cineast of the absurd”, tragically passed away in 2014. A compulsive filmmaker who, despite everything seeming to be set up against it, grew out to be one of the most productive Belgian directors ever! Between 1964 and 2014 he...
The closing night of last year's festival was the start of the rescue mission for Brussels former sex cinema: ABC Cinema. In no time, € 60,000 was collected by the Cineact foundation, consisting of members of Offscreen, Cinema Nova and La Retine de Plateau. However,...
For the annual Shortscreen program, Offscreen and online magazine Kortfilm.be selected five new Belgian short films – and one Dutch - that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers!
A nostalgic trip back to the Golden Age of cinema: the Sunday afternoon Matinee, screening for all ages. Welcomed by old school hostesses ans surprised by gimmicks, treat yourself to ice cream and a vintage eighties extravaganza in glorious Technicolor!On Sunday 8...
Every last Friday of the month, Offscreen screens two rarities in Cinematek, uncovered from the darkest recesses of the archive. Two B-to-Z films wih a common theme, presented as a double bill for the price of a single ticket.For the month of March we'll be joining...
A selection of several films can be watched at different locations in our programme "Offscreen - on tour" ! At Liège there's even a mini-festival (see: www.offscreen-liege.be).
