Offscreen film festival 2017 | Offscreen
The Offscreenings program presents a fine selection of special, new and unreleased films, giving a platform to movies at the cutting edge of contemporary cinema. These films are noted for their artistic originality, unique vision and inventive approach to the medium...
Festival Guest: Stephen Sayadian (aka Rinse Dream, °1953) is a native Austrian but moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s. After a career as the creative director of the erotic magazine Hustler, he made his first feature film in 1981 at the...
Once upon a time... there was a country that ceased to exist after a Velvet Revolution, a tiny country of two nations brought together in a socialist utopia, a country with a tradition in film adaptations of folk stories, legends and fairy tales. Initially in the work...
Festival guest: In dire need of reevaluation are the fantasy-filled gems of the Slovakian Juraj Herz (°1934), a contemporary of Jan Švankmajer, Věra Chytilová and Miloš Forman. In 1969, Herz went down in film history with the compelling “The...
Festival guest: Czech stop motion film maker Jiří Barta (°1948) has grown to become one of the leading figures in animation since his start in 1978. Inspired by a range of different artists like Gaudí, Kafka, Poe, Fritz Lang, the...
Only two years after the 'Summer of Love' of 1967, the American dream turns into a nightmare. While the streets are filled with racial riots, the war in Vietnam intensifies despite the efforts of the protest movement. The hippie ideals of Woodstock are irrevocably...
Despite the recent success of “The Raid”, Indonesian action cinema at large remains relatively unknown to Western audiences. Film production grew enormously since the 1970s, when due to a government imposed quota system, one local film had to be shown for every...
Polish-born Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006) was an exemplary case of that enviable sort of artist: the all-around and multi-talented uomo universale. Starting off his career as a designer for film posters with a background in the Fine Arts (more specifically painting),...
Priestess of the post-psychedelic revival, Brussels artist Shazzula, worked with prestigious names like Electric Wizard but also with the generation of 1969, in her work for a film by Bobby Beausoleil. As a visual artist, film maker and musician, Shazzula will perform...
A flashback to 1969 in a wild night filled with bikers, satanism and psychedelica. Featuring: two feature films, short films, clips, DJ sets and an actual Black Mass. The evening will be hosted by American cult film specialist Jack Stevenson.The Apocalypse 69 night...
For our annual focus on Belgian cult and exploitation films we head to West Flanders. “Rabid Grannies” is the work of director Emmanuel Kervyn and producer Johan Vandewoestijne (aka James Desert of “Lucker”), both from Courtrai. Thanks to a production deal that fell...
Let the sunshine in and let your hair hang down! The matinee screening for all ages offers a nostalgic trip back in time, with ice cream, cartoons and a memorable ode to the hippie spirit of the sixties as its feature film. In collaboration with La Rétine de...
For the annual Shortscreen program, Offscreen and website Kortfilm.be present a selection of recent Belgian short films that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers! In collaboration...
A selection of short films for children from 5 years and up. The city… a whirling playground filled with action and characters of all sorts. A place where everyone lives in their own way. Eight short films share their views on the city: a cat that contemplates...
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 with a common theme, presented as a double bill for the price of a single ticket. Like every year, the B-to-Z of March...
Special edition of the Microboutiek: Fanzines on genre cinemaThe Microboutiek is a distribution stand for books, CDs, fanzines, comics, DVDs, cassettes and other self-published and small-scale productions. Rich in its selection of curiosities, the Microboutiek is to be...
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).
