We welcome French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux at our screening of ‘La vie nouvelle’ (2002, 35mm!) for a discussion. In collaboration with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, where he's staging Richard Wagner's ‘Tristan und Isolde’.

We welcome the British punk author and filmmaker for a performance, film screening and talk. In collaboration with Paard van Troje and Everything UK.

Opening of our new program! A celebration of 100 years of 16mm film in a performance with the film projector facing the audience and in dialogue with improvised, electronic live music!

Cine-concert with Jean Genet's 'Un Chant d'amour' and two recently recovered and restored films by François Reichenbach, 'Nus masculins' and 'Last Spring'.

A rare 16mm copy of one of Ruiz's most singular films, live subtitled in English!

Three films by the Lithuanian filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius, in collaboration with Minima Docta and introduced by Wim Lambrecht

A program around the premiere of ‘Masks’ by Belgian filmmaker Olivier Smolders, followed by a Q&A.

Avant-première of '(...)', the new film of Karina Beumer. In the presence of the artist and in collaboration with Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens and Kunsthal Gent.

OFFoff invites German filmmaker Helena Wittmann to present a carte blanche program around her new film ‘Human Flowers of Flesh’ – screening at Film Fest Gent. She combines some absolute classics from the experimental canon with her own and other newer work. Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

Art Cinema OFFoff couldn't let the death of one of the foremost experimental filmmakers pass just like that. Together with Sphinx Cinema, we bid 'au revoir' to Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022).

Unfortunately, Jack Sargeant can't make it because of a last-minute change in his travel schedule beyond his control. Without his presence and context, we've decided to cancel the screening.

A tribute to the German filmmaker and artist Dore O. (1946-2022) in collaboration with SHHH Festival.

Open-air screening in the garden of a former convent, combining rarely shown short work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul with 16mm films of Phil Solomon.

SERIES FILM & THE OTHER ARTS | Closing event of our spring program with guests of honor Peter Tscherkassky & Eve Heller!

SERIES FILM & THE OTHER ARTS | ‘The Young & the Beautiful’ is a format in which young filmmakers relate to the experimental canon.

SERIES FILM & THE OTHER ARTS | Ghent premiere of the new ‘Ghost Party’ as closing event of three evenings devoted to the films of Manon de Boer on the occasion of her expo at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Followed by a conversation with de Boer.

SERIES FILM & THE OTHER ARTS | Film program on the painterly process

35mm program with the new film of Ted Fendt, three of his shorts and a Q&A

SERIES FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY | An evening with six audiovisual works at the crossroads between film and photography curated by Sofie Crabbé

SERIES FILM & MUSIC | Peter Hutton's silent tour de force with live music by Elisabeth Klinck & Oscar Claus

SERIES FILM & THE OTHER ARTS | Second of three evenings devoted to the films of Manon de Boer on the occasion of her expo at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

SERIES FILM & ARCHITECTURE | A cinematic and architectural exploration of a New York loft and the belvédère of the Boekentoren

SERIES FILM & THE OTHER ARTS | First of three evenings devoted to the films of Manon de Boer on the occasion of her expo at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

SERIES FILM & MUSIC | Restoration of the minimalist road movie of author and critic Chris Petit

SERIES FILM & MUSIC | Restoration of the minimalist road movie of author and critic Chris Petit

This season’s opening film immediately brings the two threads of our new program into focus: nature and the relationship between film & the other arts.

A monumental video installation of a falling man that makes the viewer fall deeper and deeper into its own humanity. 

OFFoff will screen four short films from the political and poetic oeuvre of artist Mona Hatoum.

British writer and artist James Bridle focuses on the discussion about technology, digitization, the nature of intelligence and its consequences for our society.

Floris Vanhoof reveals his own miniature sitcom in OFFoff with two expanded cinema performances.

Surveillance film becomes Direct Cinema becomes Slow Cinema. A city symphony on Wuhan in lockdown.

A program revolving around the practice of ‘commoning’, including a screening of The Last Movie by Dennis Hopper.

In her latest film, Lisa Spilliaert examines the relationship between fiction and reality, between translation and the original.

In her latest film, Lisa Spilliaert examines the relationship between fiction and reality, between translation and the original.

A title that perfectly sums up the unrestrained art of David Wojnarowicz who - some forty years ago - turned the New York Lower East Side upside down.

A title that perfectly sums up the unrestrained art of David Wojnarowicz who - some forty years ago - turned the New York Lower East Side upside down.

Schlingensief’s work shaped the cultural and political discourse in Germany for two decades

Alexander Kluge is one of the founders of the "Neuer Deutscher Film". OFFoff presents his most recent film in collaboration with Filipino filmmaker Khavn.

Young Vagrants is a free stage for anyone who wants to experiment on and around the silver screen. All entries will be shown!

Focus on French director Philippe Garrel with live performances by Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson, Linus Hillborg and Mathieu Serruys.

French filmmaker Chris Marker would have turned 100 on July 29. In honor of this occasion, Art Cinema OFFoff presents an open-air screening of two of his rarely shown films Le Mystère Koumiko and Si j'avais quatre dromadaires in Het Pand.

Art Cinema OFFoff presents an outdoor 16mm screening of several films that explore the theatricality of public space and the choreography and rhythm of the movements within it.

An evening with books, films and talks by Sophie Nys, Tine Guns en Nicolas Provost

A selection of films explores the relationship between what can be said/written and what can be shown/exhibited.

On this online Friday evening organized by Kunsthal Gent, the French artist duo Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion will present the premiere of their new film A Truly Shared Love. this event was postponed from 12 March to 9 April.

Let's celebrate the longest night of the year online with a film marathon from dusk 'till dawn.

The performance of this classic is co-organized by the FilmAtelier of Gezelschap voor Psychoanalyse en Psychotherapie, in which a speaker looks through a psychoanalytic lens at a film that touched him / her.

The German-Norwegian artist Bjørn Melhus works with film, video, installation and photography. In his work he opens a gate to an alternative reality.

The German-Norwegian artist Bjørn Melhus works with film, video, installation and photography. In his work he opens a gate to an alternative reality.

In collaboration with Kunsthal Gent, Ghent University and Art Cinema OFFoff academic, author and feminist activist Silvia Federici chooses to show the documentary film Nightcleaners by The Berwick Street Collective.

In collaboration with Kunsthal, feminist activist, author and professor Silvia Federici, known for her research and activism at the crossroads of women's rights, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles, chose the 1975 film Nightcleaners.

In collaboration with Kunsthal Gent, feminist activist, author and academic Silvia Federici, known for her research and activism at the crossroads of women's rights, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial stuggles, chose the 1975 film Nightcleaners.

French director Damien Manivel, also a dancer and acrobat, honors the world-famous dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan through the eyes of four very diverse female characters.

French director Damien Manivel, also a dancer and acrobat, honors the world-famous dancer and choreographer Isadora Duncan through the eyes of four very diverse female characters.

In collaboration with LUCA School of Arts, OFFoff presents three wonderful essay films that land in fiction from reality, or vice versa.

‘The Young & the Beautiful’ is an ongoing series in which young filmmakers relate to the experimental canon.

Grand exhibition offering visual art from Ghent for sale.

With Les Enfants d’Isadora Damien Manivel won best directing at the filmfestival of Locarno.

The poetic and political oeuvre of Mona Hatoum is presented in a varied and often unconventional set of media.

Fiona Tan explores her own personal vision on how memory and imagination are intertwined in today’s society.

As homage to Gustav Deutsch Jasper Rigole selects Film Ist., a tableau film on the phenomenology of the medium of film.

OFFoff will screen two of Rigole's single screen films made of footage from the IICADOM archive.

A documentary about artist Philip van Isacker, that also goes in search of the essence of sculpture.

Text becomes image, the image becomes body in Nazlı Dinçels hand-made 16mm films.

Jack Sargeant presents Andre Perkowski’s epic adaptation of William Burroughs’ Nova Express.

Thomas Heise explores the conventions of the documentary film in a story of a family and a country.

A multidisciplinary program where art and language meet.

In the program series ‘The Young and the Beautiful’, young filmmakers relate to the experimental canon.

Premiere of the debut film by Alexander Deprez.

Structural Cinema and the way it uses architecture to indicate the stability of the image and the passing of time and light.

James Bennings eerste lange speelfilm '11 x 14' is een mijlpaal in de Amerikaanse avant-garde.

Compilation of animation film followed by a workshop in which we animate images without the use of a camera or computer!

The daring combination of analogue and digital media makes 'Vensters' the first Belgian 'expanded' film.

In the programme series 'The Young & the Beautiful' young filmmakers relate to the experimental canon.

Double bill during Film Fest Gent: Christmas On Earth and Flaming Creatures.

A film by Agnes Martin / A film on Agnes Martin.

‘Organising Bodies’

A Bird among Bears

Alternative and interdisciplinary forms of screening are being sought in Atelier OFFoff – a participatory place for and by starting Flemish filmmakers and audiovisual artists.

The Yugoslavian experimental cinema and the film culture of the amateur.

On the opening night of OFFoff's new cinema in Kunsthal Gent, Teresa Cos and Michael Snow bring the space of the landscape into the cinema space.

Disassemblies 9, a reading group and evening programme, explore Vanessa Agard-Jones’ theory on bodies in systems.

During the grand reopening of Kunsthal, OFFoff presents a programme full of connections between cinema, radio and performance.

During the big reopening of Kunsthal Gent, we present a broadcast around Radio Triton in collaboration with a.pass and Domes FM.

An afternoon of screenings and talkings examining reparative agency or how to cope.

Abigail Child hosts an evening with readings and screenings of her work.

Alex Martinis Roe and Caroline Godart present their research on the organization of feminist collectivity with(in) cinema.

Seven years of experimentation on the Belgian national television: Chantal Akerman, Peter Gidal, Ian Breakwell & Mike Leggett.

In a two-part evening, the history of experimental film in Korea since the 1960s will be shown alongside several contemporary creations from Asia.

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.