Experiments @ Ghent International Film Week

Experiments @ Ghent International Film Week

The Ghent International Film Week is a one-of-a-kind film event that brings bold and original cinema to the heart of Ghent. Taking place during Ghent Art Week, it offers a full week of challenging, innovative films from around the world—ranging from underground gems and experimental shorts to striking documentaries and daring feature films.

Formerly known as Obskuur, the festival has always focused on films that push boundaries. We believe cinema should not just entertain, but also provoke, inspire, and spark conversation.

We welcome adventurous viewers looking for something different. If you’re tired of predictable blockbusters and want to discover new voices and fresh perspectives, this is the place to be.

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Experiments @ Ghent International Film Week
  • Frames (Australia) by Claire Marshall

    ‘Frames’ explores the surveillance, scrutiny, and framing of women in a post-feminist context as it works to dismantle or disaggregate the coherent body so that a whole person (a woman) becomes dissected, fragmented into a composite of datasets.
    Running time: 00:12:30

  • Portals (United States) by Kathi Hendrick, Benjamin Henretig, Cornelia Hodges

    PORTALS explores the body, nature, and heart as doorways into deeper dimensions of self and our inherent interrelatedness. Through movement, imagery, and original music, the film enters the liminal space between inner and outer worlds, where the body becomes a threshold into feeling, knowing, int...

  • Threshold (United States) by Jil Guyon

    Threshold centers on an unnamed woman confined to a castle rooftop in southern Portugal. Filmed in black and white with a texture that feels unearthed, the work moves fluidly between temporal registers—past bleeding into present, the real colliding with the imagined, danger shading into performan...

  • Dowsing (United States) by Tim Feeney

    Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland.
    These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near...

  • The Last Day (Italy) by Michael Fantauzzi

    A man who has long withdrawn from the world realizes that no sign of human presence reaches him anymore. He decides to seek the reason for this silence and discovers that the world is now deserted. After wandering for some time through this disorienting landscape, he begins to perceive unexpected...