Skatepark Screening

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OFFoff x Lochness:
Skatepark Screening

Lochness – a collective and artist run space from Ghent – transformed the Oud Huis of Kunsthal into a modular skatepark, which they’ve been using for the past three months as a platform for an interdisciplinary program. At the finissage, OFFoff and Lochness will screen a skate film program inside the skatepark.

Since the 1960s, the skate scene developed its own iconic visual culture. Affordable video cameras became regular travel companions on skate trips across the States. Parking lots, abandoned industrial estates and drained swimming pools became the backdrop for numerous films, accompanied by heavy guitars and screaming chants. Long before YouTube or Instagram saw life, videotapes of early skate stars circulated from living room to living room. Even today, film and video are an integral part of the scene. The legendary Sony VX1000 DV camera still spins mad hours at obscure places and times, faithfully accompanied by the ever-young skate talent wishing to immortalize themselves on the web.

This evening focuses not so much on the “classic skate film” – a genre in itself – but on films on the edge between experimental cinema and skate film.

Program: Ans Mertens
In the presence of Ans Mertens, Miguel Faro & Abel Kleinblatt

The day after the screening, the exhibition ‘NBD – een kijk in de Kempense skatecultuur’ opens at De Warande in Turnhout, where artist and filmmaker Ans Mertens will also be showing her new film installation Reel Real Double Time as a side program until Sunday, July 23.

Programma

Claude Jutra - The Devil's Toy
This short 1966 documentary dedicated “to all victims of intolerance” depicts the dawn of skateboarding in Montreal. A new activity frowned upon by police and adults, skateboarding gave youngsters a thrilling sensation of speed and freedom. This film – the first Canadian documentary ever made about the sport – captures the exuberance of boys and girls having the time of their lives in free-wheeling downhill locomotion.

Sarah Vanagt - Little Figures
Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Filipino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy. Three statues, three children; an imaginary conversation.

Abel Kleinblatt - SIDEWALKS (a series on form and function)
A visual essay exploring the use of public space.

Miguel Faro - Downhill
Journey to the other side of the mirror, in Lisbon – skate and its culture bring with them a technology of vision that coordinates movement, body, point of view and space in a specific way. The city is drawn in the pleasure of the bodies moving through it.

Arthur Le Duc - Let's Go
As a skater and filmmaker, Arthur Le Duc (aka Feeelsgood) documents his friends on their skate missions in town. For this screening, he dived into his archive and used footage from Ans Mertens to edit this brand-new skate clip.

Claude Jutra - The Devil's Toy
CA • 1969 • 15' • b/w • digital

Sarah Vanagt - Little Figures
BE • 2003 • 15' • color & z/w • digital

Abel Kleinblatt - SIDEWALKS (a series on form and function)
BE • 2022 • 13' • color • digital

Miguel Faro - Downhill
PT • 2016 • 17' • color • digital

Arthur Le Duc - Let's Go
BE • 2023 • 3' • color • digital

23.06.2023 20:00

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