Saturday, September 19, the festive Off Screen GRAW Open-Air Cinema event will take place in the garden of B.A.D. at Talingstraat 5, featuring a selection of short films by Piet Zwart Lens-Based Media alumni curated by Ine Lamers.
Films by Aitana Lopez Rodrigo, Arabella Turner, Jingfeng Shen, Rodolfo Ferro, Rossella Nisio, Tessa Langeveld, and Veere Van Gent.
Aitana Lopez Rodrigo – An Invitation to Reading (2023) 03’41’’
The film is part of the research Vocal Letters, focused on enhancing and valuing collective knowledge through everyday technologies. An Invitation to Reading is the first letter in this series, inspired by a message from Isa, one of the filmmaker’s closest friend. In her message, Isa recounts her experience reading a novel with her sister, highlighting the connection she felt between creation and pleasure.
Veere Van Gent – Oorsprong (2021) 04’12’’
Oorsprong is a video essay in which the creator explores her family’s aesthetic values. Through a seemingly simple dilemma – whether or not to pierce ears – and a series of personal objects, a portrait unfolds of the myth-making that characterizes every family.
Rodolfo Ferro – Your Presence Was Cancelled (2024) 3’52”
A selfie becomes a threshold – as the camera scans its surface, a hidden and personal story unfolds, questioning who sees, who owns, and who is missing.
Rossella Nisio – Views from Pasternak Street (2025) 16’55” EP 01 – 04, 05 – 07
Across continents and cityscapes, this series of miniature essays follows streets named after the poet and novelist Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), exploring how memory, place, and language intersect in the overlooked corners of modern life. Each episode walks the hypothetical armchair traveller a few blocks to uncover unexpected resonances between past and present, poetry and architecture, the public map and private experience.
Arabella Turner – Will You Meet Me Here? (2023) 4’59”
A short film reflecting on the historical use of caves and holes – as hidden spaces for smuggling, shelter, and secrecy – spanning from 18th-century contraband routes to the digital tunnels of ‘Zero-Days’. In Will You Meet Me Here?, this layered history collapses into four minutes, unfolding as an imagined exchange between a cave and a smuggler/hacker.
Aitana Lopez Rodrigo – A Piece of Paper (2025) 9’16”
A handheld camera, a document, a meeting point. Three moments trace the before, during, and after of a job dismissal. A Piece of Paper unfolds a choreography of voices – both real and AI-generated – to explore the fissures between the bureaucratic and the human. The film uses minimal resources to open a timely and urgent field of discussion. It invites us to question the dynamics of authority and vulnerability’ and reconsider our relationship with the languages of power.
Jingfeng Shen – Copper Dream (2024) 4’03”
Through a letter recounting a dream, the filmmaker wove together his experience of relocating to a new environment with his father’s memories of childhood. The narrative that spans time, space, and a private bond, aims to uncover a hidden corner of the violent conflict that took place in the filmmaker’s hometown during the social upheaval of the 1960s and the lingering effects it continues to exert on members of the next generation who did not witness it firsthand.
Tessa Langeveld – a nightpiece for those who feel or felt like they were falling (2025) 4’39”
A piece of paper falls three times to an increasingly slowed version of a Chopin nocturne.
Filmmakers will be in attendance; admission is free. Doors open at 8:00 p.m., screening starts at 8:30 p.m.
Drinks will be served before and after the screening, along with a bonfire and music.
Everybody is welcome!