ONTroerd kortfilmavond #3

In November, Sereni and ONTroerd, in collaboration with Kortfilm.be, are organizing a series of (short) film screenings on loss and mourning—selected by various guest curators.

On Wednesday November 9th, the final short film screening will take place at Kunstencentrum BUDA in Courtrai, where Barbara Raes will take on the role of guest curator.

Her programme will shine a light on hidden grief, which lacks general attention because there is not enough social support. The rituals that follow such a loss expose challenges for our future.

Barbara Raes explores new mental and physical spaces for farewell rituals. In 2016, she founded Beyond The Spoken, a space for unrecognized loss where she creates farewell rituals for life's big and small tipping moments. By their artistic perspectiven, these rituals are distinguished from existing more traditional rituals. In 2018, she was guest curator of Theater Aan Zee for which she developed the mourning ritual Zon dag kind, and in 2019 she co-curated the program Amen & Beyond with Colin Van Eeckhout (Amenra) at Kunstencentrum Vooruit. Barbara Raes organized U.Loss, a program on rituals, death and loss in Berlin (HAU), Amsterdam (DAS), Antwerp (deSingel) and Brussels (Kaaitheater).

On November 7th, the first short film screening will take place in Brussels, curated by Maaike Neuville, and followed by the second screening the day after, on November 8th at De Cinema in Antwerp, curated by Sachli Gholamalizad.