Developed collaboratively by Morpho and Out of Sight, 'Cinema Sessions' unfolds as a series of expanded film screenings hosted at Out of Sight. The programme is shaped by both organisations: Morpho through its residency programme, and Out of Sight through its Public Programme in collaboration with participating artists and in dialogue with the Study Circle. Together, they create a space where moving image intersects with artistic research, collective reflection, and shared experience.
Film plays a crucial role in shaping how we perceive and interpret the world. As a medium, it blurs the boundaries between art and life, offering visual strategies to reclaim lived experience from forces that tend to simplify, commodify, or neutralise it. Watching films together in a cinema setting reinforces the collective dimension of spectatorship, transforming viewing into a shared civic act that resonates with the rhythms and tensions of everyday life.
This fourth edition, 'Cinema Session: MESSIDOR', is conceived as a parallel programme to the exhibition 'The Pathway of Air' at Out of Sight, opening on Thursday, 14 May 2026 at 19:00, during the Antwerp Art Weekend.
Founded in 2015 by artists Meggy Rustamova, Pieter Geenen, Eitan Efrat and Sirah Foighel Brutmann, MESSIDOR emerged as a platform to reflect on and experiment with the possibilities of collective practice within the contemporary artistic landscape in Belgium and beyond. The collective was conceived as a space for dialogue: a way to question authorship, exchange methodologies, share infrastructure, and explore how artistic practices can intersect while maintaining their individual trajectories.
Cinema Session: MESSIDOR / screening & artist talk
Saturday, 30 May 2026, at 19:00 at Out of Sight
'(dis)Location' by Meggy Rustamova (2013/2023, 11'45")
'Atlantis' by Pieter Geenen (2008, 11')
'Is it a knife because…' by Eitan Efrat & Sirah Foighel Brutmann (2022, 25'46")
:: Supported by Flanders – State of the Art / Department of Culture, Youth and Media, part of the 'Close Encounters' project
Artists: Meggy Rustamova, Pieter Geenen, Eitan Efrat and Sirah Foighel Brutmann
