O-FEST is an international festival of experimental art dedicated to practices at the intersection of cinema, video art, performance, new media, and expanded audiovisual forms.
The festival is conceived as a space beyond fixed boundaries, approaching experimentation as a key method for engaging with contemporary visual experience.
Today, the image increasingly tends toward completion, transparency, and predictability — whether in industrial formats or algorithmically generated visual systems. In this context, the festival focuses on practices that move beyond these logics.
At its core are works in which the image remains suspended: not yet fixed within a genre, not yet absorbed into market classification, still carrying the potential to shift from illustration to direct impact.
We are not interested in novelty for its own sake, but in what feels necessary — forms without which it becomes impossible to rethink perception and experience.
We do not select based on medium, budget, or screening history. Only one question matters: can the work produce an autonomous image and shift perception?
O-FEST approaches experimentation as a way of life and artistic practice — a means of redefining the boundaries between art and reality.
