O-FEST exists independently — without state support, sponsor compromises, or format concerns. This is a matter of principle, not a limitation: the right to shape the programme on artistic logic alone.
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.
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?
«A film does not end with the credits — it continues to operate within the person who has experienced it.
O-FEST
Works are grouped by internal resonance, not genre labels. The festival rejects rigid categorisation in favour of a fluid structure.
One submission — all sections. No paid categories. No premiere requirements. Access to experimental art shouldn't be a privilege.
Stanislavsky Electrotheatre + urban locations. The screening space is an active part of the artistic statement, not a neutral backdrop.
The new does not always coincide with the present moment. Some forms move ahead, others return and begin to act again.
"Necessary New" refers to those images and artistic gestures without which it becomes impossible to move forward. They emerge across different points in time — today, yesterday, decades ago — and continue to resonate because they open new possibilities within the image.
The programme is conceived as a meeting ground for these works — outside linear time and beyond rigid historical frameworks.