For the Thursday 8–Sunday 11 October concert window, Ghent offers a particularly focused route through music and cinema: three consecutive Videodroom nights at Viernulvier. Each places a visiting artist in front of a film and treats the score as a living part of the screening. The sequence moves from Mary Lattimore’s harp-led reimagining of Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, through Icelandic experimental-pop collective múm accompanying La Vie Rêvée with Hildur Guðnadóttir, to Wolf Eyes confronting Jack Hill’s wild Spider Baby. Film Fest Gent and VIERNULVIER frame Videodroom as a meeting point for cult films and newly composed live soundtracks, which makes this a compact alternative to the usual weekend of separate club bills.[4][5]

The appeal lies in the changing relationship between image and sound. These are three films from three very different corners of cinema, approached by musicians whose working materials range from harp resonance to soft electronics and abrasive noise. Seen as a run, the programme also gives the weekend a useful shape: Thursday’s introspection, Friday’s intimate ensemble colour and Saturday’s unruly horror-comedy charge.[1][2][3][5]

Thursday: Mary Lattimore remaps Old Joy

Mary Lattimore opens the run on Thursday 8 October at 20:00 in the Theaterzaal at De Vooruit, Ghent. The harpist is presenting a new live score for Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt’s 2006 film about two old friends reconnecting on a camping trip. The original soundtrack is by Yo La Tengo; for this screening, Lattimore’s score takes its place. That premise suits the film’s unhurried, reflective tempo: its spaces, pauses and drifting attention leave room for the performer to shape an atmosphere inside the theatre.[1][4]

The official programme describes the score as a one-night musical reimagining, and the screening marks the film’s twentieth anniversary. Lattimore’s place at the beginning of Videodroom is significant for the shape of the whole mini-series: the evening starts from delicacy, close listening and a familiar independent-film world, before the following nights widen the palette. A free Videodroom Talk is scheduled in the foyer at 19:15 for those who want a film-centred introduction before the 20:00 performance.[1][4]

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Friday: múm and Hildur Guðnadóttir enter La Vie Rêvée

Friday 9 October at 20:00 brings múm to the same Theaterzaal for a new score to Mireille Dansereau’s La Vie Rêvée (Dream Life). The 1972 Canadian film follows two young women through a Montréal summer of friendship, work, politics and romantic expectation. Viernulvier presents múm with composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, whose long artistic connection to the group gives this screening a particularly collective musical identity.[2][5]

Múm’s sound has long gathered fragile vocals, acoustic instruments, field recordings and electronic detail into songs and instrumentals with a handmade feel. That texture makes Friday the most openly cinematic musical proposition of the three: a full band language meeting grainy 16mm images and a film built around time, friendship and interior life. The performance is part of the same Film Fest Gent and VIERNULVIER collaboration, while also sitting within the World Soundtrack Awards Film Music Days programme running 8–10 October.[2][5]

Saturday: Wolf Eyes meets Spider Baby

Saturday 10 October at 20:00 takes a hard turn. Wolf Eyes supplies a new score for Spider Baby, Jack Hill’s 1967 horror-comedy, again in the Theaterzaal at De Vooruit, Ghent. Film Fest Gent describes the film as a camp, pitch-black cult item; the pairing with the Michigan duo promises a very different physical experience from the first two nights. Wolf Eyes works across noise, industrial music, free jazz and avant-garde forms, a language well suited to the film’s grotesque family-house atmosphere.[3][5]

This is the bluntest expression of Videodroom’s idea: an unpredictable experimental act placed against an unruly piece of exploitation cinema. The film has circulated under alternate titles including Cannibal Orgy and The Maddest Story Ever Told, clues to its deliberately excessive register. Wolf Eyes’ newly made soundtrack turns Saturday into the loud endpoint of the sequence, with sound acting as pressure, texture and disruption as much as accompaniment.[3][5]

Plan the three-night run

All three concerts begin at 20:00: Mary Lattimore x Old Joy on Thursday 8 October, múm x La Vie Rêvée on Friday 9 October, and Wolf Eyes x Spider Baby on Saturday 10 October. Each takes place at Viernulvier’s Theaterzaal in De Vooruit, Ghent, leaving Sunday 11 October open in the wider weekly window. Tickets and availability can change quickly; recheck the official Viernulvier and Film Fest Gent pages before travelling.[1][2][3][4][5]

Sources

  1. Mary Lattimore x ‘Old Joy’ — Videodroom 2026 — VIERNULVIER
  2. múm x ‘La Vie Rêvée’ — Videodroom 2026 — VIERNULVIER
  3. Wolf Eyes x ‘Spider Baby’ — Videodroom 2026 — VIERNULVIER
  4. VIDEODROOM 2026 opens with Mary Lattimore — Film Fest Gent
  5. Film Music Days programme announced — Film Fest Gent