Kaboom Animation Festival - all corners of creative imagination
5 April kicks off the Kaboom Animation Festival. It shows that the animation filmmaker has a kaleidoscopic palette of possibilities.
ANIMATION
Cilia van Dijk (1941-2023), passionate animation producer who had nothing to do with Disney
On 26 April 2023, Cilia van Dijk, independent animation producer and heavily involved in the revival of Dutch animation film from the late 1970s, passed away. In 1986, she was awarded the Oscar for Børge Ring's Anna & Bella, which she produced.
Festival Kaboom opens with animation in the wild
The Kaboom Animation Festival 2023 opened with an audiovisual walk. With two hundred fans past animation films on walls around the city.
Asko | Schönberg performs Small World - Grachtenfestival 13 and 14 August - premiere
Small World is a colourful film symphony about a mouse that moves right through the music. Composer Camiel Jansen wrote the piece especially for Asko|Schönberg and the Grachtenfestival, where it will be premiered. In viewing and listening spectacle Small World, we follow a mouse that moves through the big world and experiences increasingly wild adventures. The music, played live...
An animation summer with unexpectedly rich harvest - what makes this genre so versatile?
Seven new, very different animated films coming to cinemas this summer showcase the richness and power of this genre.
Ari Folman on Kaboom opening Where is Anne Frank - ode to Anne's imagination
Ari Folman's (Walz With Bashir) new animated film Where is Anne Frank is the opening film of the Kaboom animation festival. Folman explains how it definitely had to be a film for young audiences, why it features an escaped girl from Africa, and why the concentration camp resembles the underworld from Greek mythology.
Judith Uyterlinde (World Editions) - Animation fits well with the artistic and fictional nature of our novels
As in the animation sector, the book trade is hugely diverse. Within the Netherlands, around 4,500(!) publishing houses operate. From cooking and baking to self-help, from fact to fiction, an awful lot is written and published in the Netherlands. But there is also a publisher, World Editions, which does operate from the Netherlands, but focuses on the English market. They translate existing...
Michiel Peeters (TivoliVredenburg) - We want to make visual art a more prominent part of our programme
Public space is dressed up with visualisation, music video and art in many places, including TivoliVredenburg. Either via projection mapping on buildings during events, or via LED panels in shop windows and abris, but also as digital art during performances and lobbies in theatres. In TivoliVredenburg, in the heart of Utrecht, they even create separate events for it. Canvas is a programme that...
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