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3 jaar sinds de grootschalige Russische invasie van Oekraïne: Twee speciale filmvertoningen in Amsterdam

Op 24 februari 2025 is het drie jaar geleden dat Rusland Oekraïne grootschalig aanviel. Niet alleen het land werd aangevallen, vanaf het begin was duidelijk dat Rusland ook en juist de cultuur van Oekraïne aanviel. De recente geopolitieke ontwikkelingen brengen Oekraine grote onzekerheid, met mogelijk dramatische gevolgen.   Met twee speciale filmvertoningen staan DutchCulture, de European Cultural Foundation en het International… 

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De tafel in Turbulence Jamais Vu. Foto door Leo Bankersen

IDFA 2023 - DocLab and the shadow worlds

Wordt iets beter als het schuurt? Kunst als slijpsteen van de geest? Het aloude begrip dialectiek, de botsing van tegenstellingen waaruit iets nieuws ontstaat? Deze 17e editie van IDFA’s DocLab, het programma vol digitale kunst, interactief werk en virtuele werelden, heeft als thema ‘Phenomenal Friction’. Technologie is veelal gericht op efficiëntie en gemak, maar DocLab nodigt ons uit om te… 

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Theaterplatz Weimar with Günther Ücker's Steinmal, where the AfD holds fascist rallies on Mondays.

Journal Kunstfest Weimar #3: When remembering becomes a problem.

Water is very good at covering things up. Sixty kilometres south of Weimar is a huge reservoir, about which the locals know little more than that the hydroelectric plant supplies power to houses and the steelworks, a few kilometres away. At least one village has also disappeared, and artist cum experimental radio maker Sandra Rücker found out that her... 

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Yves Degryse by Koen Broos

Yves Degryse (Berlin) on the return of the legendary show 'Zvizdal' at #Theaterfestival Boulevard: "This really took me by my jacket"

Yves Degryse is one of the people behind the extraordinary Flemish company Berlin. Between 2011 and 2015, Berlin worked on the performance Zvizdal, largely shot in the 'forbidden zone' around the exploded Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. I saw the performance in 2016 in Den Bosch, during Festival Boulevard, and was 'blown away'. This year, it returns to Boulevard 

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Still from the documentary White Balls on Walls by Sarah Vos

White Balls on Walls: fascinating image of a museum in panic

There is quite a stir among mostly people of certain (white) colour and age about a documentary now playing in movie houses. In White Balls on Walls, maker Sarah Vos shows how the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has to get used to a new era in which old self-evidences are shaking to their foundations. The uproar revolves mainly around the artworks created by established... 

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How I almost fell off my bike because of a VR documentary #IDFA Doclab

IDFA DocLab has returned home to the Brakke Grond, and how! More than thirty-five works explore the boundaries of documentary in content and form. DocLab is the digital playground where anything is technically and conceptually possible now. So I watched a work with scent, danced in the 80s and got so relaxed I almost... 

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Master Talk with IDFA guest Laura Poitras: why her work can be an inspiration to today's activists.

Aansluitend aan de vertoning van haar in Venetië met de Gouden Leeuw bekroonde All the Beauty and the Bloodshed had de betrokken en kritische documentairemaker Laura Poitras in Carré een goed gesprek met IDFA’s artistiek directeur Orwa Nyrabia. Over haar ontdekking van de documentairewereld, haar verontwaardiging over Amerikaanse politiek en hoe ze ook hoop leerde zien.

For God's sake, keep an open mind! Rolf Orthel on Making is Most Beautiful

Making is most beautiful, Rolf Orthel's latest film, is an ode to making and its makers. Why does the process of making fascinate? What is creativity or artistry? We meet at bodega Keijzer in Amsterdam, where the waiter knows his coffee preference. We talk about film, parents, getting older, primary school, forests, taking detours to see new things. If... 

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Door Altamira 2042 besef je hoe machteloos we staan tegen de waanzin van de vooruitgang. #whereisdomphillips #whereisbrunopereira #hf22

Hoe speel je een regenwoud? Ik heb me ooit laten vertellen dat het regenwoud vooral snachts oorverdovend lawaai maakt. Op 7 juni kreeg ik dat ook te horen in de installatie Altamira 2042, dankzij het Holland Festival. De Braziliaanse kunstenaar, annex documentairemaakster Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha wist in die voorstelling het geluid van de tropen voelbaar te maken. In een… 

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Visually strong documentary on Colombia at Concordia 

Maandag 21 februari om 19:30 vertoont Concordia eenmalig de film ‘Colombia in My Arms’, over het Colombia na de vredesovereenkomst tussen de regering en de FARC-guerrilla’s. Overleeft de fragiele vrede het wantrouwen en de rancune opgebouwd door decennia van oorlog? Met verkiezingen in aantocht, hopen sommige politici te profiteren van het nog verder opstoken van de spanningen. Voorafgaand en na… 

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Museum of Austerity shows the bitter face of austerity cuts

Whenever a technology is presented that I am not yet familiar with, I like to explore. A museum with holographic glasses? Do it! However, it turned out to be the content that will stay with me for a long time. The Museum of Austerity by Sarah Wares and John Pring is no easy read. But essential for understanding the impact of austerity on disabled people... 

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Symbiosis, or how I wanted to become a butterfly - Symbiosis VR by Polymorph at the IDFA DocLab

DocLab has been the most exciting part of IDFA for 15 years. This is the place for experimentation in form, technology and content; pushing and stretching the boundaries of the medium. I like to plunge in, sometimes with skin and hair. The VR installation Symbiosis gives that opportunity quite literally. You get to enter a post-apocalyptic world, where people are forced to make connections... 

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Renzo Martens on White Cube: 'From now on, the Stedelijk should devote its entire acquisitions budget to art by plantation workers.'

A sleek, snow-white art temple in the middle of the Congolese interior. What does that mean? Renzo Martens talks about his new documentary White Cube, and the art project that allows plantation workers to buy back their land. Premiering at IDFA and in Lusanga, Congo.

Traveling While Black grabs you by the throat

Traveling While Black touches you deeply and that is exactly the intention. The 20-minute or so Virtual reality film immerses you in the history of institutional racism in the US and especially what it does to people. The location is Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington DC*. We sit at a table in a classic diner with people... 

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