Bewegend beeld. Te zien op tv, in een museum, in een bioscoop. Op een iphone.
Veel afstudeerwerk van de Filmacademie is geïnspireerd door persoonlijke ervaringen. Veel studenten van de Gerrit Rietveld Academie afdeling film, die ook hun eindwerk presenteren, zoeken het in de persoonlijke vrijheid van expressie.
The Ecstatic Truth, the new exhibition at Eye film museum about German filmmaker Werner Herzog, is as unapproachable as the man himself. In the huge space ( the room is about 700m2), there are large screens set up, and a few tables with objects. It is dark. Hardly any props, no costumes, nothing to distract from the man and his work. Uncompromising, and...
The dome of Artis Planetarium is made for stars; it is not a shiny Imax canvas. That the images in Coral: Rekindling Venus by Lynette Wallworth therefore do not splash off the screen is to be expected. Wallworth, a close friend and colleague of ANOHNI, is prominent at this year's Holland Festival and made Coral, Rekindling Venus exclusively...
Earlier this year, business director Marjan van der Haar announced her departure from IFFR. It was announced yesterday that Clare Stewart will be her successor next week. Stewart has earned her spurs at numerous leading festivals, including the BFI London film festival and BFI Flare London, the British Film Institute's LGBTQIA festival; the Sheffield documentary festival...
What if 200 of the greatest thinkers and poets this planet has known in recent centuries were just one of us? An ordinary stranger on a bus, or your taxi driver, or a skater? Or a singing tiger in a supermarket? Julian Rosefeldt makes that thought audible, tactile and almost tangible in the mega-installation 'Euphoria' at the...
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.
Sometimes a festival only really begins after the halls have emptied. Red threads become visible, themes buzz after, research continues, archives are unlocked. What struck me about the nineteenth, somewhat smaller edition of Cinedans is that there was a lot of work on the vulnerability of the body. Not surprising after a pandemic, during a war and with an even more...
The Kaboom Animation Festival 2023 opened with an audiovisual walk. With two hundred fans past animation films on walls around the city.
With Kaboom!, Movies that matter, the Pink Film Days and Cinedans all four at the same time, it will be hard to choose next weekend. Cinedans, dance on screen, is a festival very dear to my heart, which is where I will be found next weekend. Cinema is, after all, movement, in montage, découpage, action, mise en place. And slowly the realisation that dance and film are a...
Afgelopen mei uitte ik mijn zorgen over de herstructurering bij het IFFR en vroeg ik me af of het festival zo eigenzinnig zou blijven als het altijd was. Het ontslag van een aantal programmeurs en het vertrek van andere medewerkers legde van tevoren een grauwsluier over de afgelopen editie. Was dat terecht? Heeft het festival zijn glans verloren? Of lukte…
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...
Het originele en geëngageerde Iraanse drama No Bears beleeft zijn Nederlandse première, terwijl de regisseur zojuist weer is vrijgelaten. Jafar Panahi blijft filmen tegen de verdrukking in.
IFFR 2023 is not only a platform for filmmakers with their own voice, but also makes cross-connections with other arts. What else can cinema be?
The 52nd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam kicks off on 25 January. Four questions to the artistic director on the course set.
Tijdens de Nieuwjaarsreceptie heeft de Nederlandse bioscoopbranche de resultaten van 2022 bekend gemaakt. Stevig herstel, maar we zijn nog niet helemaal terug. Top Gun: Maverick is de beste bezochte titel, Soof 3 scoort het hoogst bij de Nederlandse films.
This 19th edition of the festival is the short three-day Practice & Potential edition of the Cinedans festival and focuses on the development of the dance film genre. For three days, Cinedans presents, the state of the art of Dutch dance film, the International Student Film Competition, special themed programmes and special documentaries. New Dutch Shorts A wide selection of...
Van 16 t/m 18 december presenteert Cinedans WEB Special: Inevitable Dances. Het programma is online te zien op Cinedans WEB en bestaat uit de documentaire When Arabs Danced van regisseur Jawad Rhalib en vier dans shorts van makers uit Iran, Libanon en Egypte. Het programma wordt gratis aangeboden op https://cinedans.nl/inevitable-dances/ Een donatie wordt gewaardeerd en komt geheel ten goede aan filmmakers in nood. Met…
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...
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.
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...
Patronisation! Woke terror! These were some of the reactions from the film world when there were calls for the appointment of an intimacy coordinator at Dutch film productions. As if anyone could allow or display sexually transgressive behaviour in a studio with 40 other staff around it. Impossible! Yesterday, the book Wat de Fak! by award-winning actress Maryam Hassouni was published and in it, it states...
Op 9 november gaat de 35ste editie van het documentairefestival IDFA van start. Over de filmselectie merkte hij op dat het ‘not only a judgement, but also a statement’ is. In dit interview vertelt hij over de keus voor filmmaker-activist Laura Poitras als eregast, en veel meer.
Mountains and Molehills is the name of the exhibition EYE has dedicated to Fiona Tan. A video artist who often works with archive footage. From EYE's image bank came the raw material for Footsteps: a personal document and also a look back at the Netherlands as we rarely see it.
Op de Nederlands Film Festival Conferentie kwam ook het thema diversiteit aan bod. Hoe maken we de Nederlandse film echt voor iedereen? Een pasklaar antwoord is er niet. Wel de aansporing om het telkens weer aan de orde te stellen. Spreek je uit!
Zeldzame hervertoning van Olow Seunke’s hooggeprezen debuut ‘De smaak van water’ ter gelegenheid van 40 jaar Kring van Nederlandse Filmjournalisten. Gerard Thoolen en Dorijn Curvers zijn adembenemend als de cynische ambtenaar en het meisje in de kast. Alsof Seunke de problemen in de jeugdzorg had voorzien.
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