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FILM

Moving image. To be seen on TV, in a museum, in a cinema. On an iphone.

Judith Uyterlinde (World Editions) - Animation fits well with the artistic and fictional nature of our novels

by Udo Prinsen
16 July 202129 March 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, ANIMATION, ANIMATION31

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...

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Michiel Peeters (TivoliVredenburg) - We want to make visual art a more prominent part of our programme

by Udo Prinsen
9 July 20212 July 2021
5 min read
ANIMATION, ANIMATION31, BECOME A MEMBER

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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Siety Boerhave - Whether animation can be timeless and live action cannot is an interesting question

by Udo Prinsen
2 July 202129 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, ANIMATION31

Motion design and animation are often used in the visualisation of a leader. Behind the scenes of television programmes, a lot of work goes unseen. We offer an insight into everything that makes a programme. This often starts with an idea that is developed into a concept. Television design Someone who is very good at developing these concepts is Siety

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Between Past and Future. Frank Scheffer films a fruitful meeting between East and West #HF21

by Leo Bankersen
22 June 202130 March 2022
6 min read
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Saturday 26 June at the Holland Festival, a special evening around two music films by Frank Scheffer: the documentary Inner Landscape and the opera film Si Fan. Supplemented by a short live performance by Chinese musician Wu Wei. This will present a musical journey from the seventh-century Tang Dynasty to contemporary electronic music. An evening with unexpected perspectives.

Eye and IFFR celebrate anniversary with Vive le Cinéma - Filmmakers leave the screen

by Leo Bankersen
8 June 20218 June 2021
8 min read
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For the exhibition of the anniversary programme Vive le Cinéma! Art & Film, Eye Filmmuseum and the Rotterdam Film Festival invited five filmmakers to create work for the three-dimensional space. Intriguing installations that play with camera and viewer, image and meaning.

Everyone is welcome to the poems of Babs Gons

by A Quattro Mani
3 June 202129 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, ANIMATION31, LITERARY

The busiest year ever in the career of word artist Babs Gons (49) gets its crowning moment with the publication of her first book of poetry, Do it anyway. A debut that, for Gons herself, feels more like a farewell than a beginning. 'For a performer like me, paper as a form is very definitive.' Erosion and sprawl Do it anyway is called

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Final chapter anniversary edition Rotterdam Film Festival kicks off with The World to Come

by Leo Bankersen
19 May 202130 May 2021
5 min read
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With its closing chapter, the International Film Festival Rotterdam celebrates its 50th anniversary from 2 to 6 June. And the celebration of cinema. At least online. But whether audiences can experience the real festival feeling again in the theatres is far from certain. Opening film is The World to Come.

75 years of Eye, 75 restored classics on the Eye Player. But where is Paul Verhoeven?

by Leo Bankersen
11 May 202111 May 2021
3 min read
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As part of its 75th anniversary, Eye Film Museum is making 75 restored classics available on this year's Eye Player. A fine collection, even if something is sometimes left to be desired.

New resource for home-watching film buffs: Cinéart's Directors' Collection

by Leo Bankersen
5 May 202130 March 2022
3 min read
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Distributor Cinéart, which specialises mainly in European arthouse, presents the Directors' Collection. New and old work by leading film authors.

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Animation & Stephane Kaas: 'I like to give animators a certain freedom.'

by Udo Prinsen
8 February 202130 March 2022
6 min read
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We asked him a few questions about his experiences and influences. What is your experience with animation so far? 'As a child, I liked drawing comics. I made the comic Kaas-Trek with a friend, a kind of persiflage on Star-Trek, and we would sell it to classmates and buy sweets from them. Who framed Roger Rabbit I remember as...

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"The promise of the empty room" is a nice initiative, but ignores the new normal of the culture consumer

by Onno Weggemans
1 February 20211 February 2021
7 min read
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People will not be eager (in large numbers) to go to packed halls again. Many 'old' culture visitors can be considered lost. The cultural sector faces a twofold challenge: to minimise this loss and to look for new audiences even more than usual.

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 - Viewing tips for the 50th edition

by Leo Bankersen
29 January 202129 January 2021
7 min read
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On 1 February, the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam kicks off online. Here are some advance viewing tips.

Breaking: How motherly love is undermining Brabant's subsidy system.

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 January 202130 March 2022
4 min read
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Cinecitta Tilburg gets 280,000 euri a year from the province of Brabant, or rather the founder's mother. Despite there being quite a lot wrong with the application.

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Animation & Martin Koolhoven: 'With animation, I kept thinking: what don't I know? That made me insecure.'

by Udo Prinsen
26 January 202129 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, ANIMATION31, FILM, BECOME A MEMBER

Animation came under accelerated attention as a replacement option for live-action in early 2020 thanks to Covid19 measures. While many film productions came to a standstill, several animation productions continued to work solidly 'just at home' on series, short and longer films. Of course, in the industry, we very much encourage the idea of using animation more, but how simple is it really to just switch...

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War drama 1917 best-attended film in crisis year 2020 More room for independents and Dutch film

by Leo Bankersen
6 January 20216 January 2021
6 min read
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Due to the corona pandemic, 2020 was also a crisis year for the cinema industry. Attendance fell by 56% compared to 2019. But the cancellation of US blockbusters allowed the Dutch market share to rise.

Catharsis under the Christmas tree - the 5 best films to end this terrible year with

by Helen Westerik
21 December 2020
6 min read
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Especially in a bizarre year like this, I need hot films: classics, found footage or children's film, all are allowed. As long as it deals with big emotions or offers the perfect escapism. Like every year, there is plenty to enjoy on TV. Not like every year, there is no option to seek refuge elsewhere, but streaming offers the solution. Five tips to get through Christmas.

When real stars seek relief in lockdown: Star Force makes you happy

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 December 202030 May 2022
2 min read
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These actors sit at their kitchen table and we fly through space with them. Art can be that simple, because we, the viewers, actually make the story.

Culture Council still gives Cinekid green light

by Leo Bankersen
11 December 202030 March 2022
4 min read
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Earlier this year, Cinekid was in danger of dropping out of the basic cultural infrastructure due to a 'no, unless' advice from the Culture Council. An updated application has now changed the Council's mind. If the minister adopts it, Cinekid can go full steam ahead for four years. An interview with Cinekid director Heleen Rouw.

Radiograph of a Family vetted. Five points that make this IDFA winner so special

by Leo Bankersen
27 November 202028 November 2020
4 min read
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In IDFA winner Radiograph of a Family, the Iranian revolution invades the marriage of filmmaker Firouzeh Khosrovani's secular father and her religious mother. What makes this family portrait so special?

Do {not} touch: from calm, dreamy distance to the urge to touch in IDFA's virtual reality

by Helen Westerik
21 November 202030 March 2022
5 min read
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Today opens IDFA's The DocLab, perhaps my favourite part of the festival. With its own competition, commissions and exhibition, this is the realm of digital experimentation.

Harriet Stroet is magisterial opposite 'toadman' Ruut Weissman

by Peter Olsthoorn
20 November 202020 November 2020
4 min read
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Weismann strikes me as too brilliant and intelligent a director to throw himself into an adventure that could break him for good. An alpha male, a big ego, it was well known. And couldn't keep his paws off young women.

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

by Leo Bankersen
18 November 202030 March 2022
11 min read
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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.

Watch tip: When You Hear the Divine Call - How a political subject becomes poetic

by Leo Bankersen
3 November 20203 November 2020
4 min read
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Golden Calf winner Buladó is now our Oscar entry. That will satisfy advocates of more colour in Dutch cinema. And on Sunday, check out Festus Toll's When You Hear the Divine Call, a more modest but equally telling example of new light in Dutch cinema.

Dance film The Garden shows the very bearable lightness of existence

by Ruben Brugman
26 October 202030 March 2022
3 min read
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The Garden is a new dance film by Sem, now also a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, which premiered last week. The choreography is by British dancer Pascal Johnson, with five dancers dancing on the roof of artist Jean Dubuffet's famous artwork Jardin d'émail in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Möller Museum. That in itself is special enough, however, it is the optimism of the dance film that impresses.

Netherlands Film Festival 2020 - Pushing boundaries with Directors' Forum

by Leo Bankersen
24 September 202024 September 2020
7 min read
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The 40th edition of the Netherlands Film Festival pushes the boundaries. Corona makes everything go differently. Now in more than 100 theatres across the country, and also online. For groundbreaking work, there is the sixth instalment of the Directors' Forum.

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