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FILM

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

Another day of life: a film experience that continues to irritate under the skin long after leaving the movie house.

by Jaïr Tchong
8 March 201930 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM

It remains miraculous how much emotion intelligent animation can generate. In Another day of life (in cinemas from 14 March), the Angolan coverage by legendary Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński is captured in grandly drawn images. Combined with live footage and well-chosen archival material, it delivers an 85-minute hellscape that can be appreciated on several levels. Kapuściński...

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Floating with sea legs through a 600-metre tower: Das Totale Tanz Theater celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus

by Helen Westerik
6 March 201930 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, DANS, FILM, PODIUM ART

Some 400 virtual metres we go up with the dancers. Beforehand, we are warned to look straight ahead if we are afraid of heights. For me, this was unnecessary, I loved flying along in the huge circular space, knowing I was safely ensconced in a chair. Choreography, avatars, architecture and Blixa Bargeld. Those are a few...

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'The wheel of frustration needs to get moving'. Concern over Dutch feature film at Filmmaker Symposium.

by Leo Bankersen
28 February 201919 August 2019
8 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

A survey shows that Dutch filmmakers are very concerned about the production conditions and quality of Dutch feature films. The Filmmakers Initiative wants to spark discussion and propose solutions. A symposium as a kick-off.

IFFR 2019: What I learned about internet memes, and how they infect films.

by Leo Bankersen
29 January 201919 August 2019
6 min read
FILM, INTERNET, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Rabbit Hole is the name of the programme with which the International Film Festival Rotterdam dives into the world of internet memes. With a Meme Café, vlogging Chinese and the dazzling feminist pamphlet Make Me Up.

'Stories are not that fascinating, it's what you see that matters' - Tsai Ming Liang and the art of watching

by Helen Westerik
22 January 201930 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, FILM

Eye film museum kicks off its Virtual Reality season with Tsai Ming Liang's The Deserted. Tsai himself was in the country for a masterclass, introductions and interviews. And although his films suggest otherwise, he is a very animated speaker. In his masterclass, he talked about his career, his collaboration with muse and regular actor Lee Kang-Sheng, and his position...

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Sacha Polak on the battered but strong woman in Dirty God, opening film 48th IFFR. Emotion is the motto this year

by Leo Bankersen
15 January 201929 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

'Feel IFFR' is the motto of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam. The emotion behind the image and with the viewer as a guide for our interpretation. The opening film Dirty God is a nice test case. Director Sacha Polak explains why she wanted to make a film about a scarred woman.

Cinema sector recovers (narrowly), but Dutch film remains problem child (lists!)

by Leo Bankersen
9 January 201930 March 2022
6 min read
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The cinema industry presents its 2018 annual figures. Visits stable at 35.7 million, but Dutch film's market share dropped again, now to 11%. Half of the peak year of 2011.

Netflix brings Roma to cinemas. Is this the end of the 'windows' system?

by Leo Bankersen
6 December 201819 August 2019
8 min read
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The riveting, Golden Lion-winning Roma immerses you in the Mexico of filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón's youth. Are we going to see it on Netflix, or in the cinema? Viewers have a choice that Netflix did not offer in our country before. In addition, the exclusive cinema window is also in flux.

IDFA and education - Crossing the horizon with a documentary, plus a youth Top 15

by Leo Bankersen
23 November 201819 August 2019
8 min read
FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

IDFA 2018 is a great opportunity to take a look at what you can do with documentary in film education. Documentaries can resonate very well with children, is the experience of Meike Statema, head of education at IDFA.

How do you film a hero? A quest in 3 parts.

by Helen Westerik
22 November 201830 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, FILM

How do you make a beautiful and personal documentary about a hero? And what if your hero is a filmmaker and has already made beautiful footage himself? How free can you be with your subject matter? For a long time, my problem with IDFA has been that the documentaries are so well behaved, so focused on the subject and not on the medium itself. In...

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DocLab 2018: improve the world, put on VR glasses.

by Helen Westerik
22 November 201830 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, FILM, MEDIA

Slowly but surely, the very latest in virtual reality (VR) is finished and we can start thinking about what you want to show, rather than how. Whereas at the first VR festival I still got whooping headaches from bad glasses, now I can be mesmerised by the beauty of the Amazon or beautiful animations. Movie theatres like Eye...

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Why The Look of Koolhoven deserves a lot of emulation.

by Wijbrand Schaap
31 October 201830 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM, MEDIA, TELEVISION

In the last century, we had Teleac. Teleac taught me to play chess. Quite extraordinary for television. Perhaps because I have associated television with 'learning' in that way from a young age, I am thrilled with the series made by VPRO with Martin Koolhoven. It is, for the first time in ages, television that stimulates the mind, that makes you think ...

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Lukas Dhont on his acclaimed film Girl, about the trans girl who is an ordinary adolescent, and the love of dance

by Leo Bankersen
30 October 201830 March 2022
9 min read
For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The trans-drama Girl, Belgium's Oscar entry, is on a veritable victory lap. Filmmaker Lukas Dhont on the struggles of trans girl Lara, who is mostly an ordinary adolescent. On his personal struggle with stereotypes, and on his love of dance. "A place on the Oscar shortlist would already be very nice," he says.

AFFR: A true Rotterdam film festival with a mission

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 October 201830 March 2022
9 min read
Architecture, Festival Atlas, FILM

'Architecture has always been seen as an afterthought. I see it as a necessary thing, not an extra. You now see, for instance, that technocrats have taken over power. They come up with a technical solution for everything. They can make buildings that are well insulated, that use geothermal heat: that is now the job of the builders. But all these technocrats forget that it's...

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'Film works wonderfully motivating for children.' Booster for film education - on its way to a permanent place in the classroom

by Leo Bankersen
26 October 201829 March 2022
12 min read
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Until now, film education has mostly been a grab bag of initiatives. But now that the minister mentions it in her policy plan and extra money has been allocated, new steps can be taken. Towards a permanent place in the classroom? We ask Florine Wiebenga, head of education Eye, and Jeroen Stultiens, Film Teacher of the Year.

'Don't put a Dutch celebrity in your film if you don't believe in it yourself' Think tank must save Dutch film

by Leo Bankersen
1 October 201830 March 2022
5 min read
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Dutch film's market share threatens to be dramatically low for 2018. At the NFF conference, Film Distributors Netherlands presents the plan to create a think tank to turn the tide.

Why a code is not going to change anything about unfair practices in the arts

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 September 201814 September 2018
5 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, FILM, MEDIA, PODIUM ART

Dutch youth theatre has been awarded the Prize of the Dutch Critics this year. Quite rightly so. That youth theatre of ours is of superior quality, diverse, dares to tell stories and look outside its own navel. It is more than a pity that, as an adult without a child, you don't come into contact with that theatre so often. Many an adult would fervently...

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Why rain doesn't bother audiences at outdoor cinema Seeing Moon and Stars

by Lies Mensink
14 September 2018
10 min read
Festival Atlas, FILM, SPECIALS

It could be the ideal balmy summer evening: watching a movie under an idyllic starry sky. On the autumnal evening of Friday 6 September, however, open-air cinema Zienemaan en Sterren turns out to be more of an exercise in endurance. It is raining, the temperature is dropping, but the Groningen audience remains undisturbed: kop d'r veur and umbrella open. "Every city had an open-air cinema except Groningen. That...

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Intimate festival Film by the Sea celebrates 20th edition and now needs to rejuvenate, says outgoing director

by Leo Bankersen
11 September 201819 August 2019
12 min read
Festival Atlas, FILM, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Small-scale film festival Film by the Sea specialises in book adaptations. It celebrates its 20th edition with an award for Sophia Loren and a Bergman retrospective. Artistic director feels it is now time for rejuvenation and is handing over the baton.

Float through mazes of graffiti and poetry in award-winning VR installation Chalkroom by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang

by Leo Bankersen
29 August 201829 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, FILM, MEDIA, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Voted best VR experience in Venice, Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang's Chalkroom is now available to experience at Eye. A flying dream in a beautifully designed labyrinth of worlds constructed out of language and characters. Anderson herself is coming too.

Planet Tim Burton lands in Flanders: 'A pressure cooker full of bizarre and disruptive ideas'

by Harri Theirlynck
20 August 201830 March 2022
9 min read
For members only, VISUAL, FILM

The Flemish waffle baker at the Willy Wonka Wafl Factory in the Burton Cafe has seen all the Tim Burton films, he says from between a sleek hipster beard. 'Especially since you had to prepare the menu,' I say. The menu at the - temporary - Burton Cafe in exhibition space C-min includes: Charlie Chocolate Wafl, Scissorhands Wafl, Oompa Loopa Wafl, Beetlejuice...

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Podcast: why Billy Wilder may have been more important than Alfred Hitchcock.

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 July 2018
1 min read
FILM, PODCAST

What does Billy Wilder have to do with Mad Men and Breaking Bad? Or with a football team in a cave? Everything, it turns out. The filmmaker, who died in 2002, appears to be far, far more important to our visual culture than someone like Alfred Hitchcock. At least: it is beginning to look very much like that. Eye, the striking film theatre and museum in Amsterdam, is from now until...

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Major concerns over fate of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov - eight weeks on hunger strike in Russian captivity

by Leo Bankersen
10 July 201829 March 2022
3 min read
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Human rights organisations from around the world and thousands of filmmakers and artists express support for Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years by Russia. This Ukrainian filmmaker has been on hunger strike since 14 May. His life is in serious danger, according to the European Film Academy.

Robby Müller (1940-2018) gave soul to films by the greatest directors

by Leo Bankersen
5 July 201819 August 2019
6 min read
FILM, In Memoriam, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Dutch Director of Photography Robby Müller could paint with light. Averse to rules, he made an important contribution to international cinema. 3 July, he died at the age of 78 in his hometown of Amsterdam.

Film Academy presents 2018 batch. Awards for dance film and intimate father-daughter drama (and honour for first academy student)

by Leo Bankersen
26 June 201819 August 2019
5 min read
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The Film Academy presents the graduation films of the 2018 batch. Feature films and documentaries with many small, personal subjects. Awards for best documentary and feature film, for best screenplay and commercial, and for best film score. Frans Weisz appointed Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau.

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