With much fanfare, Netflix's The Witcher was announced. Except for some comments about Superman in a white wig, there was and is a lot of interest in the film adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy book series. Successor to Game of Thrones. With the way that one ended? No thanks! I'm not familiar with the books or the games myself, but Netflix's description...
At a time when comic book movies, superheroes and alternative dystopian realities reign supreme, I feared the worst when HBO announced Damon Lindelof's Watchmen. Not having extensive knowledge of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book Watchmen myself, I found the 2009 film a disappointment. Lindelof is the man behind the infamous series Lost. Where with Lost, the viewer...
Virtual Reality neemt een nieuwe vlucht. Op vrijdag 11 oktober om 15:00 uur kun je de wereldpremière meemaken van het ijzingwekkende Walking through the Walls, een totaal onderdompelend werk gemaakt voor de Oculus Go en MEZE AUDIO koptelefoon, samen de meest complete draagbare VR set die er bestaat. Het gebeuren vindt plaats bij Mediamatic in Amsterdam, in samenwerking met Stichting…
Last Wednesday, 2 October, at the annual congress of the Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en Festivals in Tivoli/Vredenburg, I saw an interesting presentation by Jonas Kiesekoms, research coordinator at PXL-Music in Hasselt, Belgium, and musician. The question is now classic: can a robot replace the music programmer? With his research group, Kiesekoms is working on several applications that use data science to improve ticket sales for concerts,...
Janine Abbring has managed to pull the somewhat ramshackle institution Zomergasten out of the doldrums. She has fun, is excellently prepared, is genuinely interested in her guests and has managed to push the eternal battle element into the background without making the broadcasts less exciting. That battle element was always: does the interviewer succeed in 'breaking' the guest? Because.
It is actually a footnote in the press release that lobby organisation Kunsten '92 sent out into the world today. But, as always with footnotes, it did contain the most important news. Because Kunsten 92, the club in which organisations in the arts sector polder, is "exploring cooperation" with the Creative Industry Federation. The latter is the Arts '92 of everything that is also culture and creativity,...
Deadwood was one of the best television series ever. Despite its many awards, HBO pulled the plug after only three seasons. After the abrupt stop, HBO promised to end Deadwood in an appropriate way through two TV movies. However, despite fan requests and actor insistence, the promises never materialised. Until...
On 26 April 1986, an explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. To this day, it is one of the most catastrophic disasters caused by man. The effects of the nuclear disaster are felt even today. For many, Chernobyl represents a long-forgotten memory. Places with a macabre history have always drawn people and...
My generation probably immediately gets the famous Doe Maar song in its head at the obituary of Doris Day. There is no ball on TV, only a film with Doris Day. And you really didn't want that, your mother's goody-goody heroine. The wholesome star with whom you think of a glass of milk rather than wild...
Anne Lister. This 19th-century lady was a pioneer in many fields: she climbed mountains, travelled far away on her own and was successful in business. However, she gained fame mainly through her private life. Anne Lister has been called Britain's first modern lesbian. During her lifetime, she kept several diaries, in which she recorded her erotic escapades with ladies in...
The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren promotes cultural and social cooperation and exchange between Flanders and the Netherlands by presenting, producing, inspiring and connecting. Spearheads of deBuren are Flemish-Dutch cooperation, talent development and diversity. As a house of culture and debate, we offer an extensive programme with 150 public activities a year and various cultural productions and projects. deBuren covers many...
There I stood. Next to THE RED LOPER. In THE PRESS box. Everything you must have done once in your life and this was MY MOMENT. THE BOOKBALL at THE CITY BURY which was renamed ITA because of the boss' career. To my left TEAM VOLKSKRANT, to my right a cute KRULLENBOL from the LINDA and in between them a journalist....
It was just missing the heavy music and gothic storm images in the Game of Thrones trailer whose lyrics Thierry Baudet uttered on the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 March 2019. 'And so here we stand, at the eleventh hour, among the debris of what was once the greatest and most beautiful civilisation the world has known. A...
'The first Dutch WhatsApp thriller' was launched at the end of January. For five days, a select group of screen readers could follow this 'real time' story. Writers Jowi Schmitz and Louis Stiller were among them, app'ing with each other about this new form of storytelling. Sunday Louis > Suddenly a whole pile of names in my whatsapp (including 'paps' and 'mums'). Jowi > I give them...
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.
Het eerste seizoen van True Detective uit 2014 was een enorm succes. Een Southern moordmysterie met een occult tintje. Naast de ‘wie heeft het gedaan’ verhaallijn gaat het seizoen vooral ook over de gecompliceerde karakters van Martin Hart en Rust Cole (overtuigend gespeeld door Woody Harrelson en Matthew McConaughey). Er was een rauwe en voelbare chemie tussen de twee. De…
Langzaam maar zeker is het allernieuwste nieuwtje van virtual reality (VR) af en kunnen we gaan nadenken over wat je wilt laten zien, in plaats van hoe. Waar ik op het eerste VR festival nog gierende hoofdpijn kreeg van slechte brillen, kan ik me nu laten betoveren door de schoonheid van het Amazone gebied of prachtige animaties. Filmtheaters als Eye…
DocLab 2018 is no longer about the latest technology, but about the human experience. What menu can artists serve us with digital media and artificial intelligence. Examination of reality, playful installations, the Humanoid Cookbook and collaboration with MIT
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 ...
"Don't let Netflix tell you what to think". The Netflix documentary Making a Murderer caused a huge stir in the United States and the rest of the world in 2016. Society was divided into two camps: those who believed Steven Avery was guilty and those who believed he was once again innocent in jail....
De kans dat je in een museum geholpen wordt door iemand die daar onbetaald, puur voor haar lol staat, is de afgelopen jaren aanzienlijk gestegen. Dit geldt vooral voor museumwinkels, museumcafés en garderobes, kortom, alles wat met commerciële activiteiten en bedrijfsvoering te maken heeft. Dit blijkt uit een nader onderzoek van de tamelijk juichende cijfers over 2017, die de Museumvereniging…
Het Nederlandse jeugdtheater is dit jaar bekroond met de Prijs van de Nederlandse Critici. Volkomen terecht. Dat jeugdtheater van ons is van superieure kwaliteit, divers, durft verhalen te vertellen en buiten de eigen navel te kijken. Het is meer dan jammer dat je als volwassene zonder kind niet zo vaak met dat theater in aanraking komt. Menig volwassene zou fervent…
Mugmetdegoudentand is a quirky Amsterdam-based theatre company that has been making successful theatre and occasional television for more than 30 years. The group creates new Dutch repertoire that describes the spirit of the times with a personal voice. De Mug produces plm 4 performances a year, including an ambitious European project in 2020. De Mug is subsidised for several years (planning period until 2021) by the municipality of Amsterdam....
Voted best VR experience in Venice, Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang's Chalkroom can now be experienced at Eye. A flying dream in a beautifully designed labyrinth of worlds constructed out of language and characters. Anderson herself is coming too.
Benauwdheid. Een gevoel van beklemming overheerst bij het zien van de nieuwe (mini)serie uit de stal van HBO, Sharp Objects. De serie is deze week van start gegaan, maar ik mocht alvast een aantal afleveringen zien. HBO’s Sharp Objects is een verfilming van het gelijknamige boek van Gillian Flynn, schrijfster van onder andere het spannende Gone Girl. Met Sharp Objects…
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