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Podcast: This is how to freshen up the opening of a poetry festival. Poetry International Rotterdam successfully deploys rejuvenation.

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 May 201830 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, LITERARY, poetry international, SPECIALS, SPONSORED

The lectern. The lectern. The paper holder, if possible with its own light, which, shining upwards, draws stern shadows of the reading glasses on the poet's face. It is the kind of necessary evil that every poetry or literature festival has to deal with. Only the powerpoint is missing to make it a boring seed onion conference. Poetry International Festival Rotterdam has in...

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EYE Film Museum is reviving the revolutionary year 1968. But didn't the wave of innovation start much earlier?

by Leo Bankersen
27 April 201829 March 2022
8 min read
For members only, FILM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

In 1968, paving stones flew through the air in Paris. EYE Film Museum is packing big with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of that revolutionary year that unnerved and inspired filmmakers worldwide. But hadn't that wave of innovation started much earlier?

Amid speculation about the future, Berlinale 2018 opens with energetic stop-motion animation Isle of Dogs

by Leo Bankersen
16 February 201830 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, FILM

Berlinale 2018 opens with Isle of Dogs, a new stop-motion animation by Wes Anderson. An open letter signed by over 70 German filmmakers raises discussion about the future of the festival as director Dieter Kosslick steps down in 2019.

Sheila Hicks, Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands -2016-2017- Arsenale-End-wall

Venice Biennale emphasises soft forces in art

by Jan-Willem van Rijnberk
22 May 201730 March 2022
13 min read
For members only, VISUAL, PREMIUM, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The 57th Venice Biennale brings the world together and the art world to Venice. This year, the biennial art event is bigger than ever. Here you will find out what is 'trending' in contemporary art. Everyone thinks something of this event and we live in a time when everything and everyone is held up to the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....

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How VR filmmakers want to immerse you (and why theatre helps)

by Leo Bankersen
23 March 201723 March 2017
8 min read
FILM

Some doubt whether virtual reality is a suitable medium for feature film. The Dutch makers of Ashes to Ashes, The Night Watch and High Five show that it can be done.

Roger Ross Williams on 'Life, Animated' - Autistic boy saved by Disney films

by Leo Bankersen
20 March 201729 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, FILM

In the documentary Life. Animated, Roger Ross Williams tells the equally amazing and infectious story of how Disney films were the key to the world for autistic Owen. "It's about the power of stories," he says.

It's not America here... or is it? #WN17 #WU17

by A Quattro Mani
21 January 201730 March 2022
8 min read
For members only, LITERARY, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!, Writers Unlimited

Whether the end of communism and beginning of capitalism influenced his writing? Mircea Cartarescu, one of Romania's greatest writers, parried the question with a joke. 'That is far too small an event to change my style and novels.' Is this the real life? That is the theme of the literary festival Winternachten this...

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IDFA's DocLab: I walked blind through a splendid day in cyberspace

by Leo Bankersen
18 November 2016
4 min read
FILM

IDFA's tenth DocLab shows the state of the art in interactive documentaries, virtual reality and other media art. Juggle the artist's body or experience what it is like to be (colour) blind.

30th Cinekid: Versatile youth film festival must look for new director

by Leo Bankersen
13 October 201613 October 2016
4 min read
FILM

The cheerful Dutch children's film Owl's Ball opens Cinekid, the film, television and new media festival for children and professionals. This 30th edition is the last under the leadership of director Sannette Naeyé.

Olga Neuwirth: Weltkatzenmusik or acoustic preservation? #HF16

by Thea Derks
15 June 201610 February 2020
6 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Austrian politician Jörg Haider labelled its work Weltkatzenmusik. When his far-right Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs joined the government in 2000, it led to mass protests. At one such rally, Olga Neuwirth (Graz, 1968), under the title 'Ich lass mich nicht wegjodeln', denounced his anti-intellectual and anti-cultural agenda. The rest is history: Haider drove himself to pieces in 2008, Neuwirth...

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Modern panoramas at Mesdag do not dwarf the old

by Frans van Hilten
26 April 201629 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL

Although Panorama Mesdag always focuses on one painting, it is not a static museum. Changing exhibitions sometimes highlight Mesdag and his time, sometimes more modern artistic expressions. This time, the museum has approached artists to develop new visions on the concept of the panorama. A laudable decision. Whether the new panoramas are all equally convincing is a second. The main work in the exhibition is...

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The woman on the beach and why virtual reality film is not a film

by Leo Bankersen
28 March 201628 March 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

For one evening, EYE was all about virtual reality. What will remain of VR when the hype is gone we don't yet know. But maybe we will understand the phenomenon better if we stop comparing it to existing media like films or games.

HAFF 2016 proves that animation can do anything: from abstract art to documentary

by Leo Bankersen
14 March 201615 March 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

At the 19th edition of the Holland Animation Film Festival, versatility celebrates. From abstract to documentary. Special attention also to the connection between animation and installation art.

Dutch film press picks Son of Saul and Blood, Sweat & Tears as best films of 2015

by Leo Bankersen
28 December 201529 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Three completely different titles were favourites of the Dutch film press in 2015. Holocaust drama Son of Saul was the winner.

IDFA special (2): The last 4 minutes of JFK and 3 more ways to step into another world

by Leo Bankersen
20 November 2015
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

In the IDFA-themed programme Seamless Reality, artists explore the boundary between documentary and virtual reality. Experience the audio scent sensation or take a selfie in words.

Would Purcell have sounded as Richard III was reburied?

by Brechtje Roos
30 October 201530 October 2015
1 min read
MUSIC, PERSONAL

This text was initially spoken as a column commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir (April 2015- premiere at Theatre De Harmonie Leeuwarden). Trip to Scandinavia is a variation on that in three parts. Now with animation. Also watch episodes 1 & 2.

Producer Pixar hit Inside Out: 'An overly protective upbringing is not good'

by Leo Bankersen
30 October 201530 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, FILM

Inside Out. Almost six months after its Cannes premiere, we talk to producer Jonas Rivera about the reactions. Does the Pixar hit help parents understand their children better?

KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015 - From Dutch Oscar entry to committed work from the Arab world

by Leo Bankersen
26 October 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015 at EYE aims to introduce a wide audience to the international vanguard of animation film.

Le Nouveau winner Cinekid: real-life French teen film

by Leo Bankersen
23 October 201530 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The Cinekid children's film festival announced the winners on Thursday. The real-life French teen film Le Nouveau was awarded double.

Monks and hippies in search of enlightenment

by Helen Westerik
1 October 201530 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM

Among the dozens of film festivals in this country, there is one that forms a small island of tranquillity and contemplation. The Buddhist Film Festival Europe, now in its 10th year, is a multi-day festival with, about and by Buddhists, or Buddhist-inspired. Now that everyone is all mindful, we go back to the source with festival director

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Let all bearded men in the periphery sing!

by Brechtje Roos
1 October 201530 March 2022
1 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PERSONAL

It was initially spoken as a column commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir (April 2015- premiere at Theatre De Harmonie Leeuwarden). Trip to Scandinavia is a variation on that in three parts. Now with animation. Also watch episode 1.

Dutch Film Special (3): Beauty film, eh! Dutch in Toronto

by Helen Westerik
22 September 201529 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM

How is Dutch film doing beyond its borders? Just before the Dutch Film Festival breaks loose, its big international brother in Toronto (TIFF) kicked off. Red carpets, big stars and ditto premieres. It may be slightly less well-known here than Cannes, but the TIFF is at least as important. For example, in the run-up to the Oscars. Not a bad thing, then...

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Animated serial Music Missionary: Trip to Scandinavia I

by Brechtje Roos
8 September 20152 April 2022
1 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PERSONAL

New: a veritable serial in words and pictures. Trip to Scandinavia was initially performed as a spoken column commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir (April 2015- premiere at Theatre De Harmonie Leeuwarden). Trip to Scandinavia is a variation on that in three parts. Now with animation.

Is 3D already old-fashioned? Inside Out even brighter with Dolby Cinema

by Leo Bankersen
17 July 2015
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Laser projection opens new vistas for digital film screening. On Wednesday, the JT cinema in Hilversum had the European premiere of Dolby Cinema with the screening of Inside Out.

Chinese animation art between experiment and tradition at Holland Animation Film Festival

by Leo Bankersen
16 March 201530 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, FILM

You haven't seen this before: stop-motion animation with figures made of Chinese porcelain. In the short film Mr Sea Chinese artist Xue Geng has depicted an ancient legend about an explorer, a prostitute and a snake

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