‘Een uitzinnige beheersing’ heet de documentaire die Manon Lichtveld en Bas Westerhof over Krisztina de Châtel maakten. De emoties komen pas echt los bij het bezoeken van het ouderlijk huis in Hongarije. We kwamen ze tegen in de Rabozaal van de Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Zij waren ook aan het filmen. Bas Westerhof en Manon Lichtveld. Cameraman Leo van Emden en ik volgden Koert…
The growth of the Dutch cinema sector continued in 2017, but Dutch cinema remains a problem child. Despicable Me 3 was the most visited. Soof 2 was, as in 2016, the most successful Dutch title. How is the Netherlands doing internationally? And what are we looking forward to in 2018?
Well, we're not big on hypes and traditions here, but still. The dark days around Christmas are very dark this year, so why not something with lists. This year, no list of toppers from the editors, but random entries from random readers, in random, if slightly alphabetical order. Motto of the reader question was: which things...
When I write job postings in the cultural sector, I receive wonderful letters. Candidates are usually graduates in an arts-related subject from a college or university and have internships or work experience at cultural institutions of repute. They are usually female, white and have completed their studies with fine grades. Yet I struggle with a problem: I live and...
With a 500-million-year-old pebble, Jonathan Harris began his lecture. IDFA presents the first international retrospective of this artist. As IDFA's chief guest, Harris gave the 'Master Talk' on Friday, about his life and work. His remarkably analogue vision was also the common thread during Sunday's well-attended DocLab conference. Fundamentally analogue Harris, who once started out in computer science...
Hey H., Tonight I went with J.P. to see Peter Perrett & Band at Paradiso, Small Hall. Sold out! I've told you about J. before, he was the deejay who gave me a 'crash course' in sincere music at the Eindhoven Bakery when I was 15 (1988). Before I tell you about Peter Perrett and why his music is worth...
In de marge van Amsterdam Dance Event zag ik twee muziekdocumentaires die blootleggen waarom dit genre vaak problematisch is voor de cinefiel. Beide films hebben zo hun mooie momenten, maar voldoen uiteindelijk niet voor wie meer wenst dan louter informatieoverdracht in televisieformat. Een sympathieke Goth Are ‘friends’ electric? is titel en grote hit (1979) van de Britse synthesizerpoppionier Gary Numan,…
I actually experienced it once! In the middle of a theatre performance, an elderly lady, who had nothing to do with the story, walked onto the stage. She must have got lost in the interval and ended up behind the wings through a door that was accidentally open. While the actors were engaged in a deeply serious Hamlet, she came laconic
Conny Janssen Danst celebrates its 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam will be stage and laboratory for Conny Janssen, her dancers and her team for three weeks. A video installation, performance, live rehearsals and an exhibition will portray the point at which the group has arrived on its development journey. Unorthodox "My start with the group 25 years ago was...
Na het plotseling overlijden van haar geliefde moet transvrouw Marina vechten voor haar recht op rouw en verdriet. Sebastian Lelio laat haar zien als een fantastische vrouw die zonder LHTB-etiket kan. In Berlijn vertelde hij meer daarover.
The prize for the longest and most artful kiss of 2017 has been given away and goes to Conny Janssen Danst. In a small tent on the square below Bossche Sint-Jan, this danced kiss forms the technical and dramatic highlight of Clarity. Two dancers, spinning pirouettes while keeping their lips connected, a video artist and the floating music performed live by iET were on Saturday ...
‘Mag ik jou vragen: weet jij wat tijd is?’ Greg Nottrots vraag kan niet rechter op de man af zijn, want ik ben de enige toeschouwer. MIjn plek is ongemakkelijk: een in vers grind wegzakkend stoeltje op de curieuze Utrechtse vlakte die door stadsontwikkelaars ‘Berlijnplein’ is gedoopt. Ik ben getuige van een vroege repetitie van De Denderende Tijd. In dat…
Giving the viewer a voice in the twists and turns a film story takes. It's a dream that has proved difficult to realise. But now there is the interactive cinema film Late Shift. A film or a game?
Twenty-five Canadians are listed for design and production of sound, video, music, lighting and stage technology. Nine Canadians are working behind the scenes for two hours. During those two hours, one Canadian is on stage. In front of six hundred spectators. What those 35 people have all managed to pull off tickles your imagination and tells...
Boris Charmatz has been a guest at many editions of the Holland Festival with impressive, provocative, socially engaged, finely composed and conceptually strong dance performances: Aatt enen tionon and Con forts fleuve (both in 2001); 50 years of dance (2010), Enfant (2011) and Manger (2015). His latest choreography, danse de nuit, premiered in Geneva last September. During the Holland Festival...
Deze documentaire over een Palestijnse dierentuin op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever is een welkome aanvulling op de stereotiepe beelden uit de media. Toch schuilt er achter die onbevangen benadering ook een niet te missen metafoor. Wie is het meest opgesloten, de dieren of de Palestijnen achter de stadsmuur van Qalqilya?
Do it. Make it. Don't care about others. Don't think about the consequences. Then sit on the blisters for a while, they will heal again. Starving for a while for art is not bad either. So choose your own path and enjoy every step. Above all: live in the here and now, all the time. History becomes...
Interview with Martijn Maria Smits about his new film Waldstille, which he shot in his native village in Brabant. A drama full of subcutaneous menace from a Dutch filmmaker with a signature of his own.
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.
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.
Er is klank; een notie van onmacht; een programma zonder kop of staart; er is kracht, kletspraat, mededogen; er is niks maar tevens een vergezicht, verhaspeld beeld vol werking en tegenwerking. Bovendien lijkt de taal hier en daar wat overspannen. Natuurlijk, onsamenhangend gezwatel kan wel degelijk gezellig zijn, of ontroeren. Onder omstandigheden kan zingeving mogelijk zijn, maar het zal niet…
De bijna vijf uur durende documentaire ‘Combat au bout de la nuit’ maakt duidelijk hoe de gewone Griek de crisis ervaart. Een ware onderdompeling.
The European Film Academy keeps the focus on the Russian condemnation of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov alive. Another protest at the Berlinale.
If he could have, photographer Ed van der Elsken would have preferred to have a camera built into his head, to capture the world twenty-four hours a day. What he did manage to make are countless beautiful photographs, films and books. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows his rich legacy at the major exhibition The camera in love. He was...
A conversation with Erik Lieshout on 'To Stay Alive', his film adaptation (with Iggy Pop!) of Michel Houellebecq's essay 'Rester vivant'. Don't throw in the towel, insists these life-giving artists. Reinvent yourself.
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