Ga, ergens in 2022, als het weer kan, alsjeblieft naar een theater waar je ‘Verdriet is het ding met veren’ kunt zien. Je kunt daar kijken en luisteren naar het fenomenale talent van Jesse Mensah – als hij niet voor die tijd het Songfestival gewonnen heeft – en de magie die aan Jacob Derwig kleeft, ervaren. Vergeet, voor de tijd…
Traveling While Black touches you deeply and that is exactly the intention. The 20-minute or so Virtual reality film immerses you in the history of institutional racism in the US and especially what it does to people. The location is Ben's Chili Bowl in Washington DC*. We sit at a table in a classic diner with people...
Last year it was suddenly buzzing around: Dutch animation film is going to break through, a real animation industry has emerged. The occasion was the premiere of Heinz, Piet Kroon's whimsical and out-of-print film version of Windig and De Jong's comics. Not a children's film. And certainly not a Disney clone. We are talking about feature-length animated films, and there are many of those in the Netherlands....
Eye Xtended presents extraordinary VR. This time an experiment by the always challenging artist Paul McCarthy. Embedded in a package of films that served as inspiration.
Zet een stuk of 15 stuiterballen uit de eerste klas van het basis-vmbo in een antieke kajuit van een paar vierkante meter en je weet zeker dat het er honderd zijn. Muziek zullen ze maken en ze hadden zelf bedacht dat het over een bos moest gaan. Dat gaat de begeleidster van Protoon voor ze regelen. Er liggen pads klaar,…
Ietwat misselijk en met wankele benen verlaat ik de corridor waarin ik zojuist Eight van Michel van der Aa heb beleefd. ‘Heb je het circuit gevolgd op die hoge hakken?’, vraagt een medewerker van het Holland Festival ongelovig. Inderdaad had ik mijn pumps beter bij de ingang achtergelaten. Het mixed realityproject Eight beleeft dinsdag 4 juni zijn wereldpremière in Muziekgebouw…
‘Heinz’ en ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’, beide uit op 18 april, signaleren een belangrijke ontwikkeling op gebied van de lange Nederlandse animatiefilm. Een doorbraak hangt in de lucht. Over eigenwijsheid en coproducties, Anne Frank en Miss Moxy. En wat er nog meer in aantocht is.
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.
Last week, while walking the dog, my neighbour Stefanie asked, "What is that anyway, this Holland Festival?", and I almost caught myself wearily going to explain that it was the most important performing arts festival the Netherlands and its environs and that everyone with a bit of education should know it. But I held back. And wondered: how...
What a grandiose invention to think of breakdance as martial arts dance! In a sense, of course, it has been so from the beginning. Young people in New York's poor neighbourhoods developed their spectacular dance techniques in the 1980s. These were a means for them to express themselves in their own unique way. This was a necessity of life in a society that...
Here it is. The one and only interactive Culture Press Holland Festival Special. A special that has already been deployed over the past few months, and will be added to in the coming month. During the festival, we have regular reviews and reports, and podcasts. A new edition of this Special will appear every week. On Mondays. And then you can also subscribe via...
Donderdag 19 april staat de componist Michel van der Aa in de spotlights van Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ. Het avontuurlijke Nieuw Amsterdams Peil speelt naast zijn eigen muziek ook door hem gekozen stukken van geestverwanten. Speciale gast is Wende Snijders, die samen met Van der Aa een aantal liederen componeerde. Zij soleert bovendien in de wereldpremière van de integrale cyclus…
Listen to an atmospheric impression and the full interview with Stef Aerts here. Children have the ability to turn adults' worlds upside down. Eleven-year-old JR is really getting into it. On a school trip, he learns how the stock market works and then turns it to his will. In doing so, unhampered by a prefrontal cortex, that part of the brain...
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?
In de serie (On)gehoord presenteer ik elke maand buitengewoon geluid dat niet onopgemerkt en onbesproken blijft. In deze aflevering: Plan Kruutntoone, Horse Lords, Luc Ferrari, Anemone Tube, Jaap Vink en Kraftwerk in 3D. Plan Kruutntoone – Wat Doen de Handen (LP op esc.rec.) “weer wakker geworden. xenakis is er niks bij. mezelf en spullen schuiven op zoek naar veiligheid. hoe…
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 against the yardstick: 'Have you been there?....
In the Style Year, events mainly look back at the art movement that began 100 years ago. Yet there are also contemporary initiatives that look ahead, such as in Amersfoort. In the Keistad, the Style Pavilion is being built from scaffolding material. Twenty contemporary, mostly young, visual artists will give their own interpretation to the outside of the pavilion. They draw inspiration from the building...
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.
Op Art (optical art) is less well known than Pop Art. Until you see the works in question. There may be no Op Art stars of Andy Warhol status, but their creations directly resonate with images you know from art history. On Saturday 25 February, a major exhibition[hints]In collaboration with the Louisiana Museum in Denmark[/hints] opened at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam about these...
Ruth Mackenzie has achieved an enormous amount in the short time she has been boss of Holland Festival. I've experienced the festival now since the late 1990s and watched it evolve from something very personal and sometimes obscure (under Ivo van Hove), to an ethereal feast of sizzling aesthetics (with Pierre Audi), to what it...
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.
Een van de mooiste musea van Nederland is te vinden in Tilburg, een stad die door sommigen nog altijd gezien wordt als de rafelrand van Nederland. Dit centrale onderdeel van Brabantstad krijgt ook relatief weinig geld van de overheid. Hoe hier dan toch een van de beste musea van de wereld kan liggen? Museum De Pont is, net als Huis…
The smallest details speak for themselves. For the second time during this edition of the Holland Festival, the legendary BBC series This Life comes along. Richard Cant, who plays a flawless lead role in Neil Bartlett's play Stella, has previously appeared in This Life, the series that set the standard for the modern docusoap in 1996. So now live, up close, in De Brakke Grond's Red Hall, the man who also played a solid role in Midsomer Murders.
Once, Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen had the Mauritshuis built with money earned in Brazil, including in the slave trade. Now a Brazilian is exhibiting in that same Mauritshuis with perfect 3D replicas of the backs of famous paintings. He made five new ones especially for this exhibition. Four well-known masterpieces from the Mauritshuis, but also a painting relating to the Brazilian adventures of the time.
Two major exhibitions honour the work of Constant Nieuwenhuys. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag shows his architectural utopia New Babylon, the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen outlines Constant's development from Cobra to this. We tour the Hague exhibition and explore the legacy of Constant's legendary project. Including some 3d photos.
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