IDFA DocLab - How creative is AI?
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is becoming increasingly pervasive. Artists are also making use of it, as seen in this 18th edition of IDFA's DocLab.
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Vondelpark Pavilion becomes IDFA's Documentary Pavilion - meeting place for people and ideas
We already knew that IDFA is more than a festival. Now there is also the Documentary Pavilion, its own place where all IDFA's activities, both for audiences and makers, can flourish throughout the year. 16 March starts the official opening week.
IDFA 2023 - DocLab and the shadow worlds
Wordt iets beter als het schuurt? Kunst als slijpsteen van de geest? Het aloude begrip dialectiek, de botsing van tegenstellingen waaruit iets nieuws ontstaat? Deze 17e editie van IDFA’s DocLab, het programma vol digitale kunst, interactief werk en virtuele werelden, heeft als thema ‘Phenomenal Friction’. Technologie is veelal gericht op efficiëntie en gemak, maar DocLab nodigt ons uit om te…
How I almost fell off my bike because of a VR documentary #IDFA Doclab
IDFA DocLab has returned home to the Brakke Grond, and how! More than thirty-five works explore the boundaries of documentary in content and form. DocLab is the digital playground where anything is technically and conceptually possible now. So I watched a work with scent, danced in the 80s and got so relaxed I almost...
Master Talk with IDFA guest Laura Poitras: why her work can be an inspiration to today's activists.
Aansluitend aan de vertoning van haar in Venetië met de Gouden Leeuw bekroonde All the Beauty and the Bloodshed had de betrokken en kritische documentairemaker Laura Poitras in Carré een goed gesprek met IDFA’s artistiek directeur Orwa Nyrabia. Over haar ontdekking van de documentairewereld, haar verontwaardiging over Amerikaanse politiek en hoe ze ook hoop leerde zien.
IDFA 2022 - Artistic director Orwa Nyrabia on statements and an open eye: 'Rather ask tough questions than confirm our prejudices.'
Op 9 november gaat de 35ste editie van het documentairefestival IDFA van start. Over de filmselectie merkte hij op dat het ‘not only a judgement, but also a statement’ is. In dit interview vertelt hij over de keus voor filmmaker-activist Laura Poitras als eregast, en veel meer.
Museum of Austerity shows the bitter face of austerity cuts
Whenever a technology is presented that I am not yet familiar with, I like to explore. A museum with holographic glasses? Do it! However, it turned out to be the content that will stay with me for a long time. The Museum of Austerity by Sarah Wares and John Pring is no easy read. But essential for understanding the impact of austerity on disabled people...
Symbiosis, or how I wanted to become a butterfly - Symbiosis VR by Polymorph at the IDFA DocLab
DocLab has been the most exciting part of IDFA for 15 years. This is the place for experimentation in form, technology and content; pushing and stretching the boundaries of the medium. I like to plunge in, sometimes with skin and hair. The VR installation Symbiosis gives that opportunity quite literally. You get to enter a post-apocalyptic world, where people are forced to make connections...
IDFA 2021 – 15 jaar DocLab, 15 jaar documentaire buiten de gebaande media
IDFA-DocLab bestaat 15 jaar. Toonaangevend platform voor allerlei soorten al dan niet interactieve, virtuele of fysieke projecten waarmee kunstenaars ons een ander venster op de werkelijkheid geven.
Theatrical installation looking at current events from the Maroons' perspective, this summer at Plein Theatre
Swart Gat/ Golden Age (Dunguu olo - katibo-ten) is a theatrical installation about Amsterdam's slavery past and Maroon culture from Suriname. The concept is by Tolin Erwin Alexander, Berith Danse and designer Bartel Meyburg. The theatrical installation, which has lost none of its urgency, has been further finished and will start again in summer 2021! From 17 June (19 June...
Radiograph of a Family vetted. Five points that make this IDFA winner so special
In IDFA winner Radiograph of a Family, the Iranian revolution invades the marriage of filmmaker Firouzeh Khosrovani's secular father and her religious mother. What makes this family portrait so special?
Do {not} touch: from calm, dreamy distance to the urge to touch in IDFA's virtual reality
Today opens IDFA's The DocLab, perhaps my favourite part of the festival. With its own competition, commissions and exhibition, this is the realm of digital experimentation.
Renzo Martens on White Cube: 'From now on, the Stedelijk should devote its entire acquisitions budget to art by plantation workers.'
A sleek, snow-white art temple in the middle of the Congolese interior. What does that mean? Renzo Martens talks about his new documentary White Cube, and the art project that allows plantation workers to buy back their land. Premiering at IDFA and in Lusanga, Congo.
Watch tip: When You Hear the Divine Call - How a political subject becomes poetic
Golden Calf winner Buladó is now our Oscar entry. That will satisfy advocates of more colour in Dutch cinema. And on Sunday, check out Festus Toll's When You Hear the Divine Call, a more modest but equally telling example of new light in Dutch cinema.
Vanja Kaludjercic succeeds Bero Beyer as new director Film Festival Rotterdam
From February 2020, Vanja Kaludjercic will succeed Bero Beyer as festival director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Open your eyes, watch and reflect, engage in conversation. Opening IDFA 2019 showcases the sublime extremes of documentary.
The 32nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam has opened with Sunless Shadows. Confessions of young women jailed for complicity in the murder of their father or other man in the family grow into a haunting statement about oppressed women in a male-dominated society. The only Dutch film in the international competition is Rotjochies by Maasja Ooms.
New Lights at Filmclub Hyena - how young makers are breathing life into documentary
Good news for anyone who has so far missed If you grow up later, Max Baggerman's double award-winning graduation film. This documentary look at working people, as poetic as it is socially critical, can be seen again on 1 August as part of New Lights. This evening is the second instalment of a new bi-monthly event that introduces us to...
Shout out! The big fill-in for the new arts plan.
The Council for Culture has just proposed the new Basic Infrastructure (BIS), and it has become a very big, in traditional terms 'prosperous', baby. Since the Council is not allowed to name names, and can only list functions, we have already made a fill-in list here, in which we list (very briefly, because little time and not knowing about everything) which existing cultural...
Netflix brings Roma to cinemas. Is this the end of the 'windows' system?
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
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.
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...
DocLab 2018: improve the world, put on VR glasses.
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...
DocLab 2018: Artists as chefs serving you an adventurous menu of new media and artificial intelligence
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
Was will the WOB? Ministry makes documents around grant Labour Market Agenda culture public.
Het ministerie van OCW beschikt over uitstekende zwarte viltstiften. Op geen enkele manier is het me daarom gelukt te achterhalen welke krant in Amsterdam het WOB-verzoek heeft gedaan waarop minister van Engelshoven nu reageert. De lengte van het zwarte balkje kan alles zijn (behalve Coöperatief Cultureel Persbureau UA). Maar goed: iemand doet onderzoek naar de gang van zaken rond de…
Spring consultation 2018. Will levies and education boost Dutch film?
At the film sector's traditional Spring Consultation, the panel at the Ketelhuis shed its light on the video on demand explosion, among other things, and on the advice of the Council for Culture. Will operators support the film sector with levies on sales?
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