The dance film occupies a unique place among the film offerings. Not driven purely by psychologising or text, it offers every opportunity for experimentation in form and content. But that also means it is difficult to place. And therefore difficult to make. The second part on the growing pains of the dance film features 2 dancers and performance artist....
Er wordt heel wat gemopperd op de Nederlandse film: hij is te braaf, niet creatief genoeg, er is te weinig experiment. Er is echter één klein eilandje waarin andere wetten gelden. Waar soms met stevige budgetten en soms voor een appel en een ei films worden gemaakt die een andere taal spreken: De dansfilm. Geen gepsychologiseer, geen eindeloze dialogen, maar…
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 ...
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?
Whether the artists performing on DWDD got paid for their performance. Esther Ouwehand of the PvdD did not know. She was not the only one, at the roundtable session on Wednesday 25 April on the labour market in the cultural sector. None of the MPs, fund managers, trade unionists present knew. So we asked on facebook and twitter how it was even done....
‘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…
Ons publieke omroepstelsel is uniek in de wereld. Dat is helaas niet iets om bijzonder trots op te zijn. Het bestel en de gedachten erachter zijn vrijwel onbegrijpelijk. Of zoals NTR-directeur Paul Römer het in augustus minder diplomatiek uitdrukte: we hebben ‘een achterlijk bestel dat aan niemand (meer) is uit te leggen’. Het was een zijlijn in zijn interview met…
Radio Kunststof is één van de succesvolste programma’s in de vroege avond op onze landelijke rampenzender Radio 1. Dat succes komt deels door de mooie formule: een lang gesprek met een meer of minder bekend figuur uit de kunst- en mediahoek. Veel belangrijker reden voor dat succes is echter het uitzendtijdstip. Tussen zeven en acht uur ’s avonds zitten heel…
It is easier than ever to produce and distribute your own videos. Every minute, more than 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Is this gigantic amount still manageable? No. The video platform has become too big to continue to exist without problems. By Nuno Blijboom There is no better source for cat videos, bullying vloggers and gaming youngsters
Het staat er echt, al is onduidelijk of er nou tweemaal 100 miljoen bijkomt of dat de publieke omroep en de hele cultuursector het met één keer 100 miljoen meer moeten doen. Maar het is in ieder geval duidelijk: net als in de rest van het concept-verkiezingsprogramma neemt de partij vooral afstand van de VVD en het vier jaar lang…
Last weekend, more than 500 monuments in the Netherlands could be visited for free during the annual Open Monumentendag. Every year, this special day has a theme, this year it was 'Icons and Symbols'. After a thorough restoration, Hilversum's Studio 2 in the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep also opened its doors after 85 years. During the same week, a pop-up exhibition...
When you go to a concert, you think about the music, the ensemble, the soloist and/or the conductor. Maybe you look up something about the composer but you never think about the programmer who made the concert possible. Astrid in 't Veld is someone who thinks about the range of concerts on offer years in advance in order to help you with...
Filmmaker Louis van Gasteren, who died on 10 May 2016, was initially an electrician but still found his calling as a filmmaker, producer, bohemian, visual artist and sleeper by conviction. The creator of a distinctive documentary oeuvre put much of himself into his work.
Throughout the year, the public broadcaster spends a lot of time on sports. For World Cup, Tour or Games, cultural broadcasts are cancelled for weeks without pardon. If you can't beat them, join them, Paul Witteman must have thought, or perhaps the viewing figures were disappointing, because on 1 May he devoted an entire Podium Witteman broadcast to cycling. Don't. The reason for the cycling special is...
"Let's have a Magna Carta of British Broadcasting." With those words, celebrated actor Idris Elba (Luther, The Wire) began his closing remarks in the British Parliament. For the past half hour, he has been speaking to the Lords and Ladies kindly yet persuasively about the need and opportunities for diversity in British television. The timing of this speech was perfect because...
Golden Calfs awarded at Gala of Dutch Film. What are the new talents this year.
Minister Jet Bussemaker's letter will keep tongues wagging for a long time to come. There are considerable gaps here and there between the Culture Council's advice and the minister's letter. Also in the field of film and media. A list of differences. Bussemaker notes that the film sector is changing considerably. Media consumption is changing due to the rapid rise...
NTR Podium: hét televisieprogramma over muziek en dans, stopt ermee. Vanavond is de laatste uitzending met het Harmonium van John Adams door het Residentie Orkest. In 2015 maakt NTR Podium plaats voor het nieuwe Podium Witteman. Dat gaat vooral over klassieke muziek en jazz.
"Theo van Gogh tried so hard to be an enfant terrible that we almost forgot that he was one of the Netherlands' most creative and productive filmmakers." I wrote this for the GPD papers on 2 November 2004, after an editor called me with the terrible news of the filmmaker's violent death. Soon, that murder was exactly ten...
De nobele kunst van het kabeltrekken is een van de meest winstgevende activiteiten in Nederland medialand. Dat bleek op dinsdag 15 april in de Amsterdamse rechtbank. Daar stonden de Nederlandse schrijvers, vertegenwoordigd door Lira, tegenover de grote kabelmaatschappijen en producenten, vertegenwoordigd door een paar hele dure advocaten, afkomstig uit de kantoortorens op de nabijgelegen Amsterdamse Zuidas.
No fewer than eight collections of arias, cantatas, duets and sacred works were published by Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677). She enjoyed great prestige in the Accademia degli unisoni founded by her father, and lived off her compositions.
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