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Video Essay Published in [In]Transition

Former Film Studies student Jasper Stratil has published his video essay, Revisiting Bruxelles-Transit: Moving through Spaces of Resonance, in [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies. In 2015 Statil spent a semester at our Department where he created the first version of this video essay. “35 years after (…) [Jewish director Samy Szinglerbaum made his film Bruxelles-Transit], I revisited ‘Bruxelles-Midi’ – to unravel different layers of history. The account of Szinglerbaums’s family history becomes intertwined with other histories: the history of the Diaspora, of the Shoah, of Brussels as a space of transit, and eventually of film history.

Revisiting Bruxelles-Transit in [in]Transition.

Book launch of Thomas Elsaesser’s new book

The book launch of Thomas Elsaesser’s new book, Film History as Media Archaeology: Tracking Digital Cinema, will take place on Friday October 14th, 2016 from 13.00 till 16.30 hrs in EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam. You are able to reserve a seat by sending an RSVP-email to marketing@aup.nl before October 7th. The launch event is made possible with support of the Department of Media Studies.

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Patricia Pisters Wins Louis Hartlooper Award

On Thursday, September 22th, the annual Louis Hartlooper Award for Best film Publication was awarded to Film Team menber, Patricia Pisters, for her book Filming for the Future – The Work of Louis van Gasteren, the first book on the work of one of most prolific Dutch filmmakers.

Read the full press release here (in Dutch).

Pllek Going Places | Afrolijk

On Friday September 23th, the fourth and last edition this summer of Pllek Going Places, co-organized by Film Team member Emiel Martens, will take place at Amsterdam city beach Pllek. Under the title Afrolijk, meaning ‘AfroJoy’, the night will provide a full South African program. It will start with the open air screening of the South African film Ayanda (2015), after which the DJs of Rituals, the new branche of Afrolosjes, will take over the night with an Afro dance party. A performance by South African dancer Elvis Sibeko, art by photographer Alice de Kruijs and food by Broodje Met will make this last edition of Going Places complete. Afrolijk also marks the official launch of Afrovibes, the annual festival of modern theatre, dance and music from Africa that will be held next month in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag and Rotterdam.

Click here for more info and RSVP. Click here for film tickets.

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Filming for the Future nominated for Louis Hartlooper Prize for Best Film Publication 2016

Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis Gasteren by Film Team member Patricia Pisters is nominated for the Louis Hartlooper Prize for Best Film Publication 2016. The annual Louis Hartlooper Prize for Best Film Publication will be presented during the Dutch Film Festival on Thursday, September 22nd. For the 12th time, the award will be awarded to a person with one or more publications in the past year that has made a stimulating contribution to thinking about Dutch film culture.

Patricia Pisters’ Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis Gasteren (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) presents an analytical tribute to this versatile artist. The book includes three DVDs, which enables the reader to ‘visually check’ the theoretical explanation given in the book.

For more information about the prize and the nominees (in Dutch), please visit: www.louishartlooperprijs.nl.

Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania

This month Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania will be published by ABC-CLIO. The book, edited by Jeremy A. Murray and Kathleen M. Nadeau, offers a compresensive guide to the rich popular culture of the diverse countries of Asia and Oceania and provides high school students and general readers with an understanding of the globalization of pop culture. Film Team member, Emiel Martens, has contributed to the guide with a feature on Maori cinema.

The guide, which will be released on August 31th as both e-book and hard cover, can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com. More information on the book can be found on the publisher’s website. The full feature by Martens can be found on his Facebook page on Maori cinema.

On Teaching: The Cinematic City

In the new summer issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture, Film Team member Floris Paalman reports on a research seminar about ‘the cinematic city’ that he taught, and reflects on some of the lessons learned.

Read the full article here.

Summer Film School in Antwerp

The Vlaamse Dienst voor Filmcultuur is again organizing their Summer Film School in Antwerp. The program contains 7 days with over 15 lectures and 20 films, organized in two thematic series: the work of Chantal Akerman and the use of the ‘song’ throughout film history.

Participants pay €135 for the whole event or €75 for one of the two series. Students pay a discount price of €70 or €40. You can register until July 6 via info@vdfc.be. More info: www.vdfc.be.

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Acting Locally: Regional Media and the Pedagogical Mission

On Tuesday July 12 from 4-5.30pm, Devin Orgeron (North Carolina State University) and Melissa Dollman (AV archivist/PhD student University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will host a special lecture and discussion at the EYE Collection Centre (Asterweg) by on the idea of regional archiving and regional film collecting. With an eye toward uncovering North Carolina’s hidden film and media history, they hope to encourage audience members to think more carefully about their own region and the complex nexus of media at the heart of every locality.

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Conference on Urban Latin America and the Caribbean

From June 16-17, 2016, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), where Film Faculty member Emiel Martens is board member, in cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology, will host the international conference Cities and Citizenship in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean in Delft, the Netherlands. The conference, with keynotes by Clara Irazábal (Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University) and Rivke Jaffe (Professor of Cities, Politics and Culture at the University of Amsterdam) and more than 50 presentations by academic researchers, will be of interest for everyone interested in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and issues surrounding cities and citizenship more generally.

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Launch DocuDoka with the Dutch premiere of Gringo Trails

On Friday, June 17th, Volkshotel launches its own engaging film and discussion night in Doka, located in the basement of the Volkskrant building. Under the title DocuDoka every two months an urgent issue in today’s global society will be discussed on the basis of a documentary and discussion with special guests. The first film that will be shown is Gringo Trails, a thought-provoking documentary about the traces that backpackers leave during their travels.

Docu Doka, an initiative of Volkshotel created by Film studies Faculty member Emiel Martens and produced in collaboration with Gasten in je Gezicht and Caribbean Creativity, will consist of a variety of film series that explores the adverse effects of globalization. The first series focuses on the impact of tourism. What are the effects of modern tourism on people and the environment?

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ROTTERDAM CLASSICS on Wednesday June 8th

An evening of films about Rotterdam and its urban development. A cinematic journey that starts during the interwar period and ends in the present with titles like ‘De stad die nooit rust’ (Von Barsy, 1928), ‘Houen zo’ (Van der Horst, 1952), ‘Stad zonder hart’ (Schaper, 1966), ‘‘t Is gewoon niet mooi meer’ (Rijneke & de Ridder, 1976), ‘Images of a Moving City (Doing, 2001), ‘2KM2’ (Van Hees, 2008), and many more.

Guests are Winy Maas (architect), Floris Paalman (author of Cinematic Rotterdam and Film Faculty member), Kees Weeda (former head Art Department of the Municipality of Rotterdam), and Arthur Bueno (film editor).

KRITERION | Wednesday, June 8th | start 19.30 – for free!

Rotterdam Classics is part of five days of movies in Kriterion, a program that celebrates the city of Rotterdam!

For more information, click here.

Dutch Pre-premiere of Welcome to the Smiling Coast at Pllek

On Friday, June 24th, Welcome to the Smiling Coast, the documentary produced by Film Faculty member Emiel Martens, will have its Dutch pre-premiere on the first edition of Going Places at Pllek in Amsterdam. After the world premiere at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and the European premiere at the Galway African Film Festival, the film will now be screened in the Netherlands for the first time.

For more information and tickets, click here. For the event on Facebook, click here.

The official Dutch premiere of Welcome to the Smiling Coast will take place at World Cinema Amsterdam on Saturday August 27th.

Face Down in Noir: The Body in the Pool

Face Down in Noir: The Body in the Pool
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 / 17-19 hrs

Public lecture by Dick Hebdige, Professor of Film & Media Studies and Art Studio at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The body in the swimming pool as metonym for trouble in paradise is a recurrent motif bordering on cliché in Hollywood/West Coast sunshine noir. In this talk, Professor Dick Hebdige tracks the passage of the corpse floating face down in the pool across the American imaginary from Southern Gothic to Sunset Boulevard, from the LA Times news archive to contemporary U.S. TV series like Weeds and Breaking Bad. Accompanied by multiple slides, film and video clips, Hebdige tries to answer the overarching question that binds it all together: whatever happened to the American Dream?

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Summer School Film Criticism

Always wanted to write for de Filmkrant? Then submit to our Summer School Film Criticism which will be completely devoted this year to American filmmaker Steven Spielberg (with reservation).

This summer Amsterdam EYE Film Museum organizes a large retrospective on the work of Steven Spielberg. On this occasion, the Summer School Film Criticism, organised by de Filmkrant in collaboration with EYE for the fourth time  a row now, will focus on Spielberg’s films and his legacy and influence on young contemporary filmmakers. Together the participants will create a special contribution that will appear in the summer issue of de Filmkrant.

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Seminar Nouchka van Brakel – A Female Point of View

On Wednesday May 18th, EYE, the Dutch Film Academy and the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis / Media Studies) organize a seminar on the films by Nouchka van Brakel on the theme ‘a female point of view.’ The seminar will feature, among others, former NOS journalist Margriet Brandsma and Film team member Patricia Pisters who will talk with Nouchka van Brakel about her films and inspirations.

For more information, check the event on the EYE website here or watch and/or download the full program here (both in Dutch).