On Thursday July 6th from 7-10pm there will be a second session of Black Figures, Black Voices focuses on the work of the Surinamese -Dutch poet and author Edgar Cairo (1948-2000). The evening at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam starts with a screening of Cindy Kerseborn’s documentary ‘Edgar Cairo: Ik ga dood om jullie hoofd’ (2011), about the life and work of this writer, poet, painter and performer. Kerseborn’s film highlights Cairo’s role as a pioneer in the thinking about a black identity and a black consciousness in the context of the Dutch colonial history and post-colonial present. During this evening, Charl Landvreugd (Artist, Researcher) will read from Cairo’s poems and present a performative lecture that focuses on reading Cairo as theory. In the exhibition space, a number of rarely exhibited paintings by Edgar Cairo will be on display. The program ends with time for questions and a dialogue between the audience, Charl Landvreugd and Cindy Kerseborn.

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The Armenian Genocide is commemorated every year by descendants of survivors. What is the influence of the genocide and the commemoration culture on them? On the 8th of June this will be discussed in the Humanity House on the basis of the film Ararat. Ararat (2002) is a drama film about a family and film crew in Toronto working on a film based on the Armenian Genocide. In addition to exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, Ararat examines the nature of truth and its representation through art. After the film there will be a conversation with Marie-Aude Baronian, Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam, and Aysenur Korkmaz, PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam in regional, Transnational and European Studies. The event is free of charge and open for all to join.

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On Tuesday, May 23th, from 10:00-12:30 hrs, there will be a film screening of The Poetics of Fragility (2016, 63 mins) and a master class with its filmmakers, Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi, at the VOC-room of the Bushuis (Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam). The screening (and accompanying Q&A) is open for the general public, along with the participants of master class. The screening is organized by Sudha Rajagopalan, hosted by NICA and ASCA, and moderated by Jaap Kooijman. The Poetics of Fragility is a kaleidoscopic bilingual exploration of the texture, vitality and aesthetics of fragility. It interweaves stories of bodily frailty with optical vignettes of nature’s delicacy to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to existence, not something to be bemoaned or overcome.

Registration: Please register for the masterclass by sending an e-mail to Eloe Kingma at nica-fgw@uva.nl, including your program and affiliation.

From Saturday May 27 to Tuesday May 30, the annual EYE International Conference takes place at EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. The final schedule of this 3-day program is now available online. This year, the conference presents a special 40th edition of the technical symposium The Reel Thing. Founded and curated by Grover Crisp and Michael Friend, The Reel Thing addresses current thinking and most advanced practical examples in the field of preservation, restoration and media conservation, and creates an international common ground for discussion and evaluation.

The Reel Thing has been presented all across the United States, as well as Europe and South America, since its inception in 1994. The Reel Thing at EYE Filmmuseum is a 2-day program with a unique line-up of 25 international laboratory technicians, academics, archivists, new media technologists and preservationists. The Reel Thing includes technical presentations and special screenings of restored films. The opening of the EYE International Conference on Saturday May 27 is part of the EYE Collection Day, featuring recent highlights from the collection of EYE Filmmuseum. The 3rd conference day, on Tuesday May 30, takes place in the new EYE Collection Centre.

Program and registration information can be found here.

Geo Mediations celebrates the entanglements of media and geological events. By situating media objects and digital culture within geological processes, the event addresses the need for a materialist understanding of mediation in the Anthropocene: the present geological epoch during which humans have become a geological force that is capable of having environmental impact on the earth. The evening program brings together a wide ensemble of voices in both talks and artwork presentations.

20:30 -23:00  Mediamatic Biotoop  Dijkspark 6, 1019BS Amsterdam By Mediamatic Foundation  +31206389901 mediamatic.net.

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This month a new wave of curators and artists will present self-composed programs and remixes of material in the EYE collection. Students of the Master Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image and the Master Media Studies (UvA) have made programs consisting of films from the EYE collection and their own work (remixes).

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Fasion plays an important role in films. Cross-pollinations between the fashion industry and the film industry are already regularly taking place since the 1920s. This film program, taking place in May and June 2017, includes a selection of four films in which the relationship between fashion and film is clearly visible or is made visible.

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A double edition of EYE on Art on behalf of FIBER Festival, including a special on film and alchemy. Alchemical Visions is the title of a cinematic trip that will initiate the audience into the alchemists’ time-honoured quest to transform matter. An evening with Professor of Film Studies Patricia Pisters, architect/artist Füsun Türetken, filmmaker Karel Doing, media artists TeZ and Tarik Barri and sound artist Mark IJzerman.

Alchemical Visions is an introduction to the FIBER Festival (11-14 May). This year’s theme is the relationship between art and alchemy.

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The symposium ‘The Costume of the Future’ focuses on the role new technological developments play in designing and making costumes. What does it mean for the making process? Does it change the costume designer’s role? And what does it mean for directors and actors? These and other questions will be discussed by Dutch designer Ellen Lens (Brimstone), the Italian-American designer of digital costumes Luca Nemolato (The Hunger Games) and former fashion journalist Pauline Terreehorst. Moderator is Marketa Uhlirova, Director of the Fashion on Film Festival in London and author of numerous books and articles about the role of fashion and costumes in film. This symposium was established in collaboration with students of the MA Film studies (UvA), and particularly the course ‘(Un)dressing Cinema: Fashion & Film’ by Marie Baronian.

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On May 5th, 2017, Béla Tarr will have a discussion in EYE with the famous French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who has written a book about the work of Béla Tarr. In Béla Tarr: The Time After, Rancière dives deeper into the role of time in Tarrs’ films. The moderator of the night will be Dana Linssen (TVNZ, Filmkrant).

More information about the event can be found here.

The AMIA UvA Student Chapter (Association Of Moving Image Archivists) in association with the Masters Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image are pleased to announce a special talk by Tjarda de Haan, web archeologist at the Amsterdam Museum (https://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/), on the 20th of April, 2017, from 4-6pm at Oudemenhuispoort C.223 in Amsterdam. Tjarda will present and discuss her on-going project Reconstructing The Digital City. Open to all students and interested parties.

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Find out more about AMIA student chapter here.

After the 2016 edition about the sense of smell, the Institut Français des Pays-Bas is pleased to invite you to the 7th edition of the Film&Science Festival – “Illusions : Trick & Treat your Sight”, which will be held on the 12th and 13th April from 7pm at the FilmHallen in Amsterdam.  Should you wish to attend to the evenings, please, register by email to science-univ.la-haye-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr, stating the number of people. 

Check the full festival program here.

From April 3 to May 15, EYE and the University of Amsterdam present This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, a series of six public lectures at EYE devoted to notable projects in the field of film restoration and film heritage. Giovanna Fossati (chief curator at EYE and professor of Film Heritage at the UvA) addresses recent restoration projects and presentation forms of film heritage, varying from pre-cinema to recent experimental films and Hollywood classics. Besides regular film projections in cinemas, the lectures cover exhibitions and alternative presentation formats. Each session features a guest speaker, a Q&A and film screenings, often accompanied by live music.

For more info and the full program: eyefilm.nl/thisisfilm

On Friday, March 31st, 2017, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS), organizes a festive network event in film theatre Rialto in Amsterdam. The event is devoted to the annual award for the best thesis written on a Latin American or Caribbean topic at a Dutch university in the academic year 2015-2016. The nominated master students will all give a short presentation on their thesis, after which the jury will award the prize for best thesis and, this year for the first time, the best presentation.

The program will start at 3pm with the screening of Consuming the Future, a short film by Jaime Hoogesteger, President of NALACS, and a response and discussion by social scientist and activist, Rosabla Icaza Garza. After the ceremony, from 5pm onwards, there will be drinks and bites in the bar of Rialto. Entrance is free.

NALACS Thesis Award 2015-2016

Date:                Friday March 30, 2017
Time:                3-7pm (start program: 3pm, start drinks: 5pm)
Location:        Rialto (Ceintuurbaan 338, 1072 GN Amsterdam)
RSVP:              www.facebook.com/events/1327513283938801
Entrance:       Free of charge and open for all to attend, both to the ceremony (3pm) and the drinks afterwards (5pm)

No registration needed, just come and join!

On Thursday March 30th, DocuDoka (of which the Film Team is part as well) organizes a film and discussion night on the encounters between tourists and refugees. The night in creative bar Doka will start with the screening of Holiday for Everyone (2017, Vakantie voor iedereen), a new documentary by Dutch film trio Annelies Wezenberg, Mark Koster and Rik Lauwen about a temporary center for asylum seekers on a Dutch holiday park and their contact with the local vacationers there. After the screening, which also includes short film and PowNed news report on similar encounters in the Mediterranean region, there will be an interactive discussion with the filmmakers as well as two experts, (former) refugee worker Rebecca Streng and philosopher Ruud Welten.

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On Thursday the 23th and Friday the 24th of February the documentary Metalepsis in Black (Aryan Kaganof, 2016, 98 min) will be screened at film theatre Cavia. Metalepsis in Black is a powerful documentary about the student activism in South Africa and the debate about the non-existent equality in education and throughout contemporary society, 22 years after the supposted abolition of apartheid.

More info & RSVP: facebook.com/events/694389974053764/.

The Research Labs in EYE on Art on 28 February and 16 May provide scope for a new generation of curators and artists to hone their skills. In these Research Labs, students from ten art academies and universities put together a programme involving their own work and films (including remixes) from EYE’s collection. The Research Labs do not follow a strict format and often result in a cultural crossover between film and other art forms. On 28 February and 16 May EYE will award a prize for the two best projects in collaboration with Heineken H41.

Tuesday the 28th of February will be an evening in collaboration with the Film Team of the University of Amsterdam and the Piet Zwart Institute to celebrate, challenge and contradict the age-old question of happiness. The programme will feature 17 original film and artworks presented by young researchers and artists who ask you tonight: are you happy?

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The film Emerald Transmutations (2016), made by Ian Magor, D.N. Rodowick, Jacques Perconte, Polly Stanton, David Verdeure, Rosa Menkman and Film team member Patricia Pisters, will receive its world premiere at the Alchemy Film Festival in Hawick, UK, on Friday March 3th. Jacques Perconte will be present for a Q&A after the screening and Patricia Pisters will give a talk at the Alchemical Visions Opening Symposium on Thursday March 2nd.

More info and tickets for Emerald Transmutations:
alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/indefinite-visions/

More info and tickets for the Opening Symposium:
alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/symposium/

In two days time the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017 (25 January – 5 February) will start! Since its founding in 1972, it has become one of the most important events in the film world, maintaining its focus on independent and experimental films by emerging and established filmmakers. Film Team member, Patricia Pisters, takes part in the jury of the Tiger Shorts and is involved in two other festival programmes, including Black Rebels, a programme of films, documentaries, tv-series and art from and about.

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Sounds of Silence festival presents silent film masterpieces with cutting edge contemporary music, performed live. This year they celebrate our 3rd edition, coming to The Hague in February 24-26, 2017. The festival is sponsored by Gemeente Den Haag and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and hosted by theatre De Nieuwe Regentes, the Hague.

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