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# FILM STUDIES

Website of the Film Faculty of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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## Posts

- [Charles Forceville Publishes New Article on Film and Multimodal Metaphor](https://filmstudies.nl/charles-forceville-publishes-new-article-on-film-and-multimodal-metaphor/) - Film team member Charles Forceville has published a new article entitled “Metaphor in Film: Examples and Insights from Students’ Work,” in the special issue on metaphor of Lublin Studies in Modern Linguistics and Literature, guest edited by Paweł Bąk & Krzysztof Nycz. In this piece, Forceville argues that advancing visual and multimodal metaphor theory requires
- [1st Forum for Film Education](https://filmstudies.nl/1st-forum-for-film-education/) - The Forum for Film Education takes place on 27–28 November 2025 at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, hosted in the historic Chirurgisch Theater, and is organised by Film Studies staff member Blandine Joret and Thijs Witty (Leiden University). This inaugural forum brings together scholars, educators, curators, filmmakers, and practitioners from
- [New WebTalk on Sergei Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates](https://filmstudies.nl/new-webtalk-on-sergei-parajanovs-the-color-of-pomegranates/) - Film faculty member, Marie-Aude Baronian, features in a new AGBU WebTalks video discussing Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates. Entitled Poetry in Motion: Parajanov’s Masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates, the 10-minute webtalk is now available on YouTube. Released in 1969 and celebrated worldwide, The Color of Pomegranates is a visually striking film that
- [Underground: Cinema Psychedelica](https://filmstudies.nl/underground-cinema-psychedelica/) - Join us for Underground: Cinema Psychedelica, a week-long event at Eye, from October 17-23, 2024, celebrating the vibrant intersection of film, art, and psychedelia. Organized by our film faculty members, Patricia Pisters, Slava Greenberg, Amir Vudka, and Erica Biolchini, in collaboration with Eye, NICA, and RMeS, this program delves into the avant-garde American film scene
- [Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage, and Tourism Wins Applied Research Award in Barcelona](https://filmstudies.nl/erasmus-knowledge-centre-for-film-heritage-and-tourism-wins-applied-research-award-in-barcelona/) - The Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage, and Tourism (FIHETO), recently founded by Stijn Reijnders (EUR) and Film Faculty member Emiel Martens (UvA/EUR) has been honored at the 39th edition of the CETT Alimara Awards. Held during the prestigious Night of the Alimara, these awards recognize projects that have demonstrated an innovative vision in experiences,
- [New study on the use of metaphors in short animated videos about cancer](https://filmstudies.nl/new-study-on-the-use-of-metaphors-in-short-animated-videos-about-cancer/) - Film Faculty member scholar Charles Forceville and former student Nina Gebraad have published a new study on the use of metaphors in short animated videos about cancer. Their research, featured in the journal Visual Communication, reveals that these animations predominantly depict cancer as a battle, with the 'enemy' often visualized as a monster. Surprisingly, the
- [Lecture and workshop on Psychedelic Aesthetics by Joseph Crickmore](https://filmstudies.nl/lecture-and-workshop-de-colonizing-spice-melange-psychedelic-aesthetics-in-dune-by-joseph-crickmore/) - On Thursday, October 5, from 10.00-13.00 hrs, NICA/RMeS are hosting a lecture/workshop by Joseph Crickmore entitled 'De-Colonizing Spice Melange: Psychedelic Aesthetics in Dune'. After the introductory lecture by Crickmore, participants will enter into a discussion on political and de-colonizing ethics, approaching the current psychedelic revival from a media, cultural and broader humanities perspective. More info
- [New Book on Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film Published](https://filmstudies.nl/new-book-on-reframing-trauma-in-contemporary-fiction-film-published/) - In her new book Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film (2023), Film Faculty member Tarja Laine provides insights into how cinema engages its spectator emotionally with the pathology of memory that lies at the heart of trauma. By arguing that cinema communicates the inability to process a traumatic event by means of its aesthetic specificity,
- [Las Vegas: Life in Neon Shadows](https://filmstudies.nl/las-vegas-life-in-neon-shadows/) - On Wednesday, June 14, from 15:30 - 19:00, the 4-part documentary Las Vegas: Life in Neon Shadows (1986) by director and retired Film Team member, Bruce Gray, will be screened at the University of Amsterdam Theater (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16). The original tapes have recently been digitized for exhibition as part of Gray’s work at BuzzHouse's
- [Next Media Suite Seminar on Exploring Abstract or Operational Images](https://filmstudies.nl/next-media-suite-seminar-on-exploring-abstract-or-operational-images/) - On Wednesday May 24, 2023, from 15.00-17.00 hrs, the next Media Suite Seminar on 'Exploring abstract or operational images as new media (arts) research in the Media Suite' will be hosted online and on location. In this seminar, Megan Phipps will present her work on the CLARIAH Media Suite’s collection acquisition of The Peter Rubin
- [Fuck Healing (?): The Insomniac Dreamers](https://filmstudies.nl/fuck-healing-the-insomniac-dreamers/) - “Fuck Healing (?): The Insomniac Dreamers” is a week-long program of events from May 29 to June 2, 2023 at (mainly) OT301 which creatively and theoretically responds to the concept of exhaustion through a series of participatory art works, lectures, seminars, screenings and workshops. The project comprises three program sections across the first five working days: a
- [Book launch, film program, and discussion surrounding the work of Roberto Taroni and Luisa Cividin](https://filmstudies.nl/book-launch-film-program-and-discussion-surrounding-the-work-of-roberto-taroni-and-luisa-cividin/) - On Friday, May 19, from 2-5.30pm, the research group 'Moving Images: Preservation, Curation, Exhibition' (Eye Filmmuseum, UvA and ASCA)is organizing a book launch, film program, and discussion at the Eye Collection Centre (Asterweg 26). It concerns the launch of Taroni-Cividin: Performance, Video, Expanded Cinema 1977-1984, a bilingual edited volume which comprehensively chronicles and sets into
- [Committee of Six and WTC: A Love Story Screened by the UvA Student Chapter of AMIA](https://filmstudies.nl/committee-of-six-and-wtc-a-love-story-screened-by-the-uva-student-chapter-of-amia/) - On Tuesday May 9, at 7pm, the UvA student chapter of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA, related to the MA Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image), organizes the screening of the films Committee of Six (2022, 40') and WTC: A Love Story (2021, 60') at Ventilator Cinema/OT301 in Amsterdam. This program, introduced
- [New Webtalk on Aurora Mardiganian, Armenian-American actress and survivor of the Armenian genocide](https://filmstudies.nl/new-webtalk-on-aurora-mardiganian-armenian-american-actress-and-survivor-of-the-armenian-genocide/) - In the AGBU WebTalk entitled 'Aurora Mardiganian: Survivor, Witness, Activist', Film faculty member Marie-Aude Baronian offers a portrait of Aurora as a pioneer and activist, a young woman who having survived the unimaginable violence of the Genocide wrote a memoir to tell her story and the story of her people, then went on to play
- [After the Political, Aesthetic Affiliation](https://filmstudies.nl/after-the-political-aesthetic-affiliation/) - On May 2, 2023, at 4pm, Brian Price (University of Toronto) will give a ASCA public lecture entitled 'After the Political, Aesthetic Affiliation' in the Doelenzaal (UB) of the UvA Library. In this talk, Price will elaborate an aesthetic theory of solidarity with respect to Olivier Assayas’s recent television series. He will argue that Assayas’s
- [Patricia Pisters Speaks at Psychedelia and Computing Conference](https://filmstudies.nl/patricia-pisters-speaks-at-psychedelia-and-computing-conference/) - On Friday April 7, 2023, Film Faculty member Patricia Pisters will speak during the first session, entitled 'Psychedelia: a noetic experience of the entropic brain?', at the conference 'Psychedelia and Computing: How to Bifurcate Cybernetics?' hosted by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society of the University of California. The 1-day conference can also
- ['Spirits, Forests, and Screens' Workshop with Erik Bordeleau](https://filmstudies.nl/spirits-forests-and-screens-workshop-with-erik-bordeleau/) - On April 19, 2023, from 16:00-19:30, the film-philosophy workshop focuses on the cinema of Apitchapong Weersathekul together with dr. Erik Bordeleau. The workshop will consist of a screening of scenes from Weersathekul’s latest film, Memoria (2021), followed by a talk by dr. Erik Bordeleau (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and finally an open discussion. The workshop
- [Fuck Healing (?): The Insomniac Dreamers with Lectures and Seminars by Film Faculty Members](https://filmstudies.nl/fuck-healing-the-insomniac-dreamers-with-lectures-and-seminars-by-film-faculty-members/) - The Fuck Healing collective is pleased to announce its first Summer Program, entitled “Fuck Healing (?): The Insomniac Dreamers”, which will take place from May 29 to June 4, 2023. It is a series of events comprising lectures, seminars, creative workshops, screenings and art interventions at OT301, culminating in a one-day final event at Treehouse
- [Keynote Lecture on Multimodal Metaphor Theory](https://filmstudies.nl/keynote-lecture-on-multimodal-metaphor-theory/) - Film faculty member Charles Forceville will give a keynote lecture entitled 'On developing Multimodal Metaphor Theory into Multimodal Trope Theory: Providing Food for Thought' at the Culture and Cognition in Language 3 (CCL3) Conference, which will be hosted from April 27-28, 2023, at the University of Rzeszów, Poland. In the days preceding the conference Forceville
- [UvA scholars sign open letter: 'Stop developing AI systems'](https://filmstudies.nl/uva-scholars-sign-open-letter-stop-developing-ai-systems/) - The development of AI systems that are more powerful than the current ChatGPT-4 must be paused for the next six months. This is stated in an open letter from the non-profit institute Future of Life, which, in addition to big names such as Elon Musk, has also been signed by UvA scholars, including Film Faculty
- ['Who Owns the Future?' long read for Cinema Ecologica](https://filmstudies.nl/who-owns-the-future-long-read-for-cinema-ecologica/) - In May 2022, Film faculty Patricia Pisters introduced Spaceship Earth and Silent Running, two visionary films on attempts to live in cooperation and co-creation with nature, in Eye Filmmuseum as part of their Cinema Ecologica program. In addition, Pisters wrote a long read entitled 'Who Owns the Future?' exploring the cinematic visions of our planet’s
- [Media Team for Conference for Psychedelic Research 2022](https://filmstudies.nl/media-team-for-conference-for-psychedelic-research-2022/) - From September 21-24, 2022, Film Studies students will form the media team at the Interdisciplinary Conference for Psychedelic Research (ICPR) in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The conference will contain three days of inspiration and insights about the possibilities and challenges for reviving the potentiality of psychedelics for treatment from a wide interdsciplinary persepctive that shows the
- [Introduction by Patricia Pisters at Altered States Festival](https://filmstudies.nl/introduction-by-patricia-pisters-at-altered-states-festival/) - On Friday, November 11 at 7.15pm, Film faculty member Patricia Pisters will introduce Maya Deren's experimental films (with live music by Roxane Métayer) in theatre De Nieuwe Regentes in the Hague. The introduction, which is entitled 'The Limits of Perception: Nonhuman Aesthetics and Affective Intensity', is part of the Altered States Festival, a multidisciplinary festival
- [Exhibition Decolonising Media Studies](https://filmstudies.nl/exhibition-decolonising-media-studies/) - In the elective ‘Decolonising Media Studies: From Theory to Practice’, students produce their own projects addressing, tackling, and practicing decolonisation in the field of media. This year, the exhibition of final projects will take place on March 31, 2023, at the VOC-Zaal, in line with the aim of the course to encourage decolonial reflections on
- [Follow This is Film! series at Eye Filmmuseum](https://filmstudies.nl/follow-this-is-film-series-at-eye-filmmuseum/) - Curated by Giovanna Fossati, Chief Curator of Eye Filmmuseum and Professor of Film Heritage at UvA, This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is an annual public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage, with international guest speakers and film screenings. The 2023 edition of This is
- [Workshop on research-based filmmaking at InScience Industry Day](https://filmstudies.nl/workshop-on-research-based-filmmaking-at-inscience-industry-day/) - On Friday, March 17, at 10.45am, Film faculty Emiel Martens will host a workshop on research-based filmmaking at the Industry Day of the InScience Film Festival. The making of a film starts with translating an idea into a plan to submitting this plan for funding. However, writing a film plan and securing funding can be
- [OUTCOMES SESSION OF CLARIAH TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS](https://filmstudies.nl/outcomes-session-of-clariah-teaching-fellowships/) - On Wednesday March 15, 2023, at 3pm, a session on the outcomes of three CLARIAH teaching fellowships carried out at the University of Groningen (RUG) will be hosted on location and online via Teams. The session’s physical location is the E-lab at the University of Amsterdam’s Media Studies Department (room 0.16 in BG1, Turfdraagsterpad 9).
- [IAS KICK-OFF LECTURE BY PEI-SZE CHOW](https://filmstudies.nl/ias-kick-off-lecture-by-pei-sze-chow/) - On March 28, 2023, from 12-14pm, Pei-Sze Chow (Film Studies) and Claudio Celis Bueno (New Media and Digital Culture) will kick-off their Fellowship at IAS with a lecture entitled 'Automating Cinema: Technographic Explorations of Artificial Intelligence in Film Culture'. The location is the Institute for Advanced Study at Oude Turfmarkt 147 in Amsterdam. The lecture
- [FILM FACULTY MEMBER PEI-SZE CHOW NEW IAS MEMBER](https://filmstudies.nl/film-faculty-member-pei-sze-appointed-as-new-ias-member/) - Pei-Sze Chow (Film Studies) and Claudio Celis Bueno (New Media and Digital Culture) have been appointed Fellows of the UvA Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). Over the next 12 months, they will work on their project 'Automated Cinema: Technographic Explorations of Artificial Intelligence in Film Culture'. Emerging from their work in the AI and Cultural
- [SOUNDS OF SILENCE FESTIVAL AT THE END OF THE MONTH](https://filmstudies.nl/sounds-of-silence-festival-at-the-end-of-the-month-2/) - From 18-19 March, 2023, the Sounds of Silence Festival will take place at Theater De Nieuwe Regentes, The Hague. The festival, of which our film faculty member Amir Vudka is the artistic director, exposes the profound art of silent film and explores its interaction with contemporary music and art. Visit the festival website
- [New NECSUS Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence](https://filmstudies.nl/new-necsus-special-issue-on-artificial-intelligence/) - A new special issue of NECSUS on artificial intelligence edited by Patricia Pisters and Ruggero Eugeni has just been published. The issue, which includes written articles, audiovisual essays, book reviews, festival reviews and exhibition reviews, is available through open access. More info
- [Pisters featured in new video wiki](https://filmstudies.nl/pisters-featured-on-video-wiki/) - Our Faculty member, Patricia Pisters, has been included in the recently published video wiki "Scholars And Critics Expanding Our Understanding Of Culture". Founded in 2011, Ezvid Wiki was the world's first video wiki, and is now among the top 3,000 websites in the United States. Their YouTube channel has over 600,000 subscribers, with over 350
- [NEW PODCAST ABOUT HUMANITARIAN COMMUNICATION](https://filmstudies.nl/new-podcast-about-humanitarian-communication/) - "Colonial relationships and attitudes can clearly be recognised in the communications of international aid organisations. Hungry black children and noble white saviours are still very much present in contemporary campaigning. But many of the new, 'positive' or 'innovative' aid campaign genres are also very problematic, observe media scholars Emiel Martens (UvA/EUR) and Wouter Oomen (UU)
- [Exhibition, book and symposium on eco noir](https://filmstudies.nl/exhibition-book-and-symposium-on-eco-noir/) - On December 9, 2020, the University of the Arts Helsinki will host an online book launch and symposium that together mark the closure of the exhibition 'Cooking for the Apocalypse'. The book accompanying the exhibition, entitled Eco Noir: A Companion for Precarious Times, provides an textual and visual collaborative exploration of interspecies relations in time
- [New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror](https://filmstudies.nl/new-blood-in-contemporary-cinema-women-directors-and-the-poetics-of-horror/) - Film Faculty member Patricia Pisters' latest book, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema, is available now from Edinburgh University Press. In this book, Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put ‘a poetics of horror’ to new use in their work, expanding the range of
- [Eco Noir: A Companion for Precarious Times Out Now (Free download!)](https://filmstudies.nl/eco-noir-a-companion-for-precarious-times-out-now/) - Eco Noir is a textual and visual exploration of interspecies relations in times of crisis through the works of 34 artists, researchers and writers from around the world, including a chapter by Film Faculty member, Amir Vudka. This expanded collaborative reader acts as cartography for the new cultural, cinematic and artistic strategies we can offer
- [Psychedelica and Media](https://filmstudies.nl/psychedelica-and-media/) - In 1969, philosopher Marshall McLuhan argued that the interest in psychedelics at the time had to do with developing "empathy with the invading electronic environment." Today's "psychedelic renaissance" is led by experimentation in the therapeutic effects of mind-altering drugs. On February 22, 2021, film Faculty member, Patricia Pisters, explained during an online session of SPUI25
- [Publication of edited volume Pandemic Media](https://filmstudies.nl/publication-of-edited-volume-pandemic-media/) - Film Faculty member, Marie-Aude Baronian, has contributed with an essay to the new volume Pandemic Media. There are about 40 short essays from many media scholars who reflect upon media, screens, film, cinema, material objects (and more) in the time of the (post)pandemic. Baronian's essay is entitled "Textile-Object and Alterity: Notes on the Pandemic Mask."
- [DEUS EX MACHINA International Online Conference](https://filmstudies.nl/deus-ex-machina-international-online-conference/) - Film Faculty member, Amir Vodka, will be talking about AI from the perspective of Jewish mysticism and the myth of the Golem in sci-fi films at the Deus Ex-Machina conference, which is held online from February 25-26, 2021. More info
- [New Article on Film and History](https://filmstudies.nl/new-article-on-film-and-history/) - Film Faculty member Floris Paalman has published an article on the relations between film and history, and how 'history and film history could complement and enhance each other'. The article, which is entitled "Film and History: Towards a General Ontology", has been published in the journal Research in Film and History and is freely accessible
- [New Book on the Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games Published](https://filmstudies.nl/new-book-on-the-emotional-ethics-of-the-hunger-games-published/) - Film Faculty member Tarja Laine has published an new book on the emotional ethics of The Hunger Games, with that expanding 'the "ethical turn" in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source of ethical knowledge' in these. The book, which is entitled Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games, has been published by Palgrave MacMillan
- [Roundtable Discussion on Contemporary Horror](https://filmstudies.nl/roundtable-discussion-on-contemporary-horror/) - Together with Amanda Howell (Griffith University), James Rendell (University of South Wales), Emma Train (University of Texas at Austin), Johnny Walker (Northumbria University), Harry Warwick (University of Warwick) and Brandon West (University of Kentucky), Film Faculty member Patricia Pisters participated in a roundtable discussion on contemporary horror. The discussion has been published in the New
- [Sounds of Silence Festival at the end of the month](https://filmstudies.nl/sounds-of-silence-festival-at-the-end-of-the-month/) - The Sounds of Silence Festival exposes the timeless beauty of silent cinema and explores its interaction with contemporary music and art. This year the festival is held from October 28-30 in Theater De Nieuwe Regentes in The Hague. Film faculty member Amir Vudka is the Artistic Director of the festival and Asli Özgen-Havekotte, another Film
- [Call for submissions for the Humanitarian Communication Thesis Prize 2021](https://filmstudies.nl/call-for-submissions-for-the-humanitarian-communication-thesis-prize-2021/) - The Expertise Centre for Humanitarian Communication, with Film Faculty member Emiel Martens as Co-Director, is currently inviting submissions for their Humanitarian Communication Thesis Prize 2021. Have you recently (i.e. between January 1, 2020 and September 1, 2021) completed your master’s thesis on humanitarian communication or the representation of international development? Then consider submitting it by
- [CFP EYE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022](https://filmstudies.nl/cfp-eye-international-conference-2022/) - From May 29-31, 2022, Eye Filmmuseum, the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) will present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices’. The call for proposals is now open and the deadline to apply is 16
- [Archival Screening Night Roadshow](https://filmstudies.nl/archival-screening-night-roadshow/) - On Wednesday, November 17, at 7.30pm, the Dutch branch of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), associated with our Film Faculty, hosts the Archival Screening Night Roadshow, an (free!) evening of 20 films and videos from archives and archivists around the world. The Archival Screening Night Roadshow is a veritable treasure from the world's
- [LIVE CINEMA SHOW WITH FILMMAKER VINCENT MOON](https://filmstudies.nl/live-cinema-show-with-filmmaker-vincent-moon/) - On March 11, 2022, Faculty member Amir Vudka will be hosting a live cinema show featuring a special site-specific performance by filmmaker and artist Vincent Moon in De Nieuwe Regentes in The Hague. Moving between the realms of documentary creation, ethnographic research, and filmic experimentation, Moon's show will explore the poetry at the heart of
- [Humanitarian Communication Thesis Prize 2021](https://filmstudies.nl/1506/) - On Friday, March 4, 2022, the ceremony event of the Humanitarian Communication Thesis Prize 2021 will take place in cultural student centre CREA in Amsterdam. After an absence of one year, it is the third time that the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HuCom), which is co-directed by Film Faculty member Emiel Martens, awards this prize
- [Public lecture series This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice](https://filmstudies.nl/public-lecture-series-this-is-film-film-heritage-in-practice-2/) - Eye Filmmuseum presents the 8th edition of This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, a public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage. Under the overarching theme of Global Audiovisual Archiving, also this year’s theme of the Eye International Conference, international scholars and archival practitioners showcase and
- [REVOLUSI! The Indonesian revolution depicted](https://filmstudies.nl/revolusi-the-indonesian-revolution-depicted/) - From 11-29 March 2022 the Rijksmuseum and Eye present Revolusi! Both institutions will, with films, talks and other events, introduce you to the Indonesian war of decolonisation. The film museum will screen a program of Indonesian 'battle films' of which some have never been seen in the Netherlands before. Film Faculty member Arnoud Arps will
- [War and the Screen Machine: Film Lecture by Patricia Pisters](https://filmstudies.nl/war-and-the-screen-machine-film-lecture-by-patricia-pisters/) - On May 9 at 7.15pm Faculty member Patricia Pisters will present an audiovisual 'tour of duty' through contemporary war films in Eye. She shows that war and cinema have a long and intertwined history. Soldiers carry cameras and other media devices with them, and the battlefield has exploded on multiple screens, causing our viewpoints to
- [This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice](https://filmstudies.nl/this-is-film-film-heritage-in-practice-2/) - From March 6th to May 8th, Eye and the University of Amsterdam present This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice , a series of six public lectures at Eye devoted to remarkable projects in the field of film restoration and film heritage. Giovanna Fossati (Chief Curator at Eye and Professor of Film Heritage at the
- [Media as 'Pharmakon': Mental Health in the Digital Age](https://filmstudies.nl/media-as-pharmakon-mental-health-in-the-digital-age/) - Are digital media like narcotic drugs? Such comparisons have become increasingly common in the rampant discussion on smartphone and technology addiction. In his book 'Plato’s Pharmacy' (1968) philosopher Jacques Derrida discusses the ambiguity of the “pharmakon”, designating both poison and medicine, depending on context and individual differences. Can our contemporary media be seen as pharmaka
- [ASCA Lecture 'Radical Formalism and the Problem of Horror'](https://filmstudies.nl/asca-lecture-radical-formalism-and-the-problem-of-horror/) - On Friday May 10th, from 3-6pm, Professor Eugenia Brinkema (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) will give a talk entitled “The Violence of Fascination: Martyrs, Torture and Form.” In her talk, which will take place at the Potgieterzaal in the University Library (UvA) in Amsterdam, Brinkema will focus on Pascal Laugier’s 2008 new-extremist horror film Martyrs, arguing that the
- [AMIA: A History of British Animation](https://filmstudies.nl/amia-a-history-of-british-animation/) - The Association of Moving Image Archivists’ University of Amsterdam student chapter presents 'A History of British Animation' on Thursday June 6 at 7.30pm at film theatre Kriterion in Amsterdam. A diverse collection of shorts from across the 20th century have been remastered by the BFI National Archive to give a portrait of one of Britain’s
- [Call for Submissions Intelligence Special Issue NECSUS](https://filmstudies.nl/call-for-submissions-intelligence-special-issue-necsus/) - Guest editors Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam) and Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano) call for submissions for a special issue on Artificial Intelligence to be published in NECSUS in Spring 2020. They are looking forward to receiving abstracts of 300 words, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a short biography of 100 words by
- [Be Pretty and Shut Up!](https://filmstudies.nl/be-pretty-and-shut-up/) - French actress Delphine Seyrig played the impressive lead role in Jeanne Dielman, the film with which Chantal Akerman gained prominence. The director, who passed away in 2015, would have turned 70 today. In honor of Akerman, Patricia Pisters, Professor of Film Studies at the UvA, highlights the life and work of Seyrig, who as an
- [Stop Filming Us: The Film That Should Never Have Been Made](https://filmstudies.nl/stop-filming-us-the-film-that-should-never-have-been-made/) - The documentary Stop Filming Us won the Dutch Movies Matter Award and received favourable reviews by the Dutch press. Unbelievable, according to postcolonial media scholar Emiel Martens (UvA). ‘Postema throws the discussion about the Western view of Congo at least ten years back in time'. Full article (in English at ZAM Magazine) Full article (in
- [Why These Aid Campaigns Have to End](https://filmstudies.nl/why-these-aid-campaigns-have-to-end/) - Hungry children and white saviours are still very much present in campaigns by Dutch aid organizations. But also, many of the new aid campaign genres are problematic, observe media scholars Emiel Martens and Wouter Oomen. Every year they present the Fly in the Eye Award for the worst campaign on behalf of IDleaks, a Dutch
- [FIBER Festival: Alchemical Visions](https://filmstudies.nl/fiber-festival-alchemical-visions/) - 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
- [Filmcollege EYE  Mūbii Japan – 90 Jaar Japanse Cinema](https://filmstudies.nl/filmcollege-eye-mubii-japan-90-jaar-japanse-cinema/) - Bezoekers die meer willen weten van de Japanse cinema kunnen vanaf 5 oktober in EYE gedurende acht maandagavonden een in samenwerking met de Universiteit Leiden georganiseerd filmcollege volgen. Deze reeks van acht colleges biedt een overzicht van de Japanse film vanaf de vroegste stille films tot aan de arthousefilms uit het Japan van nu. Aansluitend op
- [Michelangelo Antonioni Exhibition at EYE](https://filmstudies.nl/michelangelo-antonioni-exhibition-at-eye/) - 12 September 2015 through 17 January 2016 EYE presents a major exhibition devoted to Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. With his famous trilogy The Adventure, The Night and Eclipse, Antonioni became one of the most innovative directors of the 20th century. The Adventure (1960) ranks as a turning point in film history, marking the start of
- [Shell Shock: Opening Night](https://filmstudies.nl/shell-shock-opening-night/) - In the Shell Shock program, filmmakers, philosophers, writers and speakers bring you as close as possible to the experiences of people after a period of war and violence. On the opening night on March 22, director Morgan Knibbe, film professor Patricia Pisters and philosopher Hans Schnitzler will tell about the processing of war violence in
- [Imperfections: Mistakes, Cracks, Noise Today](https://filmstudies.nl/imperfections-mistakes-cracks-noise-today/) - On March 12 from 6-11pm The Sublime Imperfections research collective devotes a round table and performance event to aesthetics & discourses of imperfection, mistakes, glitches and noise, repair and distortions. The event is part of a conference that address cravings for imperfection in design, music, art, writing, psychology, and genetics. The round table featuring, besides
- [Film Studies Alumni win Film Prize at NFF 2018](https://filmstudies.nl/film-studies-alumni-win-film-prize-at-nff-2018/) - The filmmaking duo, Malou Wagenmaker and Bo van der Meer, both alumni of the master Film Studies, have won the Film Prize of the City of Utrecht for their debut film Cheek to Cheek at the Nederlands Film Festival. The prize consists of an award and a money sum of €5.000. Read more here (in
- [NECS 2018: Media Tactics and Engagement](https://filmstudies.nl/necs-2018-media-tactics-and-engagement/) - From 27-29 June 2018 the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam is co-hosting the NECS 2018 Conference 'Media Tactics and Engagement'. Various members of the Film Team are part of the local organising team: Maurie Aude Baronian, Patricia Pisters and Maryn Wilkinson. The programme of the NECS 2018 Conference can be found
- [SISTERS! Proposal Extension & Keynote Announcement](https://filmstudies.nl/sisters-proposal-extension-keynote-announcement/) - The deadline for the call for proposals of the Eye International Conference 'Sisters! Women and the Silent Screen' has been extended to 7 December 10am (CET). The committee looks forward to receiving your proposals at conference@eyefilm.nl. In addition, the conference has announced the names of the keynote speakers: Jaqueline Stewart, Professor at the Department of Cinema and Media Studies of the
- [Call for Papers Symposium 'Sensory Moving Image Archives'](https://filmstudies.nl/call-for-papers-symposium-sensory-moving-image-archives/) - From 25-26 February, 2019, the international symposium 'Sensory Moving Image Archives: Visualization, Exploration and Reuse of Moving Image Data' will be held at the University of Amsterdam. The two-day symposium comes out of the research project The Sensory Moving Image Archive: Boosting Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research (SEMIA, 2017-2019). The program will consist
- [The 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference](https://filmstudies.nl/the-10th-women-and-the-silent-screen-conference/) - Once a year, Eye Filmmuseum is the venue for an international conference attended by film scholars, archivists, curators and restorers. The conferences are organized in collaboration with national and international partners from both the academic world and the field of film heritage. In 2019, the 5th Eye International Conference will host the 10th Women and
- [SUMMER FILM SCHOOL](https://filmstudies.nl/summer-film-school/) - Roffa Mon Amour (RMA) brings SUMMER FILM SCHOOL for the very first time to the Netherlands. From July 18 through July 22 we present a program of lectures and screenings in cooperation with CINEA, the Flemish service for film culture. At Drijvend Paviljoen and LantarenVenster in Rotterdam the work of two renowned cineastes will be
- [1968: You Say You Want a Revolution](https://filmstudies.nl/1968-you-say-you-want-a-revolution/) - Fifty years ago students, factory workers and filmmakers challenged the Establishment, from Paris to Mexico City, carrying not only bricks but also agile and light 16mm cameras. EYE Filmmuseum shows how the film camera became the rallying symbol of a generation of young people who demanded the right to shape their own lives. To mark the
- [New film 'Citizens of Nature' in the Making](https://filmstudies.nl/new-film-citizens-of-nature-in-the-making/) - Citizens of Nature is an upcoming film by Lonnie van Brummelen en Siebren de Haan that seeks to reproduce how Surinamese communities that live in the Guiana Shield rainforest organize the participation of other-than-human entities in their daily processes of decision making. Read here the article they have written about the film in between two
- [7 Day Short Film Competition](https://filmstudies.nl/7-day-short-film-competition/) - From 9th May until 16th May 2018 the 7 Day Short Film Competition challenges beginning filmmakers from the Netherlands and Belgium to produce a short film (in Dutch) of 7 minutes in 7 days! Best film will win € 2000,- and a big screen premiere on 9th June in Cinema Zuid, Antwerp. The winning film
- [EYE International Conference 'Activating the Archive'](https://filmstudies.nl/eye-international-conference-activating-the-archive/) - From May 26-29, 2018, the EYE International Conference 'Activating the Archive: Audio-Visual Collections and Civic Engagement, Political Dissent and Societal Change.' will be held in the EYE Filmmuseum. The conference will explore contemporary archival and academic debates, catering to film heritage professionals, scholars, archivists, curators and restorers. This year, more than fifty speakers from around the globe
- [Ammehoela Film Festival](https://filmstudies.nl/ammehoela-film-festival/) - The second edition of the Ammehoela Film Festival takes place on Saturday March 31 at FC Hyena in Amsterdam Noord. The one-day festival has selected 69 short films – among which 17 premieres – and divided them into 10 theme blocks of one and a half hour each. In addition, both Cinecrowd and The One Minutes will take care of one block and throughout
- [NALACS Thesis Award 2016-2017](https://filmstudies.nl/nalacs-thesis-award-2016-2017/) - On Thursday, April 5th, 2018, the Netherlands Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS) organizes a festive network event in CREA in Amsterdam. The event is devoted to the annual award for the best thesis written on Latin American or the Caribbeanat a Dutch university in the academic year 2016-2017. The nominated master students
- [MASTERCLASS: JOKO ANWAR & MARTIN KOOLHOVEN](https://filmstudies.nl/masterclass-joko-anwar-martin-koolhoven/) - CinemAsia, the annual Asian film festival in the Netherlands, will start its upcoming edition on Saturday March 10 from 1-2.30pm in filmtheatre Kriterion in Amsterdam with hosting masterclasses by two of their (inter)national guests (and judges): Indonesian director Joko Anwar (Satan's Slaves, Halfworlds, A Copy of Mind) and Dutch director Martin Koolhoven (Brimstone, War Winter).
- [Sound Of Silence Festival](https://filmstudies.nl/sound-of-silence-festival/) - The 4th edition of the Sound Of Silence Festival for silent film and live music will take place in Den Haag, from 9th-11th of March. During three days the festival exhibits six events of film masterpieces accompanied by innovative musical arrangements that incorporate different acoustic instruments, analog and digital electronics, voices and more. All the
- [MUBI free of charge for film staff and students](https://filmstudies.nl/mubi-free-of-charge-for-film-staff-and-students/) - MUBI is a curated online cinema and community that offers a subscription-based video on demand service. It features a movie every day and makes it available for its users over a period of 30 days. The service is available in over 200 countries around the globe and on multiple devices such as mobiles, tabs, computers,
- [Public Lecture Series This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice](https://filmstudies.nl/public-lecture-series-this-is-film-film-heritage-in-practice/) - This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is a six-session series at EYE offering insight into what happens behind the scenes in film archives, museums and cinemas. Each session will cover a different topic and feature an introductory lecture by Giovanna Fossati (Chief Curator at EYE and Professor of Film Heritage at the UvA), followed
- [Programme on African (diasporic) cinema on IFFR](https://filmstudies.nl/programme-on-african-diasporic-cinema-on-iffr/) - This year the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will be held from 24 January to 4 February. One of their programmes is Pan-African Cinema Today (PACT), which covers African and the African diasporic cinema with features, documentaries, shorts, virtual reality, music videos and rare classics. The main event to explore Pan-Africanism, the revolutionary historic movement
- [Florian Haag at IFFR to show 'The Villain Robert Otto'](https://filmstudies.nl/florian-haag-at-iffr-to-show-his-film/) - During the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam (24 January - 4 February), filmmaker Florian Haag, who is currently a student in the MA programme Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, will show his film The Villain Robert Otto, with which he graduated from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. The film is a
- [NECS 2018 Conference 'Media Tactics and Engagement'](https://filmstudies.nl/necs-2018-conference-media-tactics-and-engagement/) - The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University are happy to present The NECS 2018 Conference 'Media Tactics and Engagement' from 27-29 June 2018. There will also be a Pre-Conference ('Media in Transition') on 26 June 2018 hosted by Utrecht University and a Post-Conference ('Open Access in Media Studies') on 30
- [NEW ISSUE OF NECSUS OUT NOW](https://filmstudies.nl/new-issue-of-necsus-out-now-2/) - The new issue of NECSUS on dress is out now. The issue, featuring a contribution by Film Faculty member Marie-Aude Baronian, can be fully accessed online at necsus-ejms.org. The article by Baronian, entitled 'The Dress is the Screen: Dancing Fashion, Dancing Media ', can be found here. Access the new issue of NECSUS here.
- [Cine Qua Non Pop-up Shop](https://filmstudies.nl/cine-qua-non-pop-up-shop/) - Following the successful re-launch in August, Cine Qua Non is back in the form of a pop-up shop. You can find the store until the end of this year opposite the Coffee Company on Waterlooplein in Amsterdam. They have a diverse supply of film books, stills, posters, magazines, postcards and DVDs. Check out their website here.
- [EROS EN UTOPY – 'DIE SONNENINSEL' AS A LIFE IDEAL OF THOMAS ELSAESSER](https://filmstudies.nl/eros-en-utopy-die-sonneninsel-as-a-life-ideal-of-thomas-elsaesser/) - Tuesday, November 21st at 6pm actress Nicola Ruf will read from letters from Elisabeth Elsaesser, followed by the screening of the documentary 'Die Sonneninsel' and a Q&A with Thomas Elsaesser and Anna Seidl. The event will take place at the Goethe-Institut (Herengracht 470, Amsterdam) and the admission is €5 (students may enter for free). More
- [STEDELIJK STATEMENTS: PATRICIA PISTERS 3 NOV 2017](https://filmstudies.nl/stedelijk-statements-patricia-pisters-3-nov-2017/) - Stedelijk Statements: Patricia Pisters – Worlding the Brain is the fourth edition of Stedelijk Statements, a program series in which a scholar, artist, critic, or cultural entrepreneur composes an evening at the museum. The organizer of the program is given the floor to share his or her views on visual art and design. New research and
- [Call for Papers EYE International Conference 2018](https://filmstudies.nl/cfp-eye-international-conference-2018/) - From May 26-29th, 2018, EYE teams up with the University of Amsterdam and Sound and Vision in organising a special edition of its annual International Conference, entitled 'Activating the Archive: Audio-Visual Collections and Civic Engagement, Political Dissent and Societal Change', to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the Master’s in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image (P&P),
- [Black Figures, Black Voices: Edgar Cairo](https://filmstudies.nl/black-figures-black-voices-edgar-cairo/) - 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
- [Big Thinkers: Marguerite Duras](https://filmstudies.nl/big-thinkers-marguerite-duras/) - On Thursday September 7th (8pm) De Balie hosts another edition of Big Thinkers, this time on Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), the writer, filmmaker, opinion leader with bluntness and 'enfant terrible' of French literature. The evening will feature a discussion with writer and psychologist Marte Kaan, theatre maker Julie Cafmeyer and film scholar Patricia Pisters. Click here for
- [Waanzin Festival with Patricia Pisters](https://filmstudies.nl/waanzin-festival/) - On Saturday September 16th from 12.30-5.00pm (doors open at 12pm) the philosopical Waanzin Festival will be held in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht. Film scholar Patricia Pisters is one of the speakers. Click here for more info and tickets (in Dutch).
- [Film and Conversation Ararat](https://filmstudies.nl/film-and-conversation-ararat/) - 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
- [The Poetics of Fragility](https://filmstudies.nl/the-poetics-of-fragility/) - 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
- [EYE International Conference 2017](https://filmstudies.nl/eye-international-conference-2017/) - 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
- [Geo Mediations Symposium](https://filmstudies.nl/geo-mediations-symposium/) - 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
- [UvA Researchlab: The Extended City Symphony](https://filmstudies.nl/uva-researchlab-the-extended-city-symphony/) - 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). Click here
- [Screening Memory: The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan](https://filmstudies.nl/943-2/) - Film Faculty member Marie-Aude Baronian has published a new book, Screening Memory: The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan. Atom Egoyan, a Canadian of Armenian origin, is a prolific filmmaker and visual artist, having created a number of feature films, short films, video installations, and more. His extensive, dense, and multifaceted oeuvre, which delves into questions
- [Special film screenings in Kriterion on Fashion and Film](https://filmstudies.nl/special-film-screenings-in-kriterion-on-fashion-and-film/) - 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.
- [symposium 'The Costume of the Future'](https://filmstudies.nl/symposium-the-costume-of-the-future/) - 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
- [Béla Tarr & Jacques Rancière](https://filmstudies.nl/bela-tarr-jacques-ranciere/) - 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
- [Tjarda de Haan Guest Lecture: The Reconstruction of the Digital City](https://filmstudies.nl/tjarda-de-haan-guest-lecture-the-reconstruction-of-the-digital-city/) - 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
- [Research project SEMIA receives NWO grant](https://filmstudies.nl/research-project-semia-receives-nwo-grant/) - The research project The Sensory Moving Image Archive (SEMIA). Boosting Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research is one of the seven projects that will receive funding by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) within the research program Smart Culture - Arts and Culture. SEMIA aims to develop a search method that allows artists and researchers to search digitized heritage collections based
- [Metropolitan Museum Collection Online Available](https://filmstudies.nl/metropolitan-museum-collection-online-available/) - The Metropolitan Museum in New York has made its entire collection available online under the Creative Commons License, which means that the images in the collection are free of use as long as it concerns non-profit use. The images can be used for many (academic) purposes. Visit the MET collection
- [Film&Science 2017 - Illusions: Trick & Treat your sight](https://filmstudies.nl/filmscience-2017-illusions-trick-treat-your-sight/) - 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
- [Vacancy for Curator Side Programming at Imagine Film Festival](https://filmstudies.nl/vacancy-for-curator-side-programming-at-imagine-film-festival/) - Imagine, the annual festival for fantastic film in the Netherlands that this year takes place from 12-22 April, 2017, in Amsterdam EYE, is looking for a curator (0,1 fte) for the festival's side programming. Check the vacancy here (only in Dutch).
- [This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice](https://filmstudies.nl/this-is-film-film-heritage-in-practice/) - 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)
- [NALACS Thesis Award in film theatre Rialto](https://filmstudies.nl/nalacs-thesis-award/) - 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.
- [Communication & Media Studies at UvA 2nd worldwide in QS Ranking](https://filmstudies.nl/communication-media-studies-at-uva-2nd-worldwide-in-qs-ranking/) - The UvA has surged to 2nd place amongst universities worldwide in Communication & Media Studies, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject published on Wednesday, 8 March 2017. Last year, the UvA placed 6th for this subject. With a total of 19 subjects listed in the top 50, the UvA is the highest
- [DocuDoka on the encounters between tourists and refugees](https://filmstudies.nl/docudoka-on-the-encounters-between-tourists-and-refugees/) - 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
- [Screening of 'Metalepsis in Black'](https://filmstudies.nl/screening-of-metalepsis-in-black/) - 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
- [Rise and Shine! This Must be Happiness - Research Lab UvA+Piet Zwart](https://filmstudies.nl/rise-and-shine-this-must-be-happiness-research-lab-uvapiet-zwart/) - 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
- [World Premiere Emerald Transmutations](https://filmstudies.nl/world-premiere-emerald-transmutations/) - 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
- [Programme IFFR 2017 Now Available](https://filmstudies.nl/programme-iffr-2017-now-available/) - 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
- [International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language](https://filmstudies.nl/international-symposium-on-figurative-thought-and-language/) - Film Team member, Charles Forceville, will give a plenary lecture, entitled "Literal and Metaphoric / Metonymic FORCE Schemes in Animation Films," at the 3rd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language, to be held from 26-28 April 2017 at the University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia. Click here for more information about the conference.
- [SOUNDS OF SILENCE FESTIVAL 3RD EDITION](https://filmstudies.nl/sounds-of-silence-festival-3rd-edition/) - 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. Click here for more information.
- [Film Event on 'The Jewish identity'](https://filmstudies.nl/film-event-the-jewish-identity/) - On Sunday January 22nd from 2.30-4pm the Joods Cultureel Kwartier (JHM) organizes a film afternoon on 'The Jewish Identity. The main film of the afternoon is the 'mockumentary' Zelig (1983) by Woody Allen. This fictional documentary highlights the life and period of Leonard Zelig (played by Woody Allen), the 'human chameleon', whose overwhelming desire to
- [Special Film Screening of Reasonable Doubt](https://filmstudies.nl/special-film-screening-of-reasonable-doubt/) - On Wednesday 18 January 2017 at 4pm, EYE Filmmuseum presents the latest film by cultural theorist and critic Mieke Bal. Reasonable Doubt (2016) is an experiment to audio-visualise ‘thought’. Mixing docu-drama with theoretical fiction, the project stages scenes from the lives of philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) and the Swedish Queen Kristina (1626-1689). The screening is
- [Focus. Shadow Drawings, Trick Films and Science Fictions](https://filmstudies.nl/focus-shadow-drawings-trick-films-and-science-fictions/) - The British filmmaker Simon Pummell recently donated his short films to EYE. Pummell is a lecturer at the Piet Zwart Institute who became internationally known with his surrealistic animated films. On January 17th in EYE, Patricia Pisters will interview Pummell, followed by the screening of his latest film Identicals. Visit the EYE website for more info&
- [First DocuDoka in 2017 focuses on impact of voluntourism](https://filmstudies.nl/docudoka4/) - We are proud to announce that we, the Film Studies Division of the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, have become an official partner of DocuDoka, a bimonthly film and discusison night in Doka (Volkshotel Amsterdam) that explores the adverse effects of globalization. Every two months (usually the last Thursday of that month) an
- [IFFR Short Film 2017](https://filmstudies.nl/iffr-short-film-2017/) - As a central part of International Film Festival Rotterdam, IFFR Short Film is a unique showcase of artists’ moving image and experimental film for works under 60 minutes. Shown on a variety of formats from 3D to 35mm film, it is a celebration of all forms of film and video. The 2017 edition of IFFR
- [New Internship at Media Agency 87 Seconds](https://filmstudies.nl/new-internship-at-87-seconds/) - Digital media agency 87 Seconds is looking for an intern in Business Development to join their Dutch team based in Amsterdam in early 2017 (January-May). 87 Seconds has specialized in the creation of short and catchy explanation videos, which can be used for different communication purposes, such as increasing visibility or facilitating comprehension of internal
- [New DocuDoka film and discussion night on child sex tourism](https://filmstudies.nl/new-docudoka-film-and-discussion-night-on-child-sex-tourism/) - On Friday, December 2nd, DocuDoka will host the third edition of their bimonthly film and discussion series in creative night bar Doka, located in the basement of the Volkshotel in Amsterdam. The central question of the night will be: why is child sex tourism so difficult to prevent? This question will be addressed by screening two new
- [Meet in the Middle](https://filmstudies.nl/meet-in-the-middle/) - On Saturday November 5, 2016, Marie-Aude Baronian, Director of the MA Film studies, will be a speaker at the symposium Meet in the Middle: Stations of Migration and Memory Between Art and Film. In the context of a retrospective on the video installations of filmmaker Atom Egoyan (at the MacKenzie museum) and an Armenian film series
- [ICONOCLASM: BEELDENSTORM AND BEYOND](https://filmstudies.nl/iconoclasm-beeldenstorm-and-beyond/) - This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Beeldenstorm, the wave of iconoclasm that swept over the Low Countries in 1566. This defining moment in Netherlandish history will be commemorated with a two-day symposium ICONOCLASM: BEELDENSTORM AND BEYOND, which will consider the Beeldenstorm in relation to iconoclasm as a global phenomenon. The symposium will be held on 9
- [Video Essay Published in [In]Transition](https://filmstudies.nl/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 (...)
- [Book launch of Thomas Elsaesser’s new book](https://filmstudies.nl/book-launch-of-thomas-elsaessers-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
- [Patricia Pisters Wins Louis Hartlooper Award](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Pllek Going Places | Afrolijk](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Filming for the Future nominated for Louis Hartlooper Prize for Best Film Publication 2016](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania](https://filmstudies.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
- [New Short Animation from HKU Students](https://filmstudies.nl/new-short-animation-from-hku-students/) - Students of the HKU completed a short animation about 'places' under the supervision of Film Team member Charles Forceville. Here you can find the film.
- [NEW ISSUE OF NECSUS OUT NOW](https://filmstudies.nl/new-issue-of-necsus-out-now/) - The new issue of NECSUS on small data is out. The issue, featuring a contribution by Film Faculty member Wim Staat, can be fully accessed online at necsus-ejms.org. The article by Staat can be found here. Access the new issue of NECSUS here.
- [On Teaching: The Cinematic City](https://filmstudies.nl/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](https://filmstudies.nl/summer-film-school-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
- [Acting Locally: Regional Media and the Pedagogical Mission](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Conference on Urban Latin America and the Caribbean](https://filmstudies.nl/nalacs-tu-delft-international-conference/) - 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
- [Launch DocuDoka with the Dutch premiere of Gringo Trails](https://filmstudies.nl/launch-docu-doka-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
- [ROTTERDAM CLASSICS on Wednesday June 8th](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Dutch Pre-premiere of Welcome to the Smiling Coast at Pllek](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [New issue of Cine-Files with Contribution by Patricia Pisters](https://filmstudies.nl/new-issue-of-cine-files-with-contribution-by-patricia-pisters/) - The new issue of Cine-Files on (post-)cinematic effect is out. The issue, featuring a contribution by Film Faculty member Patricia Pisters, can be fully accessed online at thecine-files.com. The article by Pisters can be found here. Access the new issue of Cine-Files here.
- [Face Down in Noir: The Body in the Pool](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Seminar Nouchka van Brakel - A Female Point of View](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Summer School Film Criticism](https://filmstudies.nl/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
- [Program Filmisreal Online](https://filmstudies.nl/program-filmisreal-7-online/) - From April 14-18, 2016, the 7th edition of Filmisreal will be held at Ketelhuis, with films by Israeli and Palestinian makers and a special focus on films from Israel. The full program of the festival is now online at www.filmisreal.com. In Filmhuis Den Haag the festival begins this year on Saturday, April 9th, with screenings
- [Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film Out Now](https://filmstudies.nl/post-cinema-theorizing-21st-century-film-out-now/) - The editied volume Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda) is out. A web-based version of the book went online today. It will soon be followed by several other open-acess formats for ebook readers and the like. Check the book here online. If cinema and television, as the dominant media of
- [Symposium Fashion & Philosophy](https://filmstudies.nl/symposium-fashion-philosophy/) - A joint initiative by Jacques Serrano and Film faculty member Marie-Aude Baronian, the symposium Fashion & Philosophy will bring together various academics, philosophers, artists and fashion professionals to explore the connection between fashion and philosophy. Please find here the program of the Fashion & Philosophy symposium that will be held in Amsterdam on April 22
- [Panel 'National cinema labels: do or don’t?' at Filmisreal](https://filmstudies.nl/filmisreal2/) - During Filmisreal 7 there will be three panel discussions that offer a deepening of the film progam. Film faculty member, Gerwin van der Pol, will join the first panel, entitled 'National cinema labels: do or don’t?' This panel will look at the relationship between the concept 'national cinema' and the collective memory of a nation,
- [Student master classes and films at Movies that Matter](https://filmstudies.nl/student-master-classes-and-films-at-movies-that-matter/) - This Friday, March 18th, the Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague will start. The festival shows films on human rights and also organizes debates, talk shows and exhibitions. The involvement of students and young filmmakers is of great importance for the festival. For this reason, there will be master classes with experienced filmmakers (MTM
- [African Premiere of Welcome to the Smiling Coast at AfricanBamba](https://filmstudies.nl/african-premiere-of-welcome-to-the-smiling-coast-at-africanbamba/) - Tomorrow, Thursday March 3rd, Welcome to the Smiling Coast, the documentary produced by Film Faculty member Emiel Martens, will be screened at the AfricanBamba Human Rights Film Festival in Dakar, Senegal. After the world premiere at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles last month, tomorrow's 7pm showing at Centre Culturel Jacques Chirac in
- [Interview with Patricia Pisters in Folia](https://filmstudies.nl/interview-with-patricia-pisters-in-folio/) - Today, an interview with Film Faculty member Patricia Pisters has been published in Folia, the weekly magazine of the University of Amsterdam: 'Film scholar Patricia Pisters investigates the intersection of film studies and neuroscience. The director of the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis coined the term neuro-thriller for a new type of thrillers which works
- [The Secret of the Coen Brothers](https://filmstudies.nl/the-secret-of-the-coen-brothers/) - A film by the Coen brothers is easily recognizable. The Big Lebowski, Fargo, No Country for Old Men and the new Hail Caesar! - it does not matter which genres the directors mix together, they are unmistakably Coen brothers movies. But what is it exactly that makes them like that? And how do the two filmmakers
- [Book Launch and Seminar 'Exposing the Film Apparatus'](https://filmstudies.nl/book-launch-and-seminar-exposing-the-film-apparatus/) - On March 11th, 2016, the book Exposing the Film Apparatus - The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory will be launched at an international seminar in EYE. The book was compiled by Giovanna Fossati and Annie van den Oever and consists of a collection of essays on historical and contemporary film equipment and media technologies.
- [New essay on the neurothriller in Aeon](https://filmstudies.nl/new-essay-on-the-neurothriller-in-aeon/) - Today a new essay by Film Faculty member Patricia Pisters has been published in Aeon, a digital magazine of ideas and culture. The essay is entitled 'Neurothriller' and deals with the question why and how horror films are nowadays much more scary than they were in the past. Read the entire essay here.
- [Welcome to the Smiling Coast on its way to Los Angeles](https://filmstudies.nl/welcome-to-the-smiling-coast-on-its-way-to-los-angeles/) - The documentary Welcome to the Smiling Coast: Living in the Gambia Ghetto is selected for the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF), the largest black film festival in the United States. The film, produced by Film Studies faculty member Emiel Martens, receives its world premiere at the festival, which will be held from February 4-15 in
- [Ways of Seeing in Theatre De Nieuwe Regentes](https://filmstudies.nl/ways-of-seeing/) - After a great success in Korzo last December, Ensemble Modelo62 will present Ways of Seeing in Theatre De Nieuwe Regentes in The Hague on February 7th at 17:00, during the Sounds of Silence Festival for silent film and live music. Ways of Seeing is a program of four works by different composers where sight, next
- [Film Screening of Simondon of the Desert](https://filmstudies.nl/simondon-of-the-desert/) - On Wednesday February 24 at 4pm the film Simondon of the Desert (2012, 110 min.) will be screened for the first time in the Netherlands, in the presence of filmmaker François Lagarde and philosopher Pascal Chabot. The screening, which will be held at the Universiteitstheater (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1012 CP Amsterdam), will be followed by a
- [Special Issue on Caribbean Cinema Now Available](https://filmstudies.nl/special-issue-on-caribbean-cinema-now-available/) - Today, after five years or so in the making, the special issue on contemporary Caribbean cinema has been published in the open access Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. The issue consists of a combination of interviews and critical essays that provides a diverse and necessarily eclectic glimpse into recent developments in Caribbean cinema. Film Studies
- [Dutch premiere of El botón de nácar in De Balie](https://filmstudies.nl/dutch-premiere-of-el-boton-de-nacar-in-de-balie/) - Friday January 15th Cinéart in collaboration with NALACS and Fiesta Latinoamericana will host the Dutch premiere of the award-winning Chilean documentary El botón de nácar (The Pearl Button, 2015) directed by Patricio Guzmán. The film will be screened at 21.00 hrs in De Balie in Amsterdam, after which there will be space to talk, network and dance in the bar area. In El botón de nácar,
- [Indian Film Festival in The Hague from 7-14 October 2015](https://filmstudies.nl/indian-film-festival-the-hague-7th-14th-october-2015/) - Film Studies faculty member Dr. Maryn Wilkinson to introduce Bandit Queen (dir. Kapur, 1994) on 13th October at 18:45 hrs. A palette of a billion, timeless stories presented in reel time. The Indian Film Festival The Hague is the finest celebration of Indian film and cultural arts, entertaining audiences with colour, personalities and emotions. Fantasy and
- [Charles Forceville to give Plenary Lecture at International Conference in Poland](https://filmstudies.nl/charles-forceville-to-give-plenary-lecture-at-the-international-conference-on-communication-styles/) - Film Studies faculty member Dr. Charles Forceville will give a plenary lecture in October at the “International Conference on Communication Styles” Philological Faculty, Krosno State College, Krosno, Poland (org. Dorota Brzozowska & Władysław Chłopicki).
- [Catherine Grant lecture on Thursday 26 November 2015](https://filmstudies.nl/catherine-grant-lecture-thursday-26-november-2015/) - “Dissolves of Passion”? Materially thinking through editing in digital videographic film and moving image studies Thursday 26 November 2015, 17.00 – 19.00, OMHP D 0.09 Focusing on a number of videographic explorations of matters of film editing (including several of her own), Grant’s talk will ask what such practical, digital and audiovisual modes of research
- [EYE participates in MoMA’s To Save and Project Festival](https://filmstudies.nl/eye-participates-in-momas-to-save-and-project-festival/) - The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has invited EYE to compile two special film programmes for the annual MoMA Festival of Preservation. To Save and Project is an international film festival showcasing recently preserved and restored film works from November 4 through 25. To Save and Project: the 13th MoMA International Festival
- [First copy of Filming for the Future handed over to Van Gasteren](https://filmstudies.nl/first-copy-of-filming-for-the-future-handed-over-to-van-gasteren/) - Yesterday the first copies of Filming for the Future - The Work of Louis van Gasteren by Patricia Pisters were handed over to Van Gasteren and NFF director Willemien van Aalst at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Filming for the Future is the first book about the work of Van Gasteren, one of Dutch most prolific filmmakers. Writer Patricia
- [Special guest Errol Morris at IDFA: “Reality is a collective hunch”](https://filmstudies.nl/498-2/) - By Bram Overbeeke and Nataša van de Laar, students at the Research Master in Media Studies. Last Friday, November 20th, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) hosted American filmmaker Errol Morris for a masterclass in a fully packed Tuschinski theatre. The festival's central guest discussed his work and his ideas on documentary film with moderator and
- [Film Studies student wins Science in the City Award](https://filmstudies.nl/science-in-the-city-award/) - Film Studies student Mashya Boon has won the Science in the City Award for her master's thesis Cinematic Clones, Illusive Identities and Mercurial Memories (Master Film, UvA, 2015). The jury consisted of Erik Scherder, Liza Mügge (UvA) en Felix Rottenberg. For more information on the website of Science in the City, click here. For an interview
- [Vintage: 8th issue of Necsus now online](https://filmstudies.nl/vintage-8th-issue-of-necsus-now-online/) - The 8th issue of Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies on 'vintage' is now online! The issue fearues a special section that is guest edited by Kim Knowles. You are able to read and download all contributions in Open Access at www.necsus-ejms.org. Editorial Necsus 'Vintage is everywhere. Ranging from vintage design to vintage cloths and
- [This is Film! Lectures on exceptional film restorations and film heritage projects](https://filmstudies.nl/this-is-filmlectures-on-exceptional-film-restorations-and-film-heritage-projects/) - From February 4 to March 10, EYE and the University of Amsterdam present This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, a series of public lectures at EYE reflecting on exceptional film restorations and film heritage projects. Giovanna Fossati (Chief Curator at EYE and Professor of Film Heritage at the UvA) addresses, in the course of
- [PhD defense and expo opening 'The Webcam as an Emerging Cinematic Medium'](https://filmstudies.nl/phd-defense-and-expo-opening-the-webcam-as-an-emerging-cinematic-medium/) - The Webcams as an Emerging Cinematic Medium is the title of the first PhD in Artistic Research involving a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. This research combines theory and art practice to analyse video surveillance as form of filmmaking and the consequent impact on processes of subjectification in urban
- [The Lima Collection](https://filmstudies.nl/the-lima-collection/) - Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens will be the next guest curators in THE LIMA COLLECTION series. On September 15, the artist duo will give an insight into the relationship between media art and cinema. In this screening series, the various (hi)stories of the LIMA collection and media art are being told with a focus on the main recurrent
- [Chromatic worlds of silent cinema: Conference at Eye March 28-31](https://filmstudies.nl/chromatic-worlds-of-silent-cinema-conference-at-eye-march-28-31/) - Twenty years on from the groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film, this conference will celebrate this milestone anniversary by providing a new forum to explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent era. The conference will explore a diverse range of archival and academic topics and provide a stimulating
- [This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice](https://filmstudies.nl/test-event/) - From 12 February to 19 March, EYE and the University of Amsterdam are presenting a series of public lectures on film restoration at EYE. Each lecture is accompanied by film screenings. The lectures can be followed as a series or individually. EYE is renowned around the world for its film restoration work. In conversation with
- [Cross Media: Scientific Images](https://filmstudies.nl/cross-media-scientific-images/) - Departing from the "scientific image", the three sessions of this semester will focus on the function of the image and its transformation as a resource in visualization, translation, control, manipulation and commodification. These functions, linked variably through history with knowledge production, expanded into fields as diverse as landscape painting, brain visualization, documentary film, and forensic
- [Lav Diaz presents two of his latest films](https://filmstudies.nl/film-file/) - Screening and Q&A Golden Leopard Winner From What Is Before (December 7th 13.00) and Storm Children (December 8th 21.30) and Q&A with Lav Diaz, one of the 2014 Prince Claus Laureates. Immerse yourself in Lav Diaz’s groundbreaking cinema. Storm Children delves into the aftermath of the the deadly Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in November 2013. Freight ships thrown from

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- [Caridad Lorenzo](https://filmstudies.nl/caridad-lorenzo/) - When explaining why I chose to study an MA in Film Studies at the University fo Amsterdam, a mix of personal and professional arguments come together, all bound by an intense enthusiasm that holds my decision together. I’ve been a film buff ever since I can remember, an obsessive one. When I chose to study
- [Asja Makarević](https://filmstudies.nl/asja-makarevic/) - Before arriving to Amsterdam, I had worked four years as a project manager of the Sarajevo Talent Campus, an educational and training platform of the Sarajevo Film Festival. This programme, commenced in collaboration with Berlinale Talent Campus and Berlin International Film Festival, invites every year 60 emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe to a seven-day intensive
- [Aldo van Keulen](https://filmstudies.nl/aldo-van-keulen/) - He looks back over his shoulder, eyes filled with disappointment, for the television screen did not respond to his touch. On the small table next to him rests the small flip-book we made a couple of days earlier at the Eye Film Museum. I remember having such a booklet as a kid, it showed a
- [EYE Film Club](https://filmstudies.nl/our-eye-film-club/) - The Film Studies faculty runs a Film Club which, during the semesters on Tuesday mornings, screens films at EYE that are related to our courses. These screenings always start with an introduction (in Dutch) by a faculty member (and are sometimes followed by a discussion afterwards, also in Dutch). With these screenings we aim to

## Professors

- [Hemen Heidari](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/hemen-heidari/) - Cinematic body and memory Virtual reality (VR) films Iranian cinema Photography and/in cinema Uva profile
- [Lotte Manders](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/lotte-manders/) - Non-human animal studies Film-philosophy Media archaeology Eroticism and cinema Transgression, abjection, affect Feminist and queer film studies Frankfurt School, media, and the culture industry UvA profile
- [Halbe Kuipers](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/halbe-kuipers/) - Film–philosophy (particularly Deleuzian thought) Cosmologies and cosmopolitics Media theory and aesthetics Experimental, essayistic, and non-narrative cinema Ecological, animist, and postcolonial approaches to film and media Uva profile
- [Cecilie Levy](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/cecilie-levy/) - Artistic research in film and media, with a strong emphasis on screenwriting as research Virtual Reality (VR) and immersive media Experimental, interactive and non-linear storytelling Emotional, moral, and embodied audience experience in audiovisual works Uva profile
- [Charles Forceville](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/charles-forceville/) - Visual & multimodal metaphor/discourse Narrative & argumentation across media Relevance theory and visuals Documentary, animation, comics Cognitivist film studies Research bridging academia and the real world Uva Profile Not available for thesis supervision in 2025-2026.
- [Jacob Engelberg](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/jacob-engelberg/) - Queer and bisexual approaches to cinema Feminist film theory Sex media Early cinema Film theory Critical theory Uva profile
- [Marie-Aude Baronian](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/marie-aude-baronian/) - Memory, testimony and archives Film-philosophy French thought (Levinas, Derrida) Material objects and material culture Fashion, textile and design Armenian diasporic cinema and art Uva profile
- [Wiebe Copman](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/wiebe-copman/) - Avant-garde and experimental cinema Contemporary art and the moving image Artist’s film and video Media archaeology Maintenance and care Autobiography and autoethnography UvA profile
- [Nadica Denić](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/nadica-denic/) - Documentary Film-philosophy (in particular film ethics) Postcolonial cinema studies (in particular concerning migration Production studies Uva profile
- [Catherine Lord](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/catherine-lord/) - Film aesthetics Film and psychoanalysis, particularly feminist and queer psychoanalysis Environmental humanities, including ecopsychoanalysis Film and psychoanalysis, particularly feminist and queer psychoanalysis Adaptations: literature-to-film and film-to-literature Frankfurt School, media, and the culture industry UvA profile
- [Blandine Joret](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/blandine-joret/) - Francophone film culture Cinephilia, Emancipatory (film) education and critical pedagogy Ecopedagogy Film communities World cinema UvA profile
- [Emiel Martens](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/emiel-martens/) - Postcolonial film and media studies Popular geopolitics Film (and) tourism Audiovisual industries (production, industry, policy) Film histories of the Global South Caribbean and particularly Jamaican cinema Humanitarian communication Alternative and activist media Creative and cultural entrepreneurship Film-based research / research-based filmmaking UvA profile
- [Tjalling Valdés Olmos](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/tjalling-valdes-olmos/) - Critical theory and cultural analysis (genre, affect) Theories of race, sexuality, class, and gender Representations of space (hinterlands / peripheries / non-urban geographies) (Settler) colonial and decolonial aesthetics Indigeneity and globalization Speculative history, critical fabulation, cultural memory UvA profile
- [Asli Ozgen](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/asli-ozgen/) - Postcolonial and decolonial thought Film history and archives Critical intersectionality and feminist theory Migration, displacement and media Film and/as politics UvA profile
- [Sara Gelao](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/sara-gelao/) - Film-philosophy Film, imagination and spirituality Philosophy of technology Critical and cultural theory Experimental (poetic) cinema UvA profile
- [Alexander Pablo Muller](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/alexander-pablo-muller/) - Aesthetic and political philosophy (identity, subject formation, time and space) Critical theory Film and media theory Psychoanalysis Experimental cinema and contemporary art Uva profile
- [Jacopo Barbero](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/jacopo-barbero/) - Film aesthetics Geopolitics and (trans)national cinemas Cities and cinema Film theory and philosophy Film history Chinese cinema(s), especially Mainland China and Hong Kong Uva profile
- [Johana Kotišová](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/johana-kotisova/) - Crisis reporting Documentation of conflicts Media professionals’ safety Media professionals' emotional labour and mental well-being Ethnography and interviewing Uva profile
- [Slava Greenberg](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/slava-greenberg/) - Disability Film Studies (Crip and Mad Theories) Transgender Film Studies Feminist and Transfeminist Film Theory Animation Theory Documentary Film-Philosophy (Phenomenology, Affect, and Frankfurt School) UvA profile
- [Michael Thomas](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/michael-thomas/) - Black aesthetics Social aesthetics Media and representation Philosophy of race Social and political philosophy Uva profile
- [Özgür Çiçek](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/ozgur-cicek/) - National and transnational cinemas ‘Minor’ cinemas, particularly Kurdish cinema Audiovisual heritage and memory studies Documentary filmmaking and instable archives Film aesthetics Uva profile
- [Emily Clark](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/emily-clark/) - Music and sound Ethnographic methods Colonial history, migration and diaspora Audiovisual archives Anthropology/history of the senses Representations of culture and nature Uva profile
- [Amir Vudka](https://filmstudies.nl/professors/amir-vudka/) - Cinema and war Philosophy of technology Media pathologies Spectral/haunted media Techgnosis Posthumanism AI Uva profile
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