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).
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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 both artistic and academic projects will be presented during an evening program consisting of lectures, debates, performances, and film screenings. In this edition, Professor of Film Patricia Pisters (Media Studies, University of Amsterdam) shows how art translates subjective experiences that take place in our brain.
Call for Papers 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), a programme of the Department of Media Studies in collaboration with EYE Filmmuseum, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, the Living Media Arts foundation, and others. The call for papers is open en the deadline of submissions is 15 November 2017.
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Waanzin Festival with Patricia Pisters
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.
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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.
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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 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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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 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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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 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.
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 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 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 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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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).
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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.
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Screening Memory: The Prosthetic Images of Atom Egoyan
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 of heritage, alienation, loss, family, and traumatic history, has continually focused on the relationship between image and memory. While cinema and memory are inextricably bound (films register time, and filmic images are inscribed into our memories), Egoyan’s work takes up this assumption, questioning and complicating the nature of the relationship. Whether it is the relation between memory and audiovisual technology, memory and the Armenian Catastrophe, or memory and diaspora, it is by continually constructing and deconstructing the foundations of the image that these connections emerge. It is thus in these obsessive and repetitive dynamics that Egoyan creates and produces images, at once artificial and fragile, as prostheses of memory.
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 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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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 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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Béla Tarr & Jacques Rancière
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.
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 discuss her on-going project Reconstructing The Digital City. Open to all students and interested parties.
You can follow the event here.
Find out more about AMIA student chapter here.
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 on their visual characteristics such as light and color, shape or movement. The project’s objective is to establish a set of tools that is needed for the sensory exploration of moving images and it aims to provide a boost to the practice of users who seek to creatively repurpose collections.
Main-applicant is Giovanna Fossati, Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam (ASCA) and Chief Curator at EYE. Co-applicants are dr. Eef Masson of the University of Amsterdam (ASCA) and dr. Harry van Vliet of the Research Group Crossmedia of the University of Amsterdam of Applied Sciences.
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.
Film&Science 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 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.