18.06.2010
Cinematic Rotterdam
Floris Paalman, programmeur van de Rotterdam Classics, promoveert dinsdag 22 juni op ‘Cinematic Rotterdam, the times and tides of a modern city’. Read more »
16.05.2010
Film + architectuur in Den Bosch
On May 17 onward there will be several interesting screenings in the Verkadefabriek in Den Bosch concerning architecture. This monday it’s Many words for modern of Jord den Hollander, a film screened at the 2007 edition of our AFFR festival.
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09.05.2010
Shopping malls on film
The Barbican in London organises screenings of architecture films on a regular basis. Read more »
28.04.2010
Rotterdam premiere
Living Architectures of Beka & Lemoine has its Dutch premiere on Thursday April 29, the filmmakers will be present at the screening. Make your reservation now at the NAi.
08.03.2010
The opportunity to build
Screening of ‘an opportunity to build’ (1985) by Rob Klaasman and Maarten Kloos.
06.02.2010
The Complete Metropolis
Only 200 meters missing, as the newspaper announced. In 2008 the only (almost) complete reel of Fritz Langs’ Metropolis was found. Friday Febrary 12 live on Arte TV. Read more »
02.02.2010
Oscar nomination for Logorama
Yes, we recognize the beauties, because the short animation film Logorama we screened at our festival is nominated for an Academy Award! We keep our fingers crossed for the people of H5, especially Nicolas Schmerkin.
14.01.2010
Megunica in Amsterdam
Een van de populairdere films van het AFFR 2009 was Megunica van Lorenzo Fonda (2008) over de animatie/graffitti artiest Blu. De film is zelden te zien, dus als je hem gemist hebt op ons festival, dan een hele week herkansing bij onze vrienden van SmartProjectSpace: vertoningen van 14-1 tot en met 31-1.
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20 World famous buildings selected by Ben van Berkel. The legendary ARTE DVD box for 32.99.
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Shulman on DVD
The long expected DVD of Visual Acoustics, our openingsfilm in 2009, is now available! Order it for $26.99 (ex. shipping outside the US) at the filmmakers. The DVD has some extra features: deleted scenes, additional footage, director commentary and the theatrical trailer. Please note it is a Region 1 NTSC/ DVD, not all EU players are suitable for US DVD’s.
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Environmental Filmfest
Strawberry Earth organizes for the third time the festive The Dutch Environmental Filmfestival. This year with movies about garbage and eco-business but mainly positive films such as ”a man named Pearl’ with Pearl proving that Afro Americans can design and maintain their suburban gardens perfectly. The festival takes place in Amsterdam and Rotterdam from June 3-6. DEFF
Slapstick city
Actors Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton from the silent era knew how to deal with the architecture form that time.
2 1/2 Dimensional
Exhibition in the Singel in Antwerp until May 22: ’2 1 / 2 Dimensional’. What kind of images and stories are created when architecture is no longer merely part of a larger scenario, but is in itself plot, protagonist or main actor? The films of sixteen artists quote an architecture (architecture ‘in’ the film) but emphasize the spatial experience (architecture “as” film). It is at the intersection of storytelling and imagery, two-dimensional films and three-dimensional architectural space: the ‘two and a half dimensional overlap “! An exhibition including films by Heinz Emigholz, Aurélien Froment (F), (BAN), Joachim Koester (DK), Dorit Margreiter (A), Matthias Meyer (D), Shahryar Nashat (CH), Olaf Nicolai (D), Tobias Zielony (D). In a parallel program in Cinema Zuid architecture films are screened, introduced by Steven Jacobs. Download the program booklet here.
Tom Ford & John Lautner
Seen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam: the film debut of Tom Ford, A single man.. Our AFFR delegation went for a look and we were sold after 5 minutes: Jord recognized the single man’s house as a nice John Lautner villa: the Schaffer residence. The film is about a day in the life of “A Single Man”, beautifully played by Colin Firth, whose performance was nominated for the Golden Globe. The entire film is in Tom Ford sixties style: an excellent choice of architecture and -could it be otherwise-fashion, film colouring, music, cars and beautiful people. Fortunately also some good acting and a nice scenario. A must, therefore and by the way, the house is for sale! The International Film Festival Rotterdam takes place from January 27 to February 7, 2010.
Out now: Living Architec tures
London and New York have the premiere of the four part sequence to Koolhaas Houselife, shown here as a simultanous installation in 25 minutes. The films will be released in the course of 2010 in their full glory of about 50 minutes. The new four parts of the Living Architectures series are:
X-Mas Meier, about the use of a modern church of Meier in Rome,
Pomerol, about the daily life in a vineyard in Pomerol,
Gehry’s Vertigo about the window cleaners in the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao and
Inside Piano (will be released a bit later) about the office of Piano in Italy which was an experimentation zone for the Centre Pompidou.
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Interview Eric Brickner
Eric Brickner, director of Visual Acoustics, the openingsfilm of the AFFR2009 about the architecture photographer Julius Shulman, gives an interview to Spirit of Space: ‘that was his reason to live: his work’.
Look at you!
Click here for the photos of Frank Hanswijk of the opening of AFFR 2009 in the fantastic Jouth theater Hofplein in Rotterdam.
The best of
We look back at a succesfull and colourful 2009 edition of the AFFR! About 3700 visitors saw the movies and appreciated them with an average score of 3,64 (1 being the lowest possible score, 5 the highest) and we are very proud of that! The top five AFFR-films of 2009 were… Read more »
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19.06.2010
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