08.03.2010
Soon in Amsterdam
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.
12.12.2009
Film on TV
. Sunday December 13 at 18.25 on Dutch TV Ned.2: the TV premiere of Oscar Niemeyer – La vida es un sopro, one of the hits of AFFR 2009.
23.11.2009
Films on DVD?
We receive many questions about the availability of films screened at AFFR2009, for public screenings or for private DVD purchases.
01.11.2009
Garbage Warrior
So far, the movie Garbage Warrior (Oliver Hodge, 2007) is one of the audience favorite. The film runs Sunday, November 1 again.
31.10.2009
Snakebit
The secret preview
by Rita Brons
Snakebit is made for American public television, but has not been aired. AFFR is therefore even more proud that the movie is to prepremiere in the Netherlands. The movie is eagerly awaited for months by many fans. Sam Wainwright Douglas, the director is one of the special guests on the AFFR.
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.
Click on the titles for more infor or look at one of the trailers here:
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 »
Thank you!
Foundation laid for an international platform for architecture and film festivals.
Foundation laid for international platform for architectural and film festivals
The fifth edition of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) is over… This year the event has put itself for good on the international cultural map. Programming 120 movies, city tours and talk shows, the festival managed to triple its visitors compared to previous editions. This goal – to promote interest in architecture – was largely achieved. This weekend was also the foundation for close cooperation with ten film festivals architecture at European and even world level.
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Talkshow #3
Sunday November 1 Jord den Hollander had a talk with designers Parthesius and Beate Lendt in the foyer of Cinerama. Parthesius puts down his glass of champagne to talk about his world premiere of the film Movements Continued and Beate Lendt screens two of her films in this festival: Next 21 and Louis Le Roy. (Interview with Beate Lendt – click ‘more’)
(in dutch)
Biketour
Despite the bad weather there was a great interest in Planning Disasters Biketour in Rotterdam today.
Photo Frank Hanswijk
Talkshow #2
Saturday, October 31 Jord den Hollander had a talk with architect Herman Hertzberger and director Kees Hin in the foyer of Cinerama. Hertzberger and Hin tell about their new film Ik zag ruimte.
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29.10.2009
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23.10.2009
Filmposters
Check out the filmposters here and tell us which one is the best! Read more »
