16.08.2010
Piano + Metropolis
This thursday night at the Rotterdamse Open Air Cinema: the screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with live music
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.
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.
From October 29 to November 1 AFFR screened films in which architecture and the city play the leading role. There was a lively festival atmosphere in the attractive foyer of cinema Cinerama: both architectural fanatics as students and filmlovers met in the foyer, drew circles in their program magazines and talked about the films with a beer in between screenings. A full house, for both the blockbusters and lesser-known films, often selling out completely. The big hits of the festival – the ones that were chock full of visitors and judged very positively – were Infinite Space, Oscar Niemeyer and the world premiere of Herman Hertzberger: Ik zag ruimte (2009, Kees Hin). Infinite Space, a film about the glamorous buildings of the American architect John Lautner, was part of a special selection of American films, including the avant premiere of Snakebit and the opening movie Visual Acoustics. The city tours were very successful. The Rotterdam Planning Disasters biketour was particularly of a lot of interest. The bicycle guides showed the participants ‘planning disasters’ of Rotterdam. From the ‘Blunderput’ (blooperwell) the Blaakse Bos, the Peperklip to the Essalam Mosque.
Cooperation at international level
This weekend the AFFR welcomed over 30 international guests. Filmmakers and architects, but also the organizers of film festivals worldwide architecture got together. A seminar was initiated by AFFR on the opportunities to reinforce each other. With success, because AFFR 2009 is the starting year in which architecture festivals join hands at the international level to work together.
Date: 02.11.2009
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19.06.2010
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23.10.2009
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