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.
Perfect Overvecht
an ode to the gallery entrance flat
by Marina van den Bergen
The gallery flats were build in the sixties throughout the Netherlands at a fast and inexpensive way to end the severe housing shortage. The flats never had a good reputation.
In our village they were build very symbolic at the edge of the village. The inhabitants were considered trash by my parents. Which was not really the case, I learned later on in life: a boy from my class lived there he was okay. Not only were the people branded social, living in a high flat you could also mentally ill. The condition was even given a proper name, flat neurosis. In the decades that followed, despite furious attempts, the flats and its inhabitants never acquired a better image. Paradoxically the many well-meaning attempts and the failures that followed confirmed the negative image. And if the belief in social engineering has disappeared, demolish is the panacea.
Perfect Day is a short film by Neeltje ten Westenend made in collaboration with Henriette Waal. The direct object is a standard gallery flat in Utrecht Overvecht. People come home back from work, the lush greenery surrounding the public apartment is well maintained by people from the park service, trash is being collected, people are walking their dogs, there is no litter or graffiti to be seen. At first glance there seems nothing wrong with the building and its inhabitants. But the municipality, the housing association and the residents association have a different view. They note that in the flat, where as many people live as in a big suburb, is a lack of social cohesion. They join forces and organize a days where residents ‘can do things together’ and ‘where people can learn from other cultures’. Therefore Tuincentrum Overvecht gives out free plants for the balconies and the shrubberies around the flat, there are games for children, women give a demonstration in Turkish folk dances and an Antillean brass band from Rotterdam provides for additional summer touch. A handful of residents are watching from their balconies. Despite all good intentions, only the organizers seem to participate in the activities. A little further is the carcass of a flat strip visible, a grim picture of what the gallery flat and its inhabitants is waiting.
Perfect Day (Neeltje ten Westenen & Henriette Waal, 2008 ) is screened on AFFR2009.
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19.06.2010
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