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.
Preview The Garden
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The Garden (Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2008)
Sometimes real life is more dramatic than a strong story. A good reason to watch some documentaries breathlessly.
The Garden (Hamilton Kennedy, 2008) is a good example for such a documentary. The location is a plot of land (5,5 hectares) in South Central Los Angeles. The municipality dispossessed the plot to build a combustion furnace. Because of successful resistance by the local community this plan was cancelled. After the 1993’s riots in Los Angeles the municipality lend the plot of land for a ‘community garden’. The poorest inhabitants could grow their own food en make life easier. The South Central Gardners – mainly Latino’s with an agricultural background – transformed it in a decade into a pleasure-garden with papaja’s, corn and lemon. This idea appeared to be very successful: the project became the biggest ‘urban gardening’-project in the US.
But, in 2003 the former owner claimed the ground. The American law says that if the plot was not used for the original aim – in this case a furnace – the former owner can repurchase it. This results in an extraordinary process with roles for a weak politician (she was later even re-elected!), the hostile community of concerned citizens, the desperate gardners, fundraising movie stars, an angry judge and an indignant owner. The documentary portraits not only the rise of the community garden. It also shows that several communities are capable to sway their destiny. The communities are fruitful soil for politicians as well for rivalry between groups.
The Garden (Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2008) is screened at AFFR2009.
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19.06.2010
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