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.
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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.
Last day Doodle Earth
Today is the last day to make sketches. Sketch along on a new image of Rotterdam in the foyer on the 1st floor of Cinerama.
Debat Duurzaamheid RTM
Vandaag is in de foyer van Cinerama een debat over duurzaamheid in Rotterdam. Cineast Jan Louter vertelt over zijn niewe film in opdracht van AiR. De architecten Dirk Jan Postel (Kraaijvanger-Urbis), Florian Boer (Urbanisten), Cesare Peeren (2012) en Maartje Lammers (24H) vertellen over hun werk. Het debat start 15:00 uur.
Frank Hanswijk
LIVING HAPPINESS IN THE POLDER
Interview with Niki Boomkens, the director of the documentary Zes meter onder NAP
by Aude-Line Duliere
Aude-Line Duliere: What were your motivations to shoot this movie?
Niki Boomkens: Every time I am on the highway, there seems to be a whole new village where there used to be cows and grass a little while ago. Holland is building its new suburbs so fast! I wanted to know more about the people deciding on how these suburbs would work and look. I was also wondering about their strategy to make the future citizens happy. In Holland we have a very innovative architectural culture. When architects usually loves that, the man on the street doesn’t always. Do the architects consider the happiness of future residents and how did they apply that? Do they even think architecture can make people happy or unhappy?
Talkshow #1
Every evening there is a talk show in the foyer of Cinerama. Jord den Hollander talk Friday, October 30 with: Sam Wainwright Douglas (director Snakebit, Mockee and spirit of the Rural Studio) and Sarah Ann Mockbee (daughter of founder Samuel Mockbee Rural Studio), Jan-Richard Kikkert and Tycho Saariste (connoisseurs of Lautner’s work and they took part in the film Infinite Space), Bo Landin (director Learning Light – The Vision of IM Pei) and Serge Seidlitz of Squint Opera and Doodle Earth.
Sarah Ann Mockbee & Sam Wainwright Douglas
Premiere I Saw Space
Long-awaited documentary about Herman Hertzberger
Herman Hertzberger (b. 1932) is without a doubt one the Netherlands’ most important architects. He has an architectural practice now for a couple of decades. This film is a survey about the essence of Hertzberger’s architecture. What determined his style? How are his ideas reflected in his architecture? How have the buildings changed, how will they change in the future?
The work of Squint Opera
Interview with Jules Cooke
by Cordula Zeidler
Squint Opera are a young company. Founded in 2002, they produce films on architecture projects and masterplans, including such diverse projects as the London Olympics and the regeneration of Jeddah. And they also have a more artistic strand: Squint Opera have created stunning hyper-real still images, such as a series of imaginary scenes of London in 2090, after water levels have risen and flooded the city. I spoke to co-founder Jules Cocke about their work, and about the challenges of communicating architecture by means of the moving image.
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19.06.2010
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23.10.2009
Filmposters
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