08.03.2010

Soon in Amsterdam

Screening of ‘an opportunity to build’ (1985) by Rob Klaasman and Maarten Kloos.

06.03.2010

And the winner is….

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Nominated for the best bedroom: Sherlock Holmes

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 »

03.02.2010

Infinite Space on TV

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.

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

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

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?

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.

The AFFR has begun!

Plurality in the Indian context

by Anneke Abhelakh

Cities such as Mumbai and Delhi grow by half a million people a year. This is thirty-four people an hour and approximately one new inhabitant every two minutes. In the largest democracy in the world with more than 1 billion inhabitants, hundreds of different languages are spoken and at least as many Hindu gods are worshiped, alongside many Buddhist gods, Christian saints, the prophet Mohammed and all the elementary forces of nature. In addition, the cast system still exists alongside its abolition and, socially and culturally, many nuances in clothing and eating habits are evident in each region and in towns and villages. In the north the country is surrounded by mountains and rivers and on all the other sides by the ocean. The climate, notably the monsoon and the position of the moon, are of great influence on the daily lives and the psyche of the inhabitants.

Exhibition about the past and the future of Cinerama

by Martijn Oskam

The art-house cinema Cinerama disappears from its current location. Lantaren / Venster is going to be relocated at the Kop van Zuid. It is going to be empty in the center of Rotterdam. The AFFR will be held in the cinema at the West Blaak for the last time, which is a good opportunity to pay attention to the building and the history and future of cinema. During the festival there is a digital exhibition and there are free ‘behind the screens’ tours.

Photo Frank Hanswijk

The Architecture of John Lautner

by Jan-Richard Kikkert

The houses designed by American architect John Lautner (1911-1994) are more famous than himself. Because most of his spectacular and photogenic homes are located in the heart of the American Film industry his designs play an important part in famous movies. The Chemosphere (Malin) is referred to as one of the central characters in Brian De Palma’s Body Double. Who does not remember how Sean Connery is taken care of by Bambi and Thumper in the Elrod house, or how Mel Gibson pulls the Garcia House from the mountain slope with his pick-up truck. And of course the Dude who ends up unconscious with his face on the glass table in the home of Jackie Treehorn. Because the shot was taken from under the table, the fantastic roof of the Sheats-Goldstein residence is seen with its hundreds embedded drinking glasses that create a starry sky.