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.
Glocal Architecture
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.
Cine drama
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
Infinite Space
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.
ALL CITY
Graffiti and architecture
by Job Floris
It is hardly surprising that architects and urban designers should nurture a secret longing for dynamism and speed. Architecture is, after all, an exasperatingly slow profession. By way of compensation, architects seek distraction in sexy, trendy things like cars, pulsating music and sleek suits. The fascination with street culture, evidenced by the films shown during this year’s Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, falls into the same category.
Shorts Berlin
Special series of short films of a divided city before and after the wall
by Ulrike Haele
The Berlin Wall is not just a symbol of the Cold War in Europe; it was also a monumental building project that entered into and remains in the psyche of the people of Berlin. The 155 kilometre-long and 3.6 metre-high border defence was the face of the GDR seen from West Berlin, while in the East it was propagated as a protective wall to keep imperialism out. The Wall split the city and its infrastructure: 192 roads and streets and three motorways were divided up, and it cut through eight railway lines and four metro lines. Over 29 years, a ‘double city’ without comparison developed back-to-back. Now, 20 years after reunification, the city authorities are busy ‘growing together’ again with innumerable building projects. The history of the Wall can still be experienced through relics scattered along a length of some three kilometres.
Tags AFFR2009
Overview of this years themes in the AFFR program. With links to the tags and films.
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The opening
Today we announce the openingsfilm and the location of the opening … drum roll …. The film Visual Acoustics (Eric Brickner, 2008) will be the opening film in the Jeugdtheater Hofplein. The film, a tribute to the recently deceased architectural photographer Julius Shulman, has already a blog post on this site. The location of the Jeugdtheater Hofplein is selected because many people (especially those without kids) do not know it. The theater is located in the impressive Technicon complex, built by Hugh Maaskant and can be recognised from the outside for its famous Karel Appel stained glass-concrete-decoration. The area around the theater and the former Hofplein railline will transform in the near future.
Program 29.10.2009
19.45 Reception
20.15 Welcome by the chairman
20.30 Opening by state minister Cramer of spatial planning
20.50 Start film Visual Acoustics (Erin Brickner, 83 ‘, 2008)
Party
There are tickets for the opening night on sale for € 15 per person. Ticket reservation starts at October 19 by mailing to specials@affr.nl stating “opening night” with the desired number of tickets. Cash payment only on the evening itself. Maximum number of ticket reservations: 4.
Get into the mood: some photos of the 2007-party can be found here.
We all love Jane
The enduring relevance of Jane Jacobs
by Jos Gadet & Wies Sanders
When the American-Canadian writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs (b. 1916) died in 2006, she enjoyed a worldwide reputation as an intellectual, analyst, moral thinker, self-taught economist and fierce critic of inflexible authorities.
Fascination of space
Interview with director Niklas Goldbach
by Ulrike Haele
The settings for his work range from the steel and glass facades of high-gloss office buildings to paradisiacal-seeming landscapes, from the ruins of an Expo pavilion just recently celebrated in the colour supplements to new uses on an inner-city wasteland. Goldbach draws out the tension of reality and fiction in his films and the result is an interweaving of personal narrative, public reception and socio-political constructs: unspectacular, irritating and beautiful at once.
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19.06.2010
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29.10.2009
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23.10.2009
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