January 23th to February 3rd the city will be buzzing with all things cinema again during the 48th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Header image: Bas Czerwinski
Off Screen
WdKA-alumnus and film director/producer Kuba Szutkowski is the organizer of the local film platform Off Screen. On Wednesday, January 16th Off Screen will host an IFFR-themed programme in WORM. The main guest is IFFR director Bero Beyer, who is also an alumnus of the Willem de Kooning Academy! For detailed information visit platform's Facebook page.
Teasers
Our Audiovisual Design students collaborated with the IFFR and Movies that Matter in making teasers that will be shown in the cinema theatres and online, more information later on this site.
Visits and Masterclasses
The first year students Audiovisual Design will visit the festival to watch a short films programme and follow masterclasses, more information later on this site.
RTM Art
Friday, January 25, 10:00-02:00,
LantarenVenster Foyer, free admission
In the foyer of LantarenVenster during RTM, work by VJs Elsbeth van Noppen and Geert Mul and by students of the Willem de Kooning Academy will be projected. In the 'Mischa Automatiek' mini-cinema, Mischa Oudewater provides an absurd glimpse of life in Rotterdam with 'humorous shorts to laugh at’.
Thursday Night Live! Rabbit Hole: Meme Night
Thursday, January 24, 19:30-23:45
Het Nieuwe Instituut+IFFR
Museumpark 25, 3015
Don’t miss the big Meme Battle – YLYL (you laugh, you lose), as part of the action-packed Meme Night at Het Nieuwe Instituut. Hosted by Jiv the Chief (HipHopHuis) and emoji expert Lilian Stolk, backed up by DJ Don Dev, ten battlers will show the best memes to make their opponents and the audience laugh. With meme masters Cesar Majorana (VPRO), Clusterduck, Hugo Emmerzael (o.a. T Hoogt Filmtheater), Kim De Groot (Mona Lisa's), Eric Hatch, Dan Schoenbrun, Anne van de Wetering & Sanna Elon Vrij (CLUB GEWALT) and Léon Kranenburg (WOAU). More information on this event's Facebook page.
PrintRoom+IFFR
Thursday, January 24
PrintRoom
Schietbaanstraat 12 & 17
PrintRoom joins the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) with an exhibtion by Mika Taanila and a presentation of extensive flipbook collection by artists, designers, filmmakers and photographers. Finnish artist Mika Taanila will present the exhibition Works on Paper, consisting of two series: an ultra-minimalist reduction of a film script in My Silence (On Paper) (2015) and a small library of brutally, yet cleverly abused books on cinema: Film Reader (2017), as previously premiered at the Venice Biennale. In collaboration with Balzer Projects and part of the film programme Say No More. The exhibition will be both at PrintRoom and the art space of Machyta Giebels, Schietbaanstraat 12. View the full list of contributors here.
Piet Zwart Institute Symposium: Towards a Matenadaran of Film
Monday, January 28
10:00 - 16:00
Hilton Rotterdam, free admission
The exhibition Temple of Cinema #1: Sayat Nova Outtakes is above all a signal that there is a need to create a repository where films from the Caucasus can be preserved, studied and disseminated again. This symposium attempts to generate a blueprint for this ambition.
An international ensemble of specialists and filmmakers teams up for a day-long exploration of the challenges and opportunities of restoring a Parajanov film. Speakers include film researcher Daniel Bird (who recently initiated several Parajanov restorations), the French specialist on Soviet and Russian cinema Valerie Pozner and the American film historian James Steffen, author of The Cinema of Parajanov (2014), the first comprehensive English-language study on the subject. Coming from Armenia are the founder of the Parajanov museum Zaven Sarsgyan, and the archaeologist, ethnographer and former Parajanov actor Levon Abrahamyan. This symposium is co-produced by The Piet Zwart Institute (The Lens-Based Media study path). View the full programme here.
Royal College of Art (London) & the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam)
MIASMA
Saturday, 26th January
NeverLand Cinema, Pieter de Raadtstraat 35
Admission free
MIASMA is the Showcase for film and video work by current Masters students from Royal College of Art (London) and the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam).
MIASMA is the film/video screening that will take place during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and is being held by current Masters students from Royal College of Art (London) and the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam). After an open call to both schools’ master programmes, including Master of Lens Based Media, Experimental Publishing, Fine Arts, Interior Architecture: Research + Design, Education in Arts and Moving Image, the facilitating group made a small selection of their recent work. Project's website.
De Aanbidding van de Witte Vrouw
Friday, January 25, 12:00 - 13:38
LantarenVenster 5
Thursday, January 31, 15:45 - 16:58
KINO 3 (English subtitles)
Rotterdam artist Jos Looise followed his old art academy friend Bob van Leeuwen for years. Bob was once a rebel fighting convention, but heavy drug abuse left deep scars. He visits his fellow artist Aat Veldhoen, an exhibition of work by Keith Haring, exhibits his work at the gallery and takes part in the TV programme De Reünie (The Reunion). View the trailer of this film.
The Royal Hangover, IFFR Pop-up Restaurant
From January 23 to February 3
Arminiuskerk Rotterdam, Museumpark 3
The Soda Club presents a new pop-up restaurant: The Royal Hangover created by Florine van Rees (Fashion Design, 2012) and Jeroen Dijkstra. During the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Arminius church will transform into a petit Versailles. Enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by Rotterdam's finest in the atmospheric back rooms of the church from 23 January to 3 February. There will be two shifts each evening for dinner, 17:30 to 19:30 and 20:00 to 21:30. Buy the tickets here.
Photography: Michèle van Vliet