Rey

Rey 2017

4.30

In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean army is devastating.

2017

When Forever Dies

When Forever Dies 2020

1

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.

2020

They Call Me Babu

They Call Me Babu 2019

8.00

In the 1940s, Alima decides to flee from an arranged marriage to work as a nanny for a Dutch family. Through all her new impressions and thoughts, she looks critically at colonial society and her own position.

2019

Footsteps

Footsteps 2022

1

In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories. In a fascinating juxtaposition, she combines these images with excerpts from letters she received from her father just after she moved to the Netherlands in the late 1980s. Through his education in Indonesia, Tan’s father knew a lot about the Netherlands without ever having visited the country. In the letters, he meanders seamlessly between personal news and world events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.

2022

Knockin' on Herman's Door

Knockin' on Herman's Door 2021

1

Documentary about the tempestuous music scene of Amsterdam during the late ’70s and early ’80s, consisting of never-before-seen recordings of Herman Brood songs as well as the chaotic shoots for the film Cha Cha (1979), starring Herman Brood and Nina Hagen. Also features recordings of bands such as White Honey and The Streetbeats (with Jan Rot), The Meteors, and many others.

2021

Muhamed

Muhamed 2017

1

A young boy plays an accordion in a shopping mall. Béla Tarr picks up the camera one more time to shoot his very last scene. It is his anger about how refugees are treated in Europe, and especially in Hungary, that drove him to make a statement.

2017

Genoeg

Genoeg 2023

1

The insecure genderqueer Jae wants to make their mother proud by including her in their life. When their mother attempts to keep contact to a minimum, Jae confronts her in vain.

2023

Verse Texture

Verse Texture 1998

1

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three [Chinese] travelers and the girl [Anna] are spoken as a monologue by the actress. The actor just listens but occasionally he gives her instructions.

1998

Tillema, de Multatuli van de fotografie

Tillema, de Multatuli van de fotografie 2006

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Eleven thousand photos, six miles of footage, three hundred books and eighteen volumes of Indië Oud en Nieuw: this is the historical legacy of Hendrik Tillema, who was born in Friesland and worked his way up to a successful producer of carbonated drinks in the Netherlands East-Indies early last century. He used his accumulated wealth to improve the life of the orang tekil (the common man) in Indonesia. For example, he published his own book about the lack of a sewer system and he saw to it that the local population was vaccinated ('one vaccinator does more for the pacification of Indonesia than an army of soldiers'). By means of a staggering amount of self-shot and collected material, this `one-man Third World movement' qualified the limited, positive image of our former colony that persisted until the forties.

2006

Liquidator

Liquidator 2010

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A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in straightforward shots and camera movements. Due to deterioration these images changed in a dramatic way. In the adaption Karel Doing zooms in on these effects with the aid of digital techniques like optical flow and morphing. Michal Osowski collaborated on the project with sound that is directely linked to the image, he used the changes in density of the film to control complex filters and distortion effects.

2010

De Nooijer: Dutch Masters

De Nooijer: Dutch Masters 2013

1

Short film compilation arranged by Paul for Moskwood & the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, 4:3 | Colour | DD2.0

2013

Our Focus

Our Focus 2021

1

Video essay on the work of Jia Zhangke by Kevin B. Lee, specially commissioned by Eye Filmmuseum and IFFR as a response to the installation Close-Up.

2021

Re-sculpted in Time: Sanatorium Zonnestraal

Re-sculpted in Time: Sanatorium Zonnestraal 2020

1

Drifting between data and images and hovering amidst seemingly incompatible moods: Tarkovsky’s cinematic dreams on the one hand and Zonnestraal’s utopian architecture on the other. Sanatorium Zonnestraal (1928): Famous symbol of enlightened rational thinking par excellence: transparency, light, air, tranquillity and space. ‘One of modern architecture's most important buildings’ (Wikipedia). The contrast with the sick person in need of healing could hardly be greater. Van Bakel has scanned the sanatorium building and converted it to 'point clouds’ that turn into models where you seem to move in between - or rather: seem to fly through - as in a dream. He combines these ghostly, whimsical images with the fragmented dream images of buildings, land…

2020

Slide of Life

Slide of Life 2017

1

Slide of Life was created by Thomas Bruinsma, Fleur Sophie de Boer, Jeroen Koelewijn from Utrecht School of Arts in a collaborative project of A Million Pictures. The short film used digital images of lantern slides from the collections of our partners Utrecht University Museum, Museum Sonnenborgh and EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

2017

Broken Horizon

Broken Horizon 2008

1

From a sea full of icebergs tinkling rising green hills. Winding roads and a forest of scaffolding overgrow the virgin landscape. There stands the city, dark and unapproachable. But when night falls and the lights turn on, the water returns. Manufacturability is overtaken by transformation.

2008