EYE news

  • 05 Jun | Collection
    EYE restorations selected for Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna

    EYE will be contributing more than fifty films to the 26th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna, Italy (23 to 30 June). As in the past editions, numerous films from EYE’s Jean Desmet Collection will be screened within the Hundred Years Ago section, curated by Mariann Lewinsky. 

  • 01 Jun | Collection
    Hitchcock's debut in London

    From August to October 2012, the BFI presents a major celebration of the most influential and iconic British film director of all time, Alfred Hitchcock, featuring his newly restored silent masterpieces. Three were lent by EYE.

  • 05 May | EYE International
    Sylvia Hoeks to Act with Donald Sutherland in New Giuseppe Tornatore Film

    Sylvia Hoeks will play the leading lady alongside Geoffrey Rush and Donald Sutherland in the international film production The Best Offer. The film will be directed by Italian Giuseppe Tornatore, who won an Oscar for Cinema Paradiso in 1988.

     

  • 05 May | Collection
    EYE wins two FOCAL International Awards

    EYE won two FOCAL International Awards on 2 May; the Desmet Collection won the award for best archive project and Karel Doing’s Liquidator won an award for the best use of archive material in a short film.

     

  • 17 Apr | EYE General News
    EYE attracts 38,000 visitors in opening week

    EYE has already hosted more than 38,000 visitors in its opening week. Over sixteen thousand people bought tickets to see a film or visit the opening exhibition. The rest of the visitors came to explore the new building, join in the free interactive Basement, or enjoy the EYE bar & restaurant and museum shop.

  • 17 Apr | EYE General News
    EYE, Amsterdam's new film museum on the river IJ, is open!

    EYE, the new film museum on the river IJ, is open! EYE was officially declared open on Wednesday 4 April at 21:00 p.m. by HRH Queen Beatrix in the presence of a host of well-known Dutch actors and leading members of the cultural scene. The ‘outsiders’ were not forgotten, either: a light show projected on the museum could be seen from Amsterdam’s Central Station.

  • 21 Mar | Collection
    EYE Finalist for FOCAL International Awards

    EYE is among the finalists in four categories for the FOCAL International Awards. The nominated films and projects are: Karel Doing’s Liquidator (for the category Best Use of Footage in a Short Production), the website Film In Nederland (Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms), EYE’s Desmet Collection (Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Project) and Shoes (1916, Best Archive Restoration/Preservation Title).

  • 13 Mar | EYE General News
    'Found Footage: Cinema Exposed' opening exhibition EYE

    EYE opens on April 5th 2012 with Found Footage: Cinema Exposed. The exhibition and accompanying film program reveals how artists and filmmakers utilize the virtually inexhaustible reservoir of images that can be found in film archives, on Internet, TV and DVD.

  • 13 Mar | Collection
    EYE restorations at Werner Schroeter retrospective in New York

    In May 2012, the Museum of Moving Art (MoMA) in New York will be showing a Werner Schroeter retrospective. It was presented first in 2011 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

  • 12 Mar | Collection
    Desmet Collection in Vienna

    Prof. Ivo Blom, academic authority on the Desmet Collection, will be presenting a selection of Desmet films at the Museum of Modern art (MUMOK ) in Austria on 4 April 2012.

 
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