EYE news

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 5^th 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.
07 Mar | Collection

EYE film restoration showing in Berlin

A couple of years ago EYE restored one of director Frank Scheffer’s highly individual music documentaries. The 35mm version of his Helicopter String Quartet (1996) will be shown in Ann Arbor (US) and in Berlin in March and April.
16 Feb | Collection

Cruel comedies at MoMa

EYE will be presenting 40 comedies from the early teens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In this exclusive episode of the Cruel and Unusual comedy series, 6 programs will be presented around the themes "sexual misconduct", "tales of madness", ''mass destruction", ''science fiction", "musical comedy" and "domestic abuse".

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