Artist & Scholar in Residence

Eye Filmmuseum celebrated the 70th anniversary of its collection in 2016 with the launch of a residency programme. As of 2017, this initiative welcomes invited artists and scholars to explore and creatively reuse archival material within the Eye collection.

Still from Le voyage sur Jupiter (1909, Segundo de Chomón).

The programme follows in a long tradition of previous collaborations with renowned artists and aims to stimulate interactions among artists, scientists and the public.

The invited artist and scholar will be hosted by the Eye Collection Centre. This centre in Amsterdam-North provides a working space and disposes of facilities that the artists and scholars can make use of – a modern research centre and library, but also various vaults, restoration and scanning ateliers. The Artist and Scholar in Residence will have access to the expertise of Eye curators and a vast collection of approximately 60,000 film titles and other collections besides, such as photos, posters, film apparatuses, film music, books, as well as archives of filmmakers and businesses.

Open Call

The new call for applications will come in 2026. For your reference, you can find the previous call for applications here.

Still from Maudite soit la guerre (1914, Alfred Machin).)

The residency aims to provide the opportunity for public access to the work by the invited artist and scholar, and promotes talks, seminars or workshops as part of the stay. At the end of the residency, the artist and the scholar will give a presentation on the project they have worked on. The form of this presentation can vary from a screening of their new work, a lecture, a publication or the exhibition of an installation.