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1968 – You Say You Want a Revolution

This programme shows how, 50 years ago, the film camera became the rallying symbol of a generation of young people who demanded the right to shape their own lives.

still from The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (George Sluizer, NL 1988)

75 Restorations

This year Eye Filmmuseum celebrates its 75th anniversary by releasing 75 restored works from its collection on screen and on Eye Film Player throughout the year.

still from Een ochtend van zes weken (Nikolai van der Heyde, NL 1966)

A Season of Classic Films

A Season of Classics Films offers free screenings across Europe. Eye screens Een ochtend van zes weken, a Dutch New Wave classic by Nikolai van der Heyde from 1966.

Chia-Wei Hsu, Drones, Frosted Bats and the Testimony of the Deceased (2017)

A Tale of Hidden Histories

Truth, facts, memories, reality: are they all constructions? The artists in this group exhibition deploy many different types of media to investigate and ‘unmask’ the past.

In a close-up of a vintage painted poster, a man and woman stand in the forefront, in the background there's a small sailing boat on an azure-blue sea (campaign image Alberto Lattuada: Meester naast Fellini)

Alberto Lattuada

One of the best-kept secrets of Italian cinema: Alberto Lattuada. Rediscover a filmmaker who mixed his polished style with a preference for genre and popular stories.

Alex van Warmerdam – L'histoire kaputt

At the invitation of Eye Filmmuseum, Alex van Warmerdam presents an exhibition with new films, installations and objects. Film, theatre, design and painting come together.

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Alice, The Virtual Reality Play and film programme

Alice, the unforgettable creation of British author and photographer Lewis Carroll, will be strolling through Eye this month, in a virtual reality expierence and film programme.

Antonioni Project (after Michelangelo Antonioni) (2009) © Jan Versweyveld

All About Film About Theatre – Ivo van Hove & Jan Versweyveld

Film-to-stage adaptations synthesize theatre with film, live video, and music.

An abstract illustration of a figure in a trilby hat playing a piano on the left and a figure on the right playing the saxophone. (campaign image All That Jazz (© René Gast & Yvonne Kroese (wallstories.org)))

All That Jazz

A scintillating programme on jazz and film with classics, live performances and a focus on exceptional avant-garde and activist filmmakers with a passion for jazz.

still from Small Axe: Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen, GB 2020)

Amsterdam Art Week 2021

Eye is screening Small Axe as part of Amsterdam Art Week. Small Axe is a collection of five films by the British artist and director Steve McQueen.

Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (SU 1983)

Andrei Tarkovsky – The Exhibition

Exhibition and film programme devoted to the celebrated filmmaker and mystic, focusing specifically on Tarkovsky’s quest for existential truth.

Anthony McCall – Solid Light Films and Other Works

Since the 1970s, McCall has produced a remarkable body of work that includes, among other media, large-scale light-projection installations, so-called ‘solid light films’.

Béla Tarr – Till the End of the World

Béla Tarr is a master of the magnificent long take, a master of wonderfully shot, melancholic films that express the human condition.

campaign image Celluloid, work by Tacita Dean

Celluloid – Tacita Dean, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rosa Barba, Gibson & Recoder

International group exhibition featuring work by artists who use and reflect on the qualities of 16mm and 35mm film stock and the cinematic apparatus.

campaign image Chantal Akerman - Passages, still from Hotel Monterey

Chantal Akerman – Passages

Major solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman, who rose to fame in the 1970s as a feminist avant-garde filmmaker, who later discovered the possibilities of the art gallery.

Cinedans Festival 2022

In five full days, Cinedans presents the state of the art of international dance film with 165 films from 79 countries.

Cinedans 2023

From 24 to 26 March, Cinedans once again invites you to Eye with a full programme of the most beautiful, exciting and poetic dance films of the previous year.

Illustration by Joost Stokhof in yellow and blue on a black background depicts several smaller illustrations of cells, amoebas, sea creatures, fishheads, and a human skeleton where flowers and plants grow from the bones (campaign image Cinema Ecologica)

Illustration: Joost Stokhof

Cinema Ecologica

How filmmakers have been imagining the relationship between humankind and planet Earth: from meditative experiences of nature to astounding science fiction.

still from Viens! VR (Michel Reilhac, FR 2015)

Cinema Erotica

Cinema Erotica celebrates sensuality, squarely faces the embarrassing darker sides of lust like sex addiction and offers a compendium of seductive film history.

Cinema Remake – Art & Film

Exhibition with work of filmmakers and artists who use iconic feature films as a basis with which to create something radically new.

Close-Up – A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands

Group exhibition featuring work by a new generation of filmmakers and artists in the Netherlands, who are breaking down the barriers between film, video and visual art.

David Cronenberg – The Exhibition

Major exhibition focusing on director David Cronenberg, who acquired cult status with his idiosyncratic films about the relationship between body, mind, technology and mass media.

A woman on a blue background, a man and woman on a white background and a man and woman on a red background recall the French flag in a reference to Kieslowski's famous Trois couleurs film trilogy (campaign image De Films van Kieslowski)

The Films of Kieslowski

Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski broke through internationally with Dekalog, followed by La double vie de Véronique and the Trois couleurs trilogy. Now digitally restored!

still from Saint Sebastian (Fiona Tan, 2001)

Expanded Cinema – Isaac Julien, Fiona Tan, Yang Fudong

With their works in this exhibition, the participating artists demonstrated that film doesn’t just belong in the cinema.

2020: Water, Climate, and Migration

The annual Eye International Conference explores contemporary archival and academic debates, and in 2020 hosts the biennial Orphan Film Symposium.

2015: The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema

This conference will celebrate this milestone anniversary by providing a new forum to explore contemporary archival and academic debates around colour in the silent era.

2016: Exposing the Film Apparatus

Eye International Conference 2016

2017: The Reel Thing

in 2017, the conference will host for two days a special 40th edition of the technical symposium The Reel Thing.

2018: Activating the Archive

How can audio-visual collections be mobilized for the common good? The Eye International Conference 2018 will explore answers to these and other questions.

still from Les six soeurs Dainef (unknown, FR 1902)

2019: Sisters

The theme of the Eye International Conference 2019 is Sisters, taken both literally and figuratively within a wide range of theoretical and historical angles.

Still uit REEL UNREEL (2011) van Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs - REEL UNREEL (2011)

Eye International Conference 2022

Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices

On a lit-up background, a gloved hand moves a small magnifying glass across an analogue film strip which features the number eight on a pink background (campaign image Eye International Conference 2023)

Eye International Conference 2023

Eye Filmmuseum and the University of Amsterdam present the 8th Eye International Conference from 4 through 7 June.

Eyeshadow

Saturday night series with indie classics from roughly 1990 to the present, followed by high-profile live acts in the style of the film.

Family Day

Family Day at Eye means discovering and watching films, playing, investigating: enjoyment for young and old.

In this portrait of Felix de Rooy, he stares at the viewer intently while framing his face with his hands, he wears two prominent rings (© Vincent Jong Tjien Fa)

Felix de Rooy – The Museum of My Mind

Overview of films by and with Felix de Rooy, a filmmaker from Curaçao seen by many young makers in the Netherlands and in the Caribbean as a major source of inspiration.

still from La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, IT/FR 1960)

Fellini – The Exhibition

Focusing on one of the most image-defining masters of post-war Italian cinema, Fellini – The Exhibition unravels the filmmaker’s universe.

Film Noir – The Dark Side of Hollywood

Rain-drenched streets, curls of cigarette smoke, and men with a dark past: this summer Eye presents an extended programme of classic film noir.

portrait Eric de Kuyper © Stef Verstraaten

Filmic Passions – A weekend with Eric de Kuyper

Eye recently restored six films by Eric de Kuyper and pays homage to the Filmmuseum’s former deputy director from 8 through 10 February.

Fiona Tan, Gray Glass (2020), still, 3 channel 4K video installation, black & white, 3 x mono, courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London

Fiona Tan – Mountains and Molehills

How do we hold on to memories – in archives, in the mind, in the landscape, on film? Visual artist and filmmaker Fiona Tan investigates ways in which we record the world around us.

still from Kristall (Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, 2006)

Found Footage – Cinema Exposed

The exhibition showed how artists and filmmakers make use of the nearly inexhaustible reservoir of images that can be found in film archives, on the Internet, TV and DVD.

Children's Game 10 (Francis Alÿs)

Francis Alÿs – Children's Games

A major exhibition of work by the Belgian-Mexican artist Francis Alÿs, who is best-known for his playful videos that are both engaged and poetic.

still from Het gangstermeisje (Frans Weisz, NL 1966)

Frans Weisz – Filmen is vurrukkulluk

To mark the premiere of Frans Weisz’s latest film, Eye presents a programme of films by one of the Netherlands’ most prominent filmmakers of the past fifty years.

campaign image FURY! Punk Culture, illustration © Roel Smit

FURY! Punk Culture

Eye celebrates the 40th anniversary of punk. The programme includes features, documentaries, bands, spoken word performances, DIY films, DJs and punk poets, a punk museum and more.

Guido van der Werve, Nummer vier, I don't want to get involved in this. I don’t want to be part of this. Talk me out of it, 2005, courtesy the artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York

Guido van der Werve – Palpable Futility

The first retrospective exhibition of work by Guido van der Werve. In his universe, romanticism, nature and the sublime are never far away.

Hito Steyerl, Liquidity, Inc. (2014)

Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing – Eye Art & Film Prize

Highlighting this Eye Art & Film Prize, this exhibition featured work by the first three winners, all of whom share a socially engaged approach to their art.

Holland Festival 2021

During Holland Festival, Eye will pay special attention to associate artist Ryuichi Sakamoto and Dutch filmmaker Frank Scheffer.

IDFA 2021

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam presents its 34th edition, including in Eye.

IDFA 2022

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam presents its 35th edition, including in Eye.

IDFA 2023

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam presents its 36th edition, including in Eye.

Stil Careless Crime

IFFR 2021

International Film Festival Rotterdam is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year! IFFR 2021 concludes with a festive programme, and Eye joins in the celebrations.

Jan Svankmajer – The Alchemical Wedding

Steaks, pebbles, iron locks: master animator Jan Švankmajer can bring anything to life in works of obsession, horror and eroticism underpinned by an undercurrent of abuse of power.

still from Floating Weeds (Ukikusa) (Yasujirō Ozu, JP 1959)

Japan Restored

The golden years of Japanese cinema, the 1950s, are brought to life in a programme featuring brand new 4K restorations of seven classics.

Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory

With the exhibition Jean Desmet’s Dream Factory, Eye opened up one of its treasure troves, inviting you to step into the dream world of the early years of cinema.

Jesper Just, Intercourses

Jesper Just

Solo exhibition by Jesper Just, who caused a stir with cinematographic works in which he explores gender, desires, relations and identity in a refined visual idiom.

Johan van der Keuken – Up to the Light

The exhibition focused on the extraordinary way in which Van der Keuken brought together contrasting images in his films and observed a world in constant transition.

Kaboom Animation Festival 2023

Mark your calendar, set the alarm… March 24th through April 2nd. Let yourself be immersed in the animation world during Kaboom Animation Festival.

Kaboom Animation Festival

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? It’s Kaboom Animation Festival and its le-gen-da-ry programme! In Eye from 30 March through 3 April.

Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2021

The Class of 2021 of the Netherlands Film Academy graduates!

Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2022

From 5 to 9 October, the Class of 2022 of the Netherlands Film Academy will graduate during the eleventh edition of the Keep an Eye Film Academy Festival.

Placed on a black background is a white design with a 3D effect, resembling a blocky letter F with a multitude of protruding edges of bright colours. Inside is written in black letters Keep an Eye: Film Academy Festival 2023

Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2023

From 30 June through 9 July, students of the Netherlands Film Academy will present their graduation work during the Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival.

still from Zemlya (Earth) (Alexander Dovzhenko, SU 1930)

Kino Ukraïna

Ten films by filmmakers who were born or who work in Ukraine, which has been fighting for recognition of its unique history, language and culture ever since the Maidan Revolution.

Le monde d'Isabelle Huppert

Intense and hypnotising, cool and on fire: Eye offers a tribute to the phenomenal French actress with a programme featuring more than thirty films, interviews, guests and Q&As.

campaign image Locus: Apichatpong Weerasethaku - Cao Guimaraes

Locus: Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Cao Guimarães

Exhibition of work by prominent film artists Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Cao Guimarães. Their celebrated work evokes a world that blends dream, sensory experience and reality.

campaign image Looking For America (still from The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, US 2015))

Looking for America

Eye takes an inquisitive look at the United States. How does the age-old ideal of a ‘land of the free and home of the brave’ relate to the difficult reality of today?

Martin Scorsese – The Exhibition

Exhibition devoted to one of the most important American film directors of the past half-century: Martin Scorsese.

still from Knockin’ on Herman’s Door (Stefano Bertacchini, NL 2021)

Meet the Archive

Discover hidden treasures from Eye’s collection. Once a year, Eye’s experts on the collection present new arrivals, exceptional finds and restoration projects. Free admission.

Two protesting women stand encircled by police officers wearing helmets, they appear to be shouting, one has her first raised in the air (campaign image Meet the Archive 2023)

still from Donna: vrouwen in verzet (Yvonne Scholten, NL 1980)

Meet the Archive 2023

Eye’s curators and restorers present their latest discoveries including films from Cinemien and the archives of Dutch producer Matthijs van Heijingen. Free admission.

Meriem Bennani, Kahlil Joseph, Karrabing Film Collective

The work of the three recent winners of the Eye Art & Film Prize, who effortlessly cross the boundaries between cinema, documentary, and visual arts.

Heat & Vice – The Films of Michael Mann

Michael Mann inimitably captures the gritty side of big city life in stylized images. Eye shows all of his twelve feature films, plus the Miami Vice pilot.

Michelangelo Antonioni – Il maestro del cinema moderno

Exhibition about one of the foremost innovators in film from the last century, who renewed the grammar of film by thinking in terms of the image and less in terms of narrative.

still from Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (Mikio Naruse, JP 1955)

Mikio Naruse

With a programme of fourteen of his most distinctive films, Eye Filmmuseum demonstrates that Mikio Naruse ranks among the great of Japanese cinema.

A computer-generated illustration featuring an older figure and a child sitting in the back row of a cinema. On the screen, a martial arts fight is shown, the child in the cinema holds up a sword mirroring the film on the screen. (campaign image Xtended: Missing Pictures; still from Missing Pictures (Tsai Ming-Liang's The Seven-Story Building))

still from Missing Pictures (Tsai Ming-Liang's The Seven-Story Building)

Missing Pictures

A virtual reality experience and a selection of films by five top international directors, including Naomi Kawase and Abel Ferrara.

campaign image Month of European Film (Amsterdam) (EFA2022)

Month of European Film 2023

The Month of European Film celebrates the fabulous harvest of European films from illustrious makers such as Wim Wenders, Anton Corbijn, Steve McQueen and Aki Kaurismäki.

Month of European Film 2022

For four weeks, the Month of European Film celebrates a fabulous crop of European films by illustrious filmmakers including Gaspar Noé, Lukas Dhondt and Christian Mungiu.

Mūbii Japan – 90 jaar Japanse cinema

With an overview of more than forty titles, we provide insight into more than ninety years of fascinating film history, from the early twentieth century to the present day.

Nouchka van Brakel on the set of Van de koele meren des doods (Hedwig: The Quiet Lakes) (NL 1982)

Nouchka van Brakel

Nouchka van Brakel was the first Dutch filmmaker to reach a broad demographic with films centring on women. Plenty of reasons to create a programme of her films.

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Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) – Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction

Exhibition on the German-American avant-garde filmmaker who was highly influential in the development of the animation film and who remains a source of inspiration for animators.

campagnebeeld Parra Odyssee (beeld uit Obsessions)

Parra Odyssee – An ode to Pim de la Parra

Eye is re-releasing De la Parra's feature debut Obsessions (1969) and, over a one week period, pays tribute to one of the Netherlands' flamboyant directors, an inspirator to many.

Péter Forgács – Looming Fire

Based on Eye’s extensive collection of home movies, Forgács takes us through everyday life in the Netherlands East Indies at the height of the colonial period.

A man wearing a police-like uniform stands looking outside from a dark hallway covered in graffiti and peeling paint (still from Air Conditioner by Fradique from 2020)

still from Air Conditioner (Fradique, AN 2020)

Programmers of the Future

This summer, three Programmers of the Future will present their first film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum.

Ramón Gieling at Work

Filmmaker, writer, theatre-maker, visual artist: whatever he does, Ramón Gieling wants to get to the bottom of things and see what drives people.

Research Labs 2022

Eye Research Labs provide a bridge between Eye’s historical collection and films of the future.

Researchlabs 2023

Eye gives a podium to the newest generation of filmmakers and curators. Students of academies and universities flock to present their own work and view that of others.

still from Merah Putih (Red and White) (Yadi Sugandi, ID 2009)

Revolusi!

Film programme that depicts the Indonesian people’s political struggle and legacy of colonialism from multiple perspectives, with some films never shown in Dutch cinemas before.

Master of Light – Robby Müller

Major exhibition devoted to the Netherlands’ most famous director of photography, Robby Müller.

still from Rainbow Bubbles (Iosef Demian, RO 1982)

Romanian Cinema

A reflection on the December 1989 revolution and everything that went on before and after – featuring old and new films, special premieres and Q&As with filmmakers.

Ruskino 1913-2013

In the year that celebrates 400 years of diplomatic ties between The Netherlands and Russia, Eye offers an overview of 100 years of Russian film in Ruskino.

Ryoji Ikeda, Datamatics

Ryoji Ikeda

Visual artist and a key figure in the world of electronic music Ikeda created a spectacular presentation of his overwhelmingly immersive audiovisual artworks specially for Eye.

In a still from Saodat Ismailova's Two Horizons, two hilltops feature in a midnight-blue landscape, one in the front and one further back. A shining star is right above the hill furthest back.

Saodat Ismailova, Two Horizons, 2017. Two channel HD video installation, 24 min., colour, 4.1 surround. Courtesy of Saodat Ismailova and Le Fresnoy

Saodat Ismailova – 18 000 Worlds

In her first retrospective exhibition 18,000 Worlds, Saodat Ismailova guides us into the hidden world of myth and ritual in Central Asia.

campaign image Shell Shock (still from Waltz with Bashir)

still from Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, IL 2008)

Shell Shock – The power of storytelling

Shell Shock provides a forum for the cinematic representation of violent conflicts and traumatic memories. The subjective experience takes centre stage, not the finding of truth.

still from Carmen Comes Home (Keisuke Kinoshita, JP 1951)

Shochiku 100

Eye is marking one hundred years of one of the biggest film companies in Japan: Shochiku, birthplace of master filmmakers such as Ozu, Kobayashi and Takeshi Kitano.

still from In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, US 1967)

Sidney Poitier & Denzel Washington

They were good friends, Oscar winners and shining examples for young, African American actors; this summer at Eye: films with Sidney Poitier and films with Denzel Washington.

still from A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

Stanley Kubrick – The Exhibition

Comprehensive exhibition on one of the most influential directors of the 20th century, the genius behind films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.

still from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, US 1982)

Steven Spielberg – Master Storyteller

With screening of over twenty of his image-defining films, Eye Filmmuseum presents a retrospective of the work of the most successful director of all time.

Sunsets

Relax with a drink while enjoying the sultry summer evening and an exceptional film during the open-air screenings in the park next to Eye.

still from The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder, US 1955)

Sweet & Sour: The Films of Billy Wilder

The legendary screenwriter and Hollywood director Billy Wilder was a brilliant word artist. His Oscar-winning classics are irresistibly funny, bold and incisive.

In a sunny lot, a man lies back on the hood of a car. He is shirtless, the tattoo on his right bicep reads 'MOM' as he cradles a small calico kitten. Next to him, facing the camera and leaning against the car, a young woman in a blue top stands with her eyes closed while she has a toothbrush raised halfway to her mouth.

still from River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, US 1994)

Sweet 16

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Taartrovers Film Festival 2022

Taartrovers Film Festival is visiting Eye with a programme especially for young children aged two to nine. Watch wonderful films and discover the Taartrovers' Lab!

campaign imageimage from Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, GB 2013)

Tales of the Future

With Tales of the Future, Eye shows the influence of the synthesizer on film music and sound design, and tells how the instrument became indispensable in film music.

The Comedies of Woody Allen

In The Comedies of Woody Allen, Eye highlights his extensive oeuvre, from the rarely seen 'early, funny ones' of the early 1970s to his latest film Irrational Man.

still from The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, FI/SE 1990)

The Essential Aki Kaurismäki

Eye Filmmuseum screens more than ten classic titles by Aki Kaurismäki, the chronicler of Finnish melancholy with an absurdist twist. The majority will be screened on 35mm.

still from Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, US 1954)

The Hitchcock Touch

Eye pays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, one of the most iconic and influential filmmakers, with a major retrospective including nine restored silent films in new, digital copies.

still from Ex Machina (Alex Garland, GB 2014)

The Man Machine

Eye explores the cinematic representation of the fears and desires that inevitably accompany the fusion of man and machine.

The Quay Brothers' Universum

Exhibition featuring the enigmatic and dark body of work of the Quay Brothers that includes stop-motion animation, drawings, and performing arts productions.

Theo van Gogh

On November 2 2014, it will be exactly ten years ago that columnist, interviewer and filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered. Eye screens his thirteen feature films and more.