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campaign image 1968: You Say You Want a Revolution (© Bruno Barbey)
© Bruno Barbey

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)

still 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)
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)
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.

On the edge of a dark forest, a man in an 18th century costume with a white powdered wig looks into the distance

still Liberté (Albert Serra, FR/DE/PT/ES 2019)

Albert Serra – Liberté

Eye Filmmuseum presents Albert Serra – Liberté. For this exhibition, Serra has turned the entire gallery into an immersive set, filled with nocturnal and clandestine encounters.

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.

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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.

All About Theatre About Film: Antonioni Project (after Michelangelo Antonioni) (2009) © Jan Versweyveld
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)))
© 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)
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'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.

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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’.

campaign image Badlands, illustration © Isa Grütter
illustration © Isa Grütter

Badlands

Up-and-coming Dutch film talent at Eye: Badlands is a bi-monthly platform that enables new makers to present their work and talk about their great examples, dreams and ideals.

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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.

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© Brian Elstak

Black Light

Black Light highlights the representation of black identity in films, from 1920 to the present. A programme of talks, events and performances, featuring theatre, dance, and more.

Two women are depicted against a sunny blue sky with white clouds, they are the main characters from films by Andrea Arnold and Lynne Ramsay

Britain's Brightest – The films of Andrea Arnold & Lynne Ramsay

The two British directors make films like their lives depend on it. Both show the sometimes merciless reality of life in self-written scenarios, without judging.

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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
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.

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Cinedans Festival 2022

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

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Cinedans Festival 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.

Against a red and orange sky, a person stands on top of a small hill

still Atopias: The Homeless Wanderer (Daniela Yohannes & Julien Beramis)

Cinedans Festival 2024

20 to 24 March, Cinedans celebrates 20 years of daring, beautiful and fascinating dance films with a showcase of new and exciting stories told through the prism of the moving body.

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Cinedans Festival 2025

Cinedans FEST returns to Eye from 20 through 23 March with a programme full of the most beautiful, exciting and poetic dance films from around the world.

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.

campaign image Cinema Erotica (still from Viens! VR (Michel Reilhac, FR 2015))
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.

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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.

In the foreground on a film set, Claire Denis, a woman with wavy blonde hair, stands with her hands raised to her earphones, her eyes are closed as she appears to listen intently. In the background, a man with glasses looks at her reaction

Claire Denis – Trouble-Making Magic

Claire Denis probes the consequences of colonialism and the feeling of being an outsider, devoting particular attention to family tensions, sensuality, desire and the body.

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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.

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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.

De verliefde camera © Ed van der Elsken, Nederlands Fotomuseum

De verliefde camera © Ed van der Elsken, Nederlands Fotomuseum

The films of Ed van der Elsken

Twelve 16mm films by Ed van der Elsken can be watched for free on Eye Film Player. These remastered films open up a less well-known aspect of Van der Elsken’s oeuvre.

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!

campaign image Expanded Cinema – Isaac Julien, Fiona Tan, Yang Fudong, still from Saint Sebastian (Fiona Tan, 2001)
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.

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.

Eye International Conference 2016

On March 11, the book Exposing the Film Apparatus – The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory will be presented during an international seminar at Eye.

Eye International Conference 2017

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

Eye International Conference 2018

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)

still Les six soeurs Dainef (FR 1902)

Eye International Conference 2019

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

Eye International Conference 2020

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

Still uit REEL UNREEL (2011) van Francis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs - REEL UNREEL (2011)

Eye International Conference 2022

Eye Filmmuseum and partners present the 7th Eye International Conference on ‘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.

In a black and white film strip, a table is pictured with a black dog standing on top of it. On a chair next to the table, a white cat sits looking straight at the camera.

Eye International Conference 2024

26 through 29 May 2024, the 9th Eye International Conference will take place in Eye Filmmuseum.

An orchestra plays various instruments on stage: including an oud, guitar, piano, percussion and more

Eye Meets Marmoucha

Eye and Marmoucha (a collective for music and culture from North Africa and the Middle East) join forces. Featuring exceptional silent films with live musical accompaniment.

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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.

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Family Day

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

In a futurist image veering on magical realism, a couple kiss as they hover perilously high above a city skyline

still Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US 2024)

Feat or Failure

Rondom Coppola's Megalopolis zijn meer grootse films te zien die later hun tijd ver vooruit bleken, maar in hun eigen tijd niet goed begrepen werden.

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)
© 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.

campaign image Fellini - The Exhibition, still from La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
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.

In a photo by Bertien van Manen from the 1970s, Angela Leerkes (l) and Nicolaine den Breejen (r) check the analogue film in a film projector

© Bertien van Manen

Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien

Eye celebrates the legacy of Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien, which blazed a trail when it came to raising the profile of female filmmakers.

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© René Gast & Yvonne Kroese (wallstories.org)

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
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, 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.

campaign image Found Footage – Cinema Exposed; still from Kristall (Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, 2006)
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)
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.

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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
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.

George Sluizer

Spoorloos, the Netherlands’ best psychological thriller, will soon be released nationwide. 13 other George Sluizer titles will be screen on Eye Film Player.

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, 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, 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.

Ryuichi Sakamoto © nss (zakkubalan)
© nss (zakkubalan)

Holland Festival 2021

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

Icons of Dutch cinema – Matthijs van Heijningen and Guurtje Buddenberg

Iconic film producer Matthijs van Heijningen has turned 80. A selection of the best films he and Guurtje Buddenberg made for Sigma Pictures.

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IDFA 2021

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

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IDFA 2022

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

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IDFA 2023

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

IDFA 2024

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is once again bringing an exciting selection of the world's best documentaries to Eye, from 14 through 24 November.

Stil Careless Crime
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.

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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.

In an overgrown field, the head of a white horse pops up from behind lush, overgrown greenery. In the background there is the facade of wooden houses that have seen better days.
Janis Rafa, Landscape Depressions, 2023. Film still, single-channel video with sound, 25 min. Courtesy the artist © Janis Rafa

Janis Rafa – Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me.

The exhibition by Greek artist and filmmaker Janis Rafa showcases evocative films and video installations that revolve around the relation between humans, animals and landscapes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

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.

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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.

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Kaboom Animation Festival 2024

Kaboom Animation Festival 2024 says: Welcome Home. From 11 through 14 April, the festival explores the theme of home in animation.

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Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2021

The Class of 2021 of the Netherlands Film Academy graduates!

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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.

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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.

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Keep an Eye Filmacademie Festival 2024

Class of 2024 of the Netherlands Film Academy will graduate during the fourteenth edition of the Keep an Eye Film Academy Festival, from 26 June through 7July.

campaign image Kino Ukraïna, still from Zemlya (Earth) (Alexander Dovzhenko, SU 1930)
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.

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© Peter Lindbergh

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.

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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))
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?

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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)
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.

In a colored film still from Les Parisiennes from 1897, a female dancer with a wild mane of curls looks into the camera, smiling, her pink dress blooming in fluttering fabric around her

still Obsessed with Light (Zeva Oelbaum & Sabine Krayenbühl, US/DE/FR 2023)

Meet the Archive 2024

A kaleidoscopic look at the work of the Eye collection’s restorers and curators featuring remarkable, surprising projects that were undertaken over the past year.

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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.

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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.

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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)
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.

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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.

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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.

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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 (R), dressed in dark-coloured 80s clothes, talks with actor Renée Soutendijk (L), dressed in light, frilly turn-of-the-century fashions, on the set of Van de koele meren des doods (Hedwig: The Quiet Lakes) (NL 1982)
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.

In an industrial-looking virtual reality environment, a person reaches their hand towards the camera

still Samsara (Hsin-Chien Huang, 2021)

Nu:Reality

Put on your VR headset and step into a world where you can see the world like never before. Submerge yourself in 360° VR films and interactive installations.

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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.

Against a dark, stormy sky, seagulls swarm around the camera, offering us glimpses of the inside of their wingspan; a still from the film Leviathan by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Leviathan, 2012

Paravel & Castaing-Taylor – Cosmic Realism

Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are continuously looking to create a fresh new film language that goes beyond traditional human-centred perspectives in anthropology.

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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.

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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 2023

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

In a drawn landscape of brightly coloured flowers smoking cigarettes with large clouds of smoke, a small human figure in a purple suit jumps from a flower into the air

still Goodbye Jérôme! (Au revoir Jérôme!) (Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard & Chloé Farr, FR 2022)

Programmers of the Future 2024

Three special programmes in cinemas and on the Eye Film Player

Ramón Gieling © Bob Bronshoff
© Bob Bronshoff

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.

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ResearchLabs 2022

Eye ResearchLabs 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.

A still from an experimental animated film which depicts a head made up of multi-coloured, multi-faceted elements. In the background, white clouds ploom on a sea-green background.

ResearchLabs 2024

During the yearly Research Labs presentations, Eye is a hub for students of academies and universities who flock to present their own work and view that of others.

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(Sojeong Lee, Filmacademie)

ResearchLabs 2025

During the yearly ResearchLabs presentations, Eye is a hub for students of academies and universities who flock to present their own work and view that of others.

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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.

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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)
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.

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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, 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.

In a colourised image based on a black and white poster, a woman wearing a bindi on her forehead looks off to the side as two hands apply a vivid red lipstick to her lips.

Satyajit Ray – In Search of the Modern

Back on the big screen: Indian-Bengali maestro Satyajit Ray. Eye is screening thirteen of his films, alongside a nationwide re-release of restored classic Pather Panchali.

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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.

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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)
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.

Against a sandy, natural background, a person with a mustard-yellow knit hat holds a small black-and-white photograph in their hands

still A Night We Held Between (Noor Abed, PS 2024)

Songs and Scenes from Palestine

Palestinian filmmakers watch and listen attentively to the histories of Palestinians seeking contact with the places where their families have lived for generations.

campaign image Stanley Kubrick – The Exhibition, still from A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
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.

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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.

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illustration © Ted Struwer

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.

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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

Sweet 16 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the revolutionary 16mm film format. You can't get any closer to the beauty of the coarse grain.

Taartrovers Film Festival 2022 © Almicheal Fraay
© Almicheal Fraay

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!

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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.

Various characters from films by Joel and Ethan Coen are depicted against a yellow-orange background

© Erik Kriek

The Coen Brothers Complete

Summer programme centring on Joel and Ethan Coen, the most famous oddballs in Hollywood. Eye will screen all the brothers’ films including the 4K restoration of Blood Simple.

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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.

A female ballet dancer with flaming, red wavy hair and heavy theatre make-up looks over her shoulder into the camera with wide, shocked eyes, her mouth open

still The Red Shoes (Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell, GB 1948)

The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger

Homage to influential European filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who had huge success with The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus.

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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)
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.

campaign image The Man Machine (still from Ex Machina (Alex Garland, GB 2014)
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.

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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.

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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.

This is Film! 2016

Public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage.

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This is Film! 2017

Public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage.

campaign image This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice 2018

This is Film! 2018

Public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage.

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This is Film! 2019

Public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage.

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This is Film! 2021

Public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage.

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still from Aurora Goes to Holland (Jonathon Rosen, 2015)

This is Film! 2022

This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is a public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage.

A close-up of a coloured film strip features rainbow-coloured plumes of smoke in the background, two figures in fairy-like dresses stand on the left and right (campain image This is Film! 2023 (Het tovertoneel (Segundo de Chomón, FR 1907)))
still from Het tovertoneel (Segundo de Chomón, FR 1907)

This is Film! 2023

Public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage, with international guest speakers and film screenings.

Adults sit and stand in the middle of a dark space, facing walls covered in colourful film projections. The projections are video fragments from the Eye collection sorted by colour and theme

© Jordi Wallenburg

This is Film! 2024

Under the theme of ‘Presenting of Audiovisual Collections: Experiments and Explorations’, scholars and professionals present and discuss archival practices and initiatives.

Ali Cherri, The Disquiet
Ali Cherri, The Disquiet

Trembling Landscapes

Eye Filmmuseum presents a group exhibition that explores landscape with some of the Arab world’s most prominent artists who work with film and video.

still from The Deserted (VR) (Tsai Ming-liang, TW 2018)
still from The Deserted (VR) (Tsai Ming-liang, TW 2018)

Tsai Ming-liang

Eye Filmmuseum presents a retrospective of all of the Taiwanese master’s films to accompany Tsai Ming-liang’s first VR production The Deserted.

still from Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, US 1958)

Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, US 1958) (Courtesy of Milestone Films and the Shirley Clarke Estate)

Underground – American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s

Eye highlights the American avant-garde cinema in the 1960s. The exhibition, along with an extensive film programme, features screenings of both iconic and lesser-known works.

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Vive le cinéma! Art & Film

Exhibition with spatial film art by five important directors

still from Beyond Sleep (Nooit meer slapen) (Boudewijn Koole, NL/NO 2016)
still from Beyond Sleep (Nooit meer slapen) (Boudewijn Koole, NL/NO 2016)

W.F. Hermans on film

The 100th anniversary of author Willem Frederik Hermans’ birth will be celebrated with every adaptation of his work.

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Waiting for the Time to Pass

To celebrate Eye's 75th anniversary, we asked seven artists we have worked with o exhibitions in the past to provide a film work for a digital exhibition.

A beach is filled with hundreds of juicy red crabs (still from Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (Werner Herzog, DE 1990); campaign image Werner Herzog – The Ecstatic Truth)
still from Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (Werner Herzog, DE 1990)

Werner Herzog – The Ecstatic Truth

Werner Herzog has fascinated audiences for more than fifty years. In his search for the 'ecstatic truth', Herzog stylises images to reveal a deeper level of truth.

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still from Where Do We Go Now? (Et maintenant on va ou?) (Nadine Labaki, FR/LB/EG/IT 2011)

Where Do We Go Now? – Arabian women behind the camera

Eye shines a light on an amazing trend: the international rise of female filmmakers from the Arab world.

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William Kentridge, More Sweetly Play the Dance (2015)

William Kentridge – If We Ever Get to Heaven

Exhibition featuring work by the celebrated South African artist William Kentridge, who achieved renown with his remarkable animation films, charcoal drawings and installations.

William Kentridge, 10 Drawings for Projection, Other Faces (2011)
William Kentridge, 10 Drawings for Projection, Other Faces (2011)

William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projection

In 2015, William Kentridge donated 10 Drawings for Projection to Eye Filmmuseum. Illuminating the eventful history of South Africa, these films are part of a larger installation.

campaign image Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (Mark Cousins, GB 2019)

Women Make Film

A hidden film history, with women in the lead. We're focusing on a new canon, with work by, among others, Ida Lupino, Věra Chytilová, Mira Nair and Chantal Akerman.

still from In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, HK/FR/CN 2000)
still from In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, HK/FR/CN 2000)

Wong Kar Wai

Six films by the master of restrained emotion. Six films about tragic love, presented in virtuoso framed images. Intoxicating movies, which will you'll fall for in an instant.

On a red background a man sits on a director's chair, the back of the chair reads 'MR STURGES', he looks over his shoulder there at the viewer. Various characters from his films can be seen at the edges of the image.

Written and Directed by Preston Sturges

The best films by Hollywood director Preston Sturges, master of the nineteen-forties screwball comedy, can now be seen again on the big screen.