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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 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.

In an illustration on a pink background, abstract colourful shapes make up a multitude of clown-like faces expressing different emotions

Cinemini

Every Sunday morning, children aged 2 to 6 are treated to a film, followed by experiments with light and shadow in small play tents.

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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© René Gast & Yvonne Kroese (wallstories.org)

Eye Classics

Eye now brings film history even closer with Eye Classics. On the big screen, screened in 35mm whenever possible.

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.

still from Cloacinae Serge Onnen & Sverre Fredriksen, NL 2017)
still from Cloacinae Serge Onnen & Sverre Fredriksen, NL 2017)

Eye on Art

Ongoing series with programming on the intersection between film and other arts.

Eye on Sound: live music in Eye's arena
Eye on Sound: live music in Eye's arena

Eye on Sound

Eye focuses on the dynamic relationship between sound and vision in different thematic programmes. Together they are Eye on Sound.

In a brightly coloured illustration, a green frog looks at the white building of Eye, which some people say looks like a sitting frog

Filmmagie

Filmmagie is watching and making. Discover the magic of cinema with short animations from Eye’s extensive collection. The children will draw their own flipbooks.

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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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Koolhoven & Simons

Martin Koolhoven and Ronald Simons present a monthly ode to genre cinema. A tribute to rarely screened trailers and forgotten classics, where possible in 35mm.

In a virtual reality environment, a virtual rendering of a flower is shown. Small white petals appear from larger purple blooms against a black background.

still Floating with Spirits (Juanita Onzaga, BE/LU/MX/NL 2022)

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.

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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Previously Unreleased

Selected for (inter)national festivals, but never shown in Dutch cinemas on wide release. Every summer, Eye puts an end to this injustice with Previously Unreleased.

On an empty beach, five figures in long white skirts with torches stand around a single bed where a person lies under a white sheet; still from The Garden by Derek Jarman
still from The Garden (Derek Jarman, GB 1990)

Restored & Unseen

Restored classics and rediscovered films, with introductions by experts.

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.

Xtended: Venice VR Expanded in Eye © Tibor Dieters
Xtended: Venice VR Expanded in Eye © Tibor Dieters

Virtual Reality in Eye

Virtual Reality in Eye presents VR experiences by artists and filmmakers that offer alternative and challenging views of our world, touch our emotions, and make us stop and think.