
Shell Shock: The power of storytelling
The tormented Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, the soldiers suffering from PTSS in the documentary Crazy and the ex-tank commander of the animated film Waltz with Bashir share one thing: the urge to tell what happened to them in order to come to grips with it. Eye’s Shell Shock provides a forum to the cinematic representation of violent conflicts and traumatic memories.
processing of the past
Fiction, in all its forms, often turns out to be the key to processing the past: from psychothriller (Jacob's Ladder, Adrian Lyne) and historical drama (Mrs. Dalloway, Marleen Gorris) to the suspense in the artful animation La casa lobo (Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal Leon).
specials
Shell Shock not only includes films but also socially engaged specials featuring talks, Q&As and performances. The programme focuses on such themes as memories and narrativity (Hannah Arendt), psychiatry (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) and the tales of Syrian refugees (storytelling). With a special edition of Cinema Stadsleven by Tracy Metz.
Full programme
From A to Z
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film
Airplane!
Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker, 1980 -
special
An Evening About Amar Kanwar
special, 2019 -
special
An Evening with Broomberg & Chanarin
special, 2019 -
special
An Evening with Omer Fast
special, 2019 -
film
Catch-22
Mike Nichols, 1970 -
film and music
Cinema Concert: A Couple of Down and Outs
Walter Summers, 1923 -
special
Cinema Stadsleven: Shell Shock
special, 2019 -
film
Combat Shock
Buddy Giovinazzo, 1986 -
film
Continuity
Omer Fast, 2016 -
film
Crazy
Heddy Honigmann, 1999 -
film
Dheepan
Jacques Audiard, FR 2015 -
film
Die Mörder sind unter uns
Wolfgang Staudte, 1946 -
event
Eye Havendiner
havendiner, 2019 -
film
First Blood
Ted Kotcheff, 1982 -
film
First Kill
Coco Schrijber, 2001 -
film
Flat Earth
Monique Verhoeckx, 2014 -
film
Full Contact
David Verbeek, 2015 -
film
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais, 1959 -
film and music
J'accuse
Abel Gance, 1919 -
film
Jacob's Ladder
Adrian Lyne, 1990 -
film
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo, 1971 -
film
La casa lobo
Cristóbal León and Joaquin Cociña, 2018 -
film
Let There Be Light
John Huston, 1946 -
film compilation
Meiro Koizumi - Shorts
special, 2019 -
film
Mrs. Dalloway
Marleen Gorris, 1997 -
film
New Homeland
Barbara Kopple, 2018 -
film
Notes from Aleppo
Issa Touma, 2019 -
film
Of Men and War
Laurent Bécue-Renard, 2014 -
film
Remainder
Omer Fast, 2015 -
virtual reality
Sacrifice (VR)
Meiro Koizumi, JP 2018 -
film
Samouni Road
Stefano Savona, 2018 -
opening
Shell Shock: Opening Night
special, 2019 -
film and music
So it Goes (muziektheater)
special, 2019 -
film
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese, 1976 -
film
The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn, 2012 -
film
The Atomic Soldiers
Morgan Knibbe, 2018 -
film
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Kazuo Hara, JP 1987 -
film
The Manchurian Candidate
John Frankenheimer, 1962 -
special
Theater Na de Dam: Retourtje Polen
Theater Na de Dam, 2019 -
film
Theatre of War
Lola Arias, 2018 -
film
Voir du pays
Muriel Coulin and Delphine Coulin, 2017 -
film
Waltz with Bashir
Ari Folman, 2008 -
lecture
War and the Screen Machine: Film Lecture by Patricia Pisters
film lecture, 2019 -
film
Zomer zonder mama
Sanne Vogel, 2019