Filmmagie: Amsterdam versieren
Filmmagie: Amsterdam versieren
Hip-hip hooray! Amsterdam is celebrating and we will be putting up celluloid bunting. Film magic means making and watching. Discover the magic of celluloid met short films and animations from Eye’s collection, almost all of which are set in Amsterdam.
After the film there will be creative activities for children that help them discover how analog film projectors create the illusion of movement from a film strip. To commemorate Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary the children will decorate film strips of Amsterdam’s canals and make the city extra special and festive! Afterwards the kids and their parents/supervisors can watch the wondrous, colourful new Amsterdam film together.
Programme
Tram (Olga van den Brandt, NL 2020, 3')
We board a tram on its route through the city. Past Amsterdamse Bos, we travel through the Oud-Zuid and Jordaan neighbourhoods on our way to the Centraal Station. From the tram, we can see all manner of groups going about their daily business. In the tram, their lives temporarily meet and they are transported through one another’s neighbourhoods. Outside the tram, we see snippets of their interconnected lives.
Zoo (Bert Haanstra, NL 1962, 12')
The Artis zoo makes a great place to watch both humans and animals. With a hidden camera, Bert Haanstra records the public’s reactions from the animals’ perspective. Zoo is a short, poetic impression of the archetypal facial expressions and behaviour of the visitors and the similar or contrasting behaviour of the animals. The question remains: who's watching who? Moreover, Haanstra demonstrates to what extent human behaviour is comparable to that of the zoo’s inhabitants. The voyeuristic footage is surprising and replete with visual humour that is underlined by the perfectly attuned score. In the meantime, Zoo provides a wonderful of impression of Amsterdam in the early 1960s.
Through You (Lucette Braune, NL 2013, 8')
A short, imaginative story about a girl who literally has to struggle through the crowds of people in the city to run a simple errand.
Chicago Footwarmers (Ton van Saane, NL 1967, 3')
Abstract shapes drawn directly onto celluloid move to the jazz of the Chicago Footwarmers.
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Details
Length
81 min.
Event language
Dutch
Country
NL
Part of
Filmmagie
Filmmagie [Film Magic] is watching and making. Discover the magic of cinema with short animations from Eye’s extensive collection. After watching the film, there is a creative activity for the children, in which they get to work with the movement of images.
Discovery route for families
Children aged 4 through 12 and their parents or guardians can take on Eye's Mission Supereyes discovery route, which criss-crosses through the museum building. Pick up the booklet when you visit the What is Film exhibition and discover the superpowers in your eyes!
Share your love for film and become a member of the Eye Society.