New Selected Artist's Moving Image
Eye on Art: New Selected Artist's Moving Image
New work by Dutch artists and experimental filmmakers that was recently added to Eye’s collection. Including six short films by filmmakers and artists Karel Doing, Aileen Ye, Quenton Miller, Firat Yücel, Astrit Ismaili and Thana Faroq both emerging artists and established names.
The new collection films are promoted by Eye to international festivals. The selection highlights recent trends in the artist’s film and the short experimental film. Most of the filmmakers featured in the program will be present for a Q&A.
Programme
Koki, Ciao (Quenton Miller, NL 2025, 11’)
Co-written, narrated, and featuring sound effects by Koki, a 67 year old speaking cockatoo owned by Tito, this experimental documentary features footage and images from state archives of Koki, Tito, Khrushchev, Sukarno, and Sophia Loren.
Imagine Me Like a Country of Love (Thana Faroq, NL/YE/QA 2026, 20’)
A fragmented, poetic short film about memory, belonging, and the return to a place reshaped by conflict. Shot between Yemen and the Netherlands, the film contemplates what happens when we disturb the memories we left behind. Through archival photographs, everyday footage, and intimate voice recordings, it offers a quiet reflection on grief, absence, and the contradictions of remembering.
How to Dance (Aileen Ye, NL/GB 2026, 9’)
Bodies cannot speak freely under surveillance. So the question is, what can the body speak? How to Dance searches for forms of expression that exist beyond the verbal, asking what kinds of truths, refusals, and desires can be conveyed through the physical.
Happiness (Firat Yücel, NL/TR 2025, 18’)
Assembled from stories about sleep disorders, Happiness is a desktop diary that reflects the state of mind of a hypothetical person residing in Amsterdam, watching the horrors of our time on a computer/phone screen.
A Patriot of these Woods (Karel Doing, GB/NL 2025, 10’)
Inspired by the novel The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, filmmaker Karel Doing places himself as the protagonist of this escapade into unseen ecologies. The secret medicinal properties of plants are shared, along with their peculiar characteristics. Trees, leaves, flowers and soil all come to life in Doing’s signature “phytographic” technique.
Flutura (Astrit Ismaili, NL 2025, 7’)
Flutura reimagines ancestral Kosovo women’s tools as futuristic body-extension tech. Inspired by the tradition Kange me Tepsi, where singing into spinning pans turns utensils into sonic devices, the film explores early analog voice processing and redefines the body as a living interface for emerging technologies.
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Production year
2026
Length
121 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
Eye on Art
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