Unexpected Encounters
Architectures of Intimacy: Unexpected Encounters
A collection of shorts exploring different interpretations of intimacy, travelling from rush hour in the train to the contents of a handbag.
The short films in this programme explore how certain spaces and objects allow for unexpected perspectives on intimacy, offering us a chance to reflect on how we move and behave in relation to others.
Multifaceted and ambiguous, these films reveal a poetic and symbolic side to the spaces and objects of our daily lives, ranging from an encounter in a subway or bathhouse, or the way we look at a handbag.
The programme will be introduced by Kato van der Speeten, curator of Architectures of Intimacy.
Programme
SMRT PIECE (Charlotte Bee Her Hong, SG 2022, 5’)
While driving, a couple discusses travelling with public transportation, sketching and observing and being observed in this hybrid triptych.
Subway (Holly Fisher, US 1968, 7’)
During rush hour, an underground train fills and empties. Images appear out of the blue, as sudden thoughts or memories.
Lake and I (Park So-Hyun, KR 2022, 13’)
After Jeonghyun helps clean the bathhouse run by her friend Hosu’s family, they bathe together. Their day flows by like water.
What Is In A Girl’s Handbag? (Katrīna Neiburga, LV 2002, 29’)
What happens when you ask women in the bathroom of a nightclub what is in their handbag?
Mode der taschjes te Parijs (Onbekend, FR 1924, 3’)
The newest handbag fashions from Paris, for morning, afternoon and evening.
Irani Bag (Maryam Tafakory, IR/SG/GB 2020, 8’)
Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay exploring the symbolism of bags in Iranian cinema.
16 through 18 July, Kato van der Speeten will also present the dreamy, poetic virtual reality experience In the Mist.
In collaboration with art cooperative Espacio Estamos Bien, an installation will be presented in the bathrooms near the box office, which will be festively opened on 16 July at 20:30.
This is part of
Details
Production year
2025
Length
75 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
Programmers of the Future 2025
Three new Programmers of the Future present their film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum this July. With films about the magic of a spontaneous encounter in a public space, about folklore, fairy tales and mythology, and about memory as an act of resistance.
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Programmer of the Future Kato van der Speeten selected several films to watch at home, including Metal and Melancholy by Heddy Honigmann and Simone van den Broek’s Haarzaak. The films will be available from 8 July.
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