For the FilmDakFilms launch, we've selected films shot in Rotterdam by local filmmakers, and you are invited on Saturday 21 between 17:00 -20:00.
OVERALL PROGRAMME during GRAW 24 weekend - Sat 21 & Sun 22 Sept ---> 11:00 - 17:00
Lavinia Xausa: So Loud The Sky Can Hear Us (2022), 20'40"
This short explores the identity of a group of Feyenoord supporters. They unfold a hidden world of faith, love, compassion, and vulnerability. As Xausa attempts to trace back the 'lost voice of God' among the voices of the supporters, she wonders how the lost monophony of ancient chants may turn into a new polyphony.
Sam Koopman: Work(ing Together) in Process (2024) 46'
Two strangers met in a sex shop. With differing motivations, they began a multi-year film project. Work(ing Together) in Process is a desktop film essay performing an autopsy upon their comically tragic collaboration and relationship.
Ugo Petronin: Ninfa Fluida (2024) 17'
We listen to an eighteenth-century poem by the Rotterdam bard Dirk Smits, that regales the myth of the Rotte river. While we hear the stream being likened to a shapeshifting nymph, we see images of the mysterious flatworm. Behind this tiny, writhing water creature, lies a wonderous world of regeneration and the microscopically small worm as an important object of scientific study.
INSTALLATIONS
Panida Petchara (Te): Dream Weaver 555 (2024)
The newly released enigmatic amulet 'Dream Weaver 555' promises to unlock the gateway to realizing dreams, offering hope beyond reach where wishes materialize within the depths of dreams.
Tess Martin: Four Bedroom Shared House (2023)
Can a house ever really belong to one person, or to a specific time period? In this work in progress, Tess Martin uses archives, personal memories and the philosophy of time to investigate our desire to leave traces by taking one house in Rotterdam as a starting point.
Frank Hanswijk, is a photographer with a camera in his pocket recording where he is and what he sees. This series is the frayed Rotterdam of the 1990s with neighborhoods like Feijenoord, the Nieuwe Westen, and Delfshaven. Taken at a time when smartphones did not yet exist, and people did not yet take control over their portraits, he could move around Rotterdam day and night where people joyfully posed for or figured in his pictures.
SHORTS
Yana Lineva: How I Started Worrying And Learned To Hear The Bomb
s (2024) 3:26
The city’s landscape is repeatedly torn by a brutal sound – but is anyone awake to hear it?
Toto Kersten: The Cruise from Tallinn (2024) 4:03
This film weaves together an exploration of cruise tourism and the plight of refugees housed on former cruise ships in Rotterdam. Toto Kersten seeks to navigate conflicting narratives and personal impossibilities.
Jingfeng Shen: Copper Dream (2024) 4:03'
My father’s childhood, our country’s history, and my personal situation in a new country overlapped across time and space by an approximation of a private letter.
Lau Zautsen: Something behind glass (2024) 3:59
The visual essay ‘There’s Something Behind Glass’ invites us on an emotional thought process where two unrelated events around desire are compressed in one expressive journey. The film asks us the question: what do a grindr date that never happens and silverback gorilla Bokito that tried to escape have in common?
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