Leendert de Jong and Elisa Mutsaers, organisers and film experts, are seizing the opportunity to showcase The Hague’s rich film history. The year-long programme kicks off on Saturday, 6 June with an open-air screening on the Scheveningen promenade in front of the Kurhaus. This will be followed by exhibitions, themed walks, film programmes, talks, and the book Film in The Hague.

Exhibitions
In collaboration with The Hague Municipal Archives, the Filmblik exhibition will be on display from Monday 8 June to 7 September at De Galerij in the tram tunnel beneath the Spui.

Film Walks
On 25 and 26 June, there will be special film walks led by Judith Moortgat, focusing on locations where films have been shot.

Lectures
The Super8 Reversal Lab will be giving a talk later in 2027. It is currently mapping out historic film laboratories in The Hague and will present the findings of that research during the Film in The Hague year, whilst also exploring what actually happens inside a film laboratory.

Keep up to dat via the website.

In an informal setting, several short films from Francien’s extensive oeuvre, which have been screened at national and international festivals, will be shown.

She also shows images from the film she is currently working on: “Walkabout.”

Her film installation “The Alchemist’s Almanac to the Afterlife” can be seen at De Ruit until Sunday, February 8. The installation can be viewed from the street from morning until late at night. The address is Gedempte Zalmhaven 761, Rotterdam (Leuvehaven metro stop, near the Erasmus Bridge).

Francien van Everdingen (1969; Eethen) studied sculpture in Groningen and Tilburg, followed by cinematography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Film became her medium. She calls herself a “film-maker”: compact films, often ultra-short.

Thomas is a long-time friend of the S8RL. He is a passionate artist who creates surprising images on super8 film every time. Put 10 scenes in a row and you can easily pick out Bogaert’s work. This Belgian artist has a very specific style of his own. Creating moving paintings or paintings moving.

More information about Thomas work.

Their initiative ‘the film can’ produced many short 16mm films that are still very good to watch after almost 20 years. This is because restrictions had been imposed. Each invited artist was given a 16mm film can of 120 metres which has a shooting time of 10 minutes. The production tools were in place and there was a small budget, that was what had to be done with. In short, only people with good ideas and plans could make this a success.

Now a small selection will be screened at EYE on 28 November 2023 at 7.15pm. Filmstad Foundation has screened many film can films at the Paard venue in The Hague, where I was also a film projectioniast at the time. Order your tickets from EYE here.

Back to the Future #3 is a 3-day festival that is all about analogue moving images and optical sound; a celebration of the ‘real’ film medium with an international programme of audio-visual performances, films, lectures, installations and radio programmes.

This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 16mm (celluloid) film format. In 1923 Eastman Kodak launched the 16mm as a cheaper alternative to the industrial 35mm format, and, in the following decades, it was taken up as the film format of choice for experimental artistic film.

Back to the Future is initiated by the members of Filmwerkplaats and is supported by WORM and SPECTRAL and co-funded by the European Union

Experimental 16 mm cinema by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie

Wednesday 27 September at Stichting Ruimtevaart, Helena van Doeverenplantsoen 3, 2512ZB in Den Haag, Netherlands
Cinema open 8 pm, starting at 8:30 pm
Admission € 10,00, cash only, also at the bar, read here all details

A programme of short films by Australian experimental Filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie that take us from windswept coasts to pulsating mega cities. The work revels in the energy of place as expressed through rhythmic movements of light and shadow and the wash of time as dissected into frames in the camera and reconstituted into flickering flow by the projector.
 
In and Out a Window  16mm, 2021, 12 mins
Our front window, from inside and out. Made during a long covid lockdown. A product of the distraction and abstraction that resulted from a lot of staring at the same pieces of glass. View clip.
 
Intersection 16mm, 2022, 10 mins
A staccato study of street level action and inter-action. People and vehicles on everyday journeys are atomised into coursing fragments of light, shadow, angle and inertia, reiterating and disassembling the creation of motion out of still frames at the heart of cinema. Filmed in ten cities on four continents. View clip.
 
Like a Lighthouse  2023, 12 mins
A blinding beam of light. The piercing sound of ships. Everything – the land, plants, the sky – shouts for attention. Perceptions assail us with their demands to be noticed. This film is kind of a home movie of a 5 day hike to the southern most tip of Australia.
 
Bus, Turning  2022, 7 mins
Barcelona, immediately after the independence referendum. Shot on black and white film stock using a re-invented colour separation technique. Dedicated to the spirit of independence everywhere!
 
Valpi  2019, 9 mins
A city of brick, tin and board, rent by internal tectonics and sliding into the sea.

Self Portrait with Bag  2020, 6 mins
A camera-less portrait of the artist. Super 8 cartridges placed inside a black cotton bag, the film advanced via a hand crank. The tiny gaps in the fabric weave make for dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of tiny pinholes. View clip.
 
China not China  2018, 14 mins
Hong Kong marked 20 years since its hand over; just under half way through the planned 50 year ‘one country, two systems’ transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China. View clip.

See some clips on the Vimeo page.

Here you can read a very good article in The Guardian.

While this may sound like a fairytale, their dream comes hand in hand with challenges. They are faced with different sides of reality that, once uncovered, shed a new light onto how living a dream can also look like.

This film will be realized with a crowdfunding action on voordekunst.nl.

The original super8 film materiaal is developed by S8RL.

If you’re wondering why the colours are so “crazy,” it’s because the band chose not to digitally adjust them, but to leave them as they were when the original film came out of the chemical bath.

The band Hallo Venray is from Den Haag and one-of-a-kind, with its own sound and a refreshing no-nonsense attitude. Excellent.