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.

Sleepy Eyes will show 19 contemporary visual films by 16 international artists, projected onto windows in the street. The opening will take place at …ism project space (Westeinde 31A) on Friday 6 February at 8 p.m. During the festival, you can also visit it daily from 8 p.m. to midnight to pick up the programme guide, drinks, snacks and to have a good conversation.

We hope to see you on Friday or on one of the other days of the festival.
(a visit on Friday 6 February can also be combined with simultaneous openings at Stroom Den Haag and 1646)

Here is the website of SEFF.

My work for the Alkmaar Regional Archives consists of preparing 8 mm, Super8 and 16 mm films for scanning. That may sound like a simple task, but the variety of film formats, film emulsions and the different conditions of each reel really require experience and knowledge of photochemical film. I thoroughly enjoy doing it.

My collaboration with chief curator Jesse van Dijl, who is passionate and energetic about preserving 8 mm footage for the future, is wonderful. Jesse wants to use all the films – now hidden in the archive – to tell stories, and I am happy to help.

This film premiered on Wednesday, 10 December 2025, and I was fortunate enough to attend. During the screening, I noticed that the audience was deeply engaged with what was being shown on the big screen. Emotions, recognition, experience and pride were all visible. It was a very successful premiere, and I heard that all screenings through Christmas 2025 were already sold out.

Also view the website of Historische Vereniging Alkmaar, or click here to go directly to the interview with Erik Willems, the director. Guido Bruin digitized the 8 mm films for this documentary.

On Saturday October 11th 2025.
From 11:30 am until 15:30 pm local time.
Location: Worm, Boomgaardstraat 71
3012 XA Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Free admission.

In 1965, Kodak launched Super8 film. This easy-to-use, small film format was immensely popular in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It was dethroned by the video recorder, but now it’s back! We’re celebrating 60 years of Super8 during Global Super8 Day!

Joost Schrickx – director
Hans Bouma – camera
Wouter Veldhuis – sound
Jos Driessen – editor
Habbo Beem – music and soundmix
Hugo de Wolf – research
Stichting Pelicula – producer – www.pelicula.nl

If you want to learn more about this great person Hugo Wilmar, I can reccomend the website from the Hugo Wilmar Foundation.

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.