From 9-11 June 2021, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) will be hosting a conference on ‘Studies in Belonging’. Taking place in a hybrid form in Amsterdam, the conference will be organized around six topical threads: “Place-attachment and Mobility”, “Community and the Individual”, “Practices of Belonging”, “Borders and […]
The Eye Film Museum Amsterdam has announced the new date for the previously postponed solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman: ‘Chantal Akerman: Passages’, organized in collaboration with the Chantal Akerman Foundation & Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, London, New York, will be open from 1 June – 30 August 2020. The exhibition features eight of […]
Every collective, no matter if a family, an academic discipline, or a nation, is in need of a story that provides an origin as well as a destiny and purpose, but this story – being an aesthetic object in itself – also contains a surplus, something that reaches beyond the sheer functionality of providing an […]
From 23 to 27 May 2020, the annual EYE International Conference hosts the biennial Orphan Film Symposium, in collaboration with NYU Cinema Studies and the Tisch School of the Arts. Taking place at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam, the event is devoted to saving, studying, and screening neglected audiovisual media. The theme of […]
In 2012 EYE, the former Nederlands Filmmuseum, moved to its new building, gaining two additional theatres and an exhibition venue. This allowed increasing the frequency of exhibitions, their variety, and the flow of visitors, in line with the expectations of current cultural and fund polices. In a couple of years, EYE shifted from mainly a […]
From 15 June to 27 August 2018, EYE Film Institute Netherlands will present the virtual reality installation CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) by director Alejandro González Iñárritu. During the summer the installation will run in Amsterdam as part of EYE’s Xtended series, which focuses on debate-sparking virtual reality projects by filmmakers and artists. […]
The program of the 12th annual NECS Conference, which will take place from 27-29 June 2018 in Amsterdam, is now available online. Keynote speakers for the conference include Henry Jenkins (University of South California), Lisa Parks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Kiki Tianqi Yu (University of the West of Scotland). NECS Conference activities will take […]
On Saturday the 30th of June from 14.30-17h Café Chercher will organise an afternoon of unfinished research projects for the Cinema and Contemporary Visual Art workgroup (CCVA) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Doelenzaal at the University Library (Singel 425, Amsterdam). This is an hors-conference event following the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies 2018 Conference (NECS): Media Tactics and Engagement (27-29 June) which is hosted by […]
CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University are happy to present The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement 27-29 June 2018 Hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam Pre-Conference Media in Transition 26 June 2018 Hosted by Utrecht University Post-Conference […]
The NECS 2018 conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam, organised by NECSUS editorial board members Patricia Pisters and Jaap Kooijman, among others. Kooijman has created a short video to announce the conference. More details coming in the months to follow.
This article focuses on the strategies developed by two Northern European documentary film festivals – International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) – to position themselves in the international festival ecosystem and develop a differentiated identity.[1] Over the past ten years I have been conducting research at documentary film […]
NECSUS editor Patricia Pisters has published a book titled Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren. This is the first monograph on the filmmaker to be published in English. The promotion of the book was held on 22 November 2015 in Amsterdam at the cultural center Paradiso and included the presence of the […]
For the third time at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), IDFA DocLab and de Brakke Grond present a joint themed program on the documentary and the digital revolution. This year’s theme is titled: Seamless Reality. A total of thirty installations and interactive projects can be seen and experienced at the free DocLab: Seamless Reality Exhibition, including […]
SPUI25 in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam is hosting a workshop on open access publishing on 17 April 2015 at 14.30h. Using NECSUS as a core case study, questions concerning the future of scholarly publishing will be addressed. NECSUS editors Annie van den Oever and Patricia Pisters serve as […]
NECSUS editor and University of Amsterdam professor Patricia Pisters has written a short article titled ‘Jams, Loops and Downward Spirals in the Academic System’ which is translated and reprinted on the Rethink UvA website. The article was written in conjunction with the student and staff protests at the University of Amsterdam and their efforts to […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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