Movies: Eye Film Institute Netherlands

In the 1940s, Alima decides to flee from an arranged marriage to work as a nanny for a Dutch family. Through all her new impressions and thoughts, she looks critically at colonial society and her own position....

Documentary about the tempestuous music scene of Amsterdam during the late ’70s and early ’80s, consisting of never-before-seen recordings of Herman Brood songs as well as the chaotic shoots for the film Cha Cha (1979), starring Herman Brood and Nina...

In the nineteenth century, a French adventurer sets off to establish a kingdom in the inhospitable South of Chile, uniting the feared Mapuche under him. The response of the Chilean army is devastating....

An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They ar...

In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories. In a fasc...

A young boy plays an accordion in a shopping mall. Béla Tarr picks up the camera one more time to shoot his very last scene. It is his anger about how refugees are treated in Europe, and especially in Hungary, that drove him to make a statement....

The insecure genderqueer Jae wants to make their mother proud by including her in their life. When their mother attempts to keep contact to a minimum, Jae confronts her in vain....

An actress and an actor overhear parts of the play "Three Travelers Watch Sunrise" by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The dialogues of the three [Chinese] travelers and the girl [Anna] are spoken as a monologue by the actress. The actor just listens but...

A project making innovative use of existing archive images of Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). The original film shows the city in straightforward shots and camera movements. Due to deterioration these images changed in a dramatic way. In t...

Short film compilation arranged by Paul for Moskwood & the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, 4:3 | Colour | DD2.0...

Drifting between data and images and hovering amidst seemingly incompatible moods: Tarkovsky’s cinematic dreams on the one hand and Zonnestraal’s utopian architecture on the other. Sanatorium Zonnestraal (1928): Famous symbol of enlightened rational...

Video essay on the work of Jia Zhangke by Kevin B. Lee, specially commissioned by Eye Filmmuseum and IFFR as a response to the installation Close-Up....

Eleven thousand photos, six miles of footage, three hundred books and eighteen volumes of Indië Oud en Nieuw: this is the historical legacy of Hendrik Tillema, who was born in Friesland and worked his way up to a successful producer of carbonated dri...

Slide of Life was created by Thomas Bruinsma, Fleur Sophie de Boer, Jeroen Koelewijn from Utrecht School of Arts in a collaborative project of A Million Pictures. The short film used digital images of lantern slides from the collections of our partne...

From a sea full of icebergs tinkling rising green hills. Winding roads and a forest of scaffolding overgrow the virgin landscape. There stands the city, dark and unapproachable. But when night falls and the lights turn on, the water returns. Manufact...