Art Directions 2025
Art Directions is the space where the festival steps out of the screening room and pushes the limits of what cinema can be. At galleries and artistic spaces across Rotterdam, encounter cinema in surprising forms: immersive media, performances, live music and visual art.
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Art Directions: performances
Audiovisual art and technology meet in our immersive media programme. During IFFR 2024, you can experience different interactive virtual reality projects.
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Art Directions: immersive media
The Immersive Media programme at IFFR 2025 invites audiences to step into transformative experiences that merge tradition, technology, and storytelling in groundbreaking ways. Together, these works redefine immersive art as a medium for cultural reflection and personal transformation.
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Art Directions: installations
Katoenhuis will host four installations – including the world premiere of La Quema (del planeta ‘B’) by Francisco Baquerizo Racines – showcasing IFFR’s commitment to visual and sensory exploration.
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Art Directions: sound//vision
The sound//vision programme at WORM returns for six nights, offering a series of live audio-visual performances that merge music with film, celluloid, and light. For the first time fully co-curated by IFFR and WORM, this cutting-edge showcase transforms the traditional concert experience into an immersive exploration of sound and imagery.
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Art Directions City Walk
Every year, IFFR expands the programme with installations, immersive media, exhibitions, music and performances in the adventurous and multidisciplinary Art Directions programme.
Art Directions City Walk
On display in Katoenhuis
Visit four installations in Katoenhuis, hub for Immersive Experiences, with one ticket.
A list of films
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Alice, Bob, Carol and David
Generative choreography and digital theatre converge in Viktor Timofeev’s quest for arbitrariness and control.
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Brown Bodies in an Open Landscape are Often Migrating
Basir Mahmood explores the void between migrant experiences and media portrayal.
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Extramission: The Capture of Glowing Eyes
Through image technology we witness acts of conservation and repatriation from London to Argentina.
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La Quema (del Planeta “B”)
Cultural rituals offer us a new perspective on colonial history and capitalist structures.
Visit Art Directions on other locations
Some of the installations you can be visited free of charge: Faces of Rotterdam, Safe.Senf.Sense, Silent Engine, En Passant and Happy New Year. For performances Safe.Self.Sense, sound//vision and Brutus x IFFR you will have to get a ticket.
A list of films
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En Passant
With an eye for togetherness and perspective, En Passant explores meeting and connecting in public space.
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Safe.Self.Sense
Through dance, image and sound the collective shaping and loss of the pandemic is explored.
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Happy New Year
Jinjoon Lee’s reveals the contradiction between utopian illusions and the reality of crises.
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Faces of Rotterdam: A Glimpse into Our 170+ Nationalities
Faces of Rotterdam celebrates the city with portraits and stories of a thriving community.
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Silent Engine
Silent Engine reveals how technological progress excludes vulnerable groups and increases inequality.
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Immersive Media: Otherworlds + Revival Roadshow
This programme features two Immersive Media works: Otherworlds by Sophia Bulgakova and Revival Roadshow
Immersive Media: Lacuna + Rave
This programm features two Immersive Media works: Lacuna by Maartje Wegdam and Nienke Huitenga and Rave
Show Me the Light — VR Silent Disco
A virtual and rhythmic journey that, reimagining the silent disco, immerses us in search of light.
Brutus x IFFR: C.A.N.V.A.S
The first of two performances at Brutus hosted during IFFR is presented by the artists’ record label and event series C.A.N.V.A.S., founded b
Brutus x IFFR: Temporary Pleasure
Temporary Pleasure invites musicians, artists and audiences to share a collective musical experience at Brutus.
sound//vision: liminal light
A sensory journey through light, sound, scent and 16mm film, exploring the spaces in between.
sound//vision: LUF Scope
A live cinema experience that fluctuates in the illusory distance between the image and the screen.