IFFR 2011

Kids in Space15:30-18:30 Children from 4 to 12 years old, are welcome in our professional child-care centre, offering them an opportunity to join in workshops. Today's workshop at 16:30: Make a slapstick movie with The Great Abnerio!Child-care is free of charge with the XL-pass. Booking is essential through: the festival website or Central Box Office in de Doelen.Booking for the workshop is essential. Please call: 06-15580633 of mail naar notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

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Kids in Space & Kitchen Secrets: Abner Preis Workshop Part 2

Kids in Space15:30-18:30 Children aged 4 to 12 are welcome in our professional child care centre, offering them an opportunity to join in workshops. Today's workshop: Scratch me! by Esther Urlus.Child care is free of charge with an XL-pass. Booking is essential. Please call 06-15580633 or mail to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.Booking for the workshops is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kids in Space & Kitchen Secrets: Esther Urlus Workshop

Kids in Space15:30-18:30 Children aged 4 to 12 are welcome in our professional child care centre, offering them an opportunity to join in workshops. Today's workshop at 16:30: A special selection of Super-8 films. Child care is free of charge with an XL-pass. Booking is essential. Please call 06-15580633 or mail to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.Booking for the workshop is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kids in Space & Kitchen Secrets: Home Movies

Kids in Space15:30-18:30Children aged 4 to 12 are welcome in our professional crèche, where they can also join in with workshops. Today's workshop at 16:30 is on The Art of the Overhead.Child care is free of charge with an XL-pass. Booking is essential. Please call 06-15580633 or mail to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.Booking for the workhop is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kids in Space & Kitchen Secrets: Low-Tech.NL Workshop

Kids in Space15:30-18:30Children aged 4 to 12 are welcome in our professional crèche, where they can take part in workshops. Today's workshop: Collage Party; Cut and paste from noon till midnight!Child care is free of charge with an XL pass. Booking is essential and can be done by calling 06 15580633 or sending an email to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.Booking for the workshop is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kids in Space & Kitchen Secrets: Paul Butler Collage Party

Not Kidding also wants to give the littlest ones (and their parents) the chance to catch the IFFR film bug, without having to sit still in the dark. Come and enjoy a specially compiled menu in a relaxed atmosphere. The snacks are delicious, as are the short films!Tickets are available for € 7 from the IFFR box office.

Kids in Space: Baby Brunch

The festival offers film-loving parents the opportunity to lodge their children with a professional child care centre. Children aged 4 to 12 are welcome in playful surroundings, decorated with cinematographic elements, offering them an opportunity to join in workshops.Child care is free of charge with an XL pass. Booking is essential. Please call 06-15580633 or mail to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kids in Space: Disney Disco

Children aged 4 to 12 are welcome in this professional child care centre with filmic elements. Kids have the opportunity to join in with workshops. Today: Endless Forest; a multiplayer game in an idyllic and peaceful setting. All the players are deer.Child care is free of charge with an XL pass. Booking is essential. Please call 06-15580633 or mail to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kids in Space: Endless Forest

Join in slapstick? The Great Abnerio is a fictional character from the storyteller and visual artist Abner Preis. In Not Kidding, he puts together a circus show and a film about this ‘superhero’ in cooperation with his colleague Wes Westenburger, a former circus artiste who is now in a wheelchair.Booking for the workshop is essential. Please call 06-15580633 or mail to notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

Kitchen Secrets: Abner Preis Workshop #1

This Japanese artist reveals several kitchen secrets about his i3DG equipment. It was developed for both iPod, iPad and a 30 inch screenaand evokes a virtual animated world. The demo on YouTube got a million hits in a record time. Samsung, Hollywood and Bollywood are already knocking on his door.Booking for the workshop is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Kitchen Secrets: Maki Ueda and the Palmtop Theatre

You find them everywhere, in e-mails and on websites. Animated Graphics Interchange Format files are the most minimal of animation films and are an undervalued form of folk art. The supply is endless, but also very ephemeral and temporary. High time for a small cultural history of the animated GIF!Booking for the workshop is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Kitchen Secrets: Roderik Bosensell Animated Gifs

How do you direct sincerity? How can you manipulate with a camera? The participants practise presenting themselves in front of the camera. First as naturally as possible, then they start acting (in this case lying). Anything goes, including a tear stick. Are you always so honest?Booking for the workshop is essential through notkidding@filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Kitchen Secrets: Theatergroep Max Acteren voor de Camera

Rochette and Claes have compiled their debut-film from public video journals. Through a poetic montage of found footage they explore the fears and worries, frustrations and desires of solitary people in front of their webcam, amidst a never-ending stream of micro-confessions and intimate exposures.

Parental Guidance: Because We Are Visual

Midlife melancholia enacted by 10 year olds? Using a wealth of student documentary videos and Super-8 films from the era, this documentary tells the story of an ambitious staging on Broadway of Uncle Vanya by primary school kids from New York in 1979. The motto is : Childhood lasts all through life.

Parental Guidance: Chekhov for Kids

David Blair resurrects and remixes a wonderful range of early Asian films and evokes the mythic Movietalkers. Musician Fabienne Stadelmann generates a live soundtrack on the cello. The performance is followed by Blair’s classic (the first ever webmovie) Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees.

Parental Guidance: David Blair - The Living Telepathy of the Manchurian Movietalkers

Abnorminal Fitness Club Party: get ready to join this crazy night and boost your festival with a healthy dose of fitness, discipline, projector powerlifting, filmquizing and good live music. Leave your competitors behind and win some free filmtickets! Organised by WORM: Avantgarde Recreation &amp; Welness.

Parental Guidance: From XL to XS Party (from fatness2fitness)

On 12 February, the first major solo exhibition by Gabriel Lester opens in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. The whimsy of fate and the need for ritual actions are his central themes. As a prelude, Lester introduces one of his favourite themes: the lottery. He is accompanied by a one-man band.

Parental Guidance: Gabriel Lester Prelude Show

We know that Africa does not have it easy and a lot of sad films are made about Africa. However, African filmmakers themselves prefer to make cheerful, colourful and humourous films. About their Africa, which can also be cheerful, colourful and funny. And when African filmmakers go to China, that’s really worth a laugh.

Parental Guidance: Hun Afrika

The Ukrainian Kovalyov is an internationally honoured animation filmmaker and one of the leading lights at Klasky Csupo, the studio behind the Simpsons and Rugrats. His silent films are enigmatic and laden with the same psychological intensity as those of David Lynch. A complete universe in five short films.

Parental Guidance: Igor Kovalyov - Animating Flashbacks

Collage artist Klahr introduces Prolix Satori, a variable short film juke box for which he recycles comics, magazines and music. His style is saturated in mid-century Americana, easy listening and iconic pop music. This version includes the European premieres of April Snow and A Thousand July’s.

Parental Guidance: Lewis Klahr - Prolix Satori

The duo Low-Tech.NL conjures up overpowering images with the simplest of means: water, oil, soap, cut-out puppets and even living brine shrimps.

Parental Guidance: Low-Tech.NL

The Audible Picture Show is a project by British filmmaker Matt Hulse. A selection from this has been brought together on two LPs and is presented this evening. An old and obscure film script about Leni Riefenstahl and Béla Balázs will also be resurected (with The Player).

Parental Guidance: Matt Hulse & Friends

Is it possible to reach the moon in one breath? Yes, if you are postman Rain. He makes a philosophical journey through time and eras: the visual version of his thoughts and imagination while fulfilling his daily task. This is Estonian animation as its surrealist best, full of visual experimentation.

Parental Guidance: Matti Kutt - Sky Song

Early silent (nitrate) films were often borrowing their subjects and style from the fairground, the circus, vaudeville. With an improvised soundtrack, we pay hommage to this era of the so-called ‘Cinema of Attractions’. Expect weird slapstick, bizarre athletics, primitive animation and explosive performances.

Parental Guidance: Nitrate Explosion VJ Night

Oorbeek is an 'artists’ band' that makes improvised music using overtone singing, Jew's harp, wind tambourine, baby piano and plenty more. Serge Onnen is an artist who works with shadow as well as a form of animation: you fold your hands in a unique way and a dog appears on the wall.

Parental Guidance: Serge Onnen - Ombromanie

On the opening evening of the IFFR, we also start the audiovisual experiment for our future audience. The programme includes a sneak preview of the whole Not Kidding programme, several surprises and above all lots of live experiments with images and sound. Feel free to bring your own MP3-player.

Pillow Fight Party

Dear Steve is a lyrical portrait of the laptop, the pedestrian icon of 'the new spirit of capitalism'. We can witness the ruthless, smooth dismantling of a brand-new MacBook Pro, and the act of literally turning inside-out the digital work station that controls our daily lives. Don’t try this at home?

TV Dinners: Herman Asselberghs

Disney created with Bambi one of the very first virtual worlds. This romantic wilderness, devoid of its inhabitants, was reconstructed by Broersen and Lukács in Mastering Bambi. Pierre Bismuth allows each character to speak their own language in his Babylonian version of the Disney classic Jungle Book.

TV Dinners: Jungle Look

Three short films in which the living environment of the child opens and blossoms. Joachim Lafosse observes a child in the crèche. Moira Tierney let Irish schoolchildren film themselves. And above all: the world premiere of a slapstick film that Abner Preis shot on the spot in Not Kidding. All power to the imagination!

TV Dinners: Leaving the Nest

In 2008 a nine-year-old named 'RANDYPETERS1' submitted on YouTube a handdrawn animation about Octocat, a cat head with eight long legs looking for his parents. The ultra crude character became an instant hit. We celebrate David O’Reilly, the mastermind behind Octocat, with some extra strange cat and mouse fun.

TV Dinners: Octocat & Co

With a minimalist aesthetic and child-like colours, the agent provocateur of animation Mulloy produces a bizarre sexual melodrama in silhouette style. Sharp, intense dialogue is rendered entirely computerized, producing a curiously lively experience of characters that are at once disturbing and hilarious.

TV Dinners: Phil Mulloy Goodbye Mister Christie

An invitation to get lost in the woods with the multi-talented legendary stop-motion animators. From a dark and surreal variation on Alice in Wonderland, to a recent parfum commercial, with Songs for Dead Children and fragments of the Toon Tellegen-inspired opera Cricket Recovers in between.

TV Dinners: Quay Brothers

For those who even get bored by the well-known one-minute movies: a programme of short films lasting from 42 to scarcely 10 seconds. Kenneth Anger, Jonas Mekas, David Lynch, Larry Clark, Harmony Korine, Lou Ye, Gaspar Noé, Asia Argento, Leos Carax, Mike Figgis, Abel Ferrara: world class entertainment for the ADHD generation!

TV Dinners: Quick, Quick Slow

Duke and Battersby perform various roles in their own videoworks. Their funny fables propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. They employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world-view.

TV Dinners: The Young Duke & Battersby

The Russians do not only compete with the Americans in cowboy films (see the Red Westerns programme), but there was of course also the space race. From obscure archives, we have the bizarre, pseudoscientific animations of a forgotten pioneer who systematically challenged the laws of physics.

TV Dinners: Valentin Kobrin

Every day, a new selection of short films, animated slides, websites, art projects, photo reports and other audiovisual material, all seriously fun. These visual stimuli are related to the various daily activities of Not Kidding.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025