Rotterdam Classics: Cinéma Vérité
Combined programme
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IFFR 2012
The life and work of three people who were important to the City of Rotterdam. Portraits as Dutch examples of the international documentary movements Direct Cinema and cinéma vérité, in which the camera itself plays an active role. Compiled by the Rotterdam Municipal Archives and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Introduced by media historian Bas Agterberg.
In this combined programme
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Cornelis Verolme, Scheepsbouwer
Portrait of the everyday life and motives of the self-made man Cornelis Verolme. The film was a breakthrough within the documentary genre by a pioneer -
Het gat van Nederland: De nieuwe Rotterdammer
Report about the poet Vaandrager who lives an introvert existence, after a turbulent period marked by drugs. An exponent of controversial programmes a -
Beeldspraak: Huub Bals en het maken van een festival
Bals – a film fanatic and founder of the IFFR – is followed close up. A striking example of widely praised, cross-disciplinary and high-class cinemato