IFFR 2012

eteam

Experience the paranoia in the Kop van Zuid area. As soon as you get in the car, you enter a live film which the American eteam created ten seconds before. Using a tablet, all sorts of things seem to happen during the ride, whilst no one else notices. Limited places.

Signals: For Real

100 Meters Behind the Future

Pilvi Takala

Several monitors appear in semi-public spaces around the festival centre. Takala invites us to follow her game of trespassing and challenging social situations. In all of her videos and performances she enjoys causing confusion with her subversive role-play.

Among Others

Vincent Morisset

In Vincent Morisset’s playfully animated BLA BLA, the spectator plays the lead. This 'film for computer' is an interactive tale that explores the fundamental principles of human communication. The viewer makes the story possible: without him or her, there is no film.Free entrance, continuous screening in the Rotterdamse Schouwburg.

BLA BLA

Canadian production designer Carol Spier talks to Professor Timo de Rijk about her work as a set designer, about design in cinema and real life, and about the link between experienced reality and design. Spier is known for her innovative set design for director David Cronenberg.

Designed Realities: Production Designer Carol Spier

Germaine Kruip

Unique, one-off performance of a soundtrack specially composed not for a film, but for the view of the sunset from the Cruise Terminal. Artist Germaine Kruip directs reality for you, the Muziekinstituut MultiMedia composed the music which will be performed by the Metropole Orkest

Eye Trap

Michel Gondry

Can you shoot your own film in three hours without relevant education or experience? Yes you can! Master Michel Gondry’s film factory will host groups of DIY filmmakers both during and after the film festival.

Home Movie Factory

A further exploration of For Real by an adventurous gathering of artists, historians and progammers who share an interest in expanding the notion of cinema to other practices, such as soundwalks, scripted public spaces and installation art. With special live radio interventions.

Imagined Cinemas

Aram Bartholl

Forget virtual reality. You won’t believe your eyes when you suddenly see the unmistakable thumbnail of Google Maps as a huge traffic sign in the heart of the city. Map is set up at the exact spot that Google Maps assumes to be the centre of the film festival.

Sander Veenhof

André Freyssen

Use your smartphone as a prompter, seek out your counterpart and play a role in the mobile film set around the Schouwburgplein. A project by Andre Freyssen, Madeleen Bloemendaal and Sander Veenhof.

Meet Your Stranger

Circumstance

Flash mobs have become a familiar phenomenon. But did you know that there is a variety called the 'subtlemob', aimed at remaining unseen? Armed with only an mp3 player, this subtlemob takes you on a cinematic experience of twists and turns.

Our Broken Voice

Wouter Huis

Participate in a strange, quiet performance in which an empty space will be turned into a theatre. Wouter Huis transforms every passerby into a fictive character with a simple intervention: by placing a confusing sign or using the magic gateway of a garage door.

Performance #1 & Disclaimer

Reality Check (Schouwburgplein 54) is the meeting point and point of departure for most of the For Real projects. It provides extensive information on the latter and a number of special interviews, lectures and films will be laid on there. The space was designed by Glamcult Studio and features alienating audio-design by Daniel Sillem and Enio Ramalho from Rotterdam.

Reality Check

Sascha Pohle

Dialogues from more than 50 different films about artists (Pollock, Surviving Picasso etc.) are reenacted by crafstmen in the Dafen Oil Painting Village, where Western art is reproduced on a massive scale. Are they really tormented by the same artistic doubts?

Reframing the Artist

Francisco López

A set of surreal virtual sonic micro-worlds created from original environmental sound recordings gathered round the Kop van Zuid - Erasmus Bridge area of Rotterdam.

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Francisco López

Jeroen Stout

A re-enactment of the Internet tumult that led popular Korean actress Choi Jin-sil to commit suicide. A sonic walk which allows you to experience how social media influence our methods of communication.

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Jeroen Stout

Katarina Zdjelar

Maziar Afrassiabi

A soundwalk about how listening and sound can mediate the body's movement and behaviour in an architecturally defined environment.

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Katarina Zdjelar & Maziar Afrassiabi

Lee Patterson

The sound walk by Lee Patterson uses real big-city sound. Patterson engenders significance in his surroundings by using both the naked ear and amplified hearing.

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: Lee Patterson

A seminar on the metamorphosis of the city under the influence of sound. Filmmakers, musicians, sound artists, scientists and film lovers engage in a dialogue about their experiences with the imaginative power of soundwalking.With Justin Bennett, Kees Hin, Raviv Ganchrow, Marcel Cobussen, Jacqueline Oskamp and others.

Soundtrackcity Rotterdam: The City As Sound

Simon Pummell

Total paranoia is the keyword in this media installation. Armed with 3D-glasses the visitor will drown in the schizophrenic mind of Schreber, one of Freud’s most famous patients. He is also the main character in Pummell’s feature film Shock Head Soul.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025