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.

IFFR 2024

Tega Brain

Julian Oliver

Bengt Sjölén

An AI environmental manager playfully prompts a reevaluation of our tech-centric approach to global challenges.

Blending cutting-edge technology with environmental exploration, Asunder, a three-channel video projection, responds to the surge of artificial intelligence as a potential universal problem-solving tool. Curated with V2_.

Thematic & Retrospectives

Art Directions: installations

Asunder

Phumulani Ntuli

Animation re-animates history by juxtaposing digitised archival images and contemporary reflections on South African image-making.

Delve into themes of identity, migration and the human condition through the works of Phumulani Ntuli. Through a unique digital collage style, Cloud Migration presents animated reflections on history and a contemporary lens through which to look upon South African image-making.

Cloud Migration

Rosa Barba

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen invites  Rosa Barba to delve into the film and video collection.

Embark on a sensory journey with Rosa Barba’s latest project. An immersive exploration through film, installations and performances, transforming Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen into a cinematic space, marrying memories with artistic expressions.

Drawing Probable Conclusions / VOICE ENGINE and Hear, There Where the Echoes Are

Rachel Maclean

Experience Rachel Maclean's newest work, DUCK, in the installation context she is best known for.

Experience Rachel Maclean's newest work, DUCK, in the installation context she is best known for.

DUCK (installation)

Lolo & Sosaku

Lolo &amp; Sosaku's kinetic spectacle blurs the lines between noise performance and musical sculpture.

Artist duo Lolo and Sosaku create a strange and inexplicable world through mesmerising sound sculptures and contraptions. Their live performance The End, serves as the climax to Sergio Caballero's film, 'Lolo &amp; Sosaku' The Western Archive. A surreal Western odyssey awaits.

The End

A stop-motion odyssey merging animation and collages, documentary and fiction. Exploring unseen imprints and history.

A stop-motion odyssey, following a character who travels through imaginary geographies. This mixture of animation and collages navigates between documentary and fiction. Meticulously tracing unseen imprints, it provocatively explores the complexities of representation.

Godide

Debra Solomon

Debra Solomon's  1998 work foresees 24/7 online presence and blurring of digital and physical realms.

This pioneering project, created in 1998, foresees 24/7 online presence and the blurring of digital and physical realms. Solomon's digital persona engages audiences, unravelling the collective online landscape's potential. This work will surprise pop-up on various festival screens.

the_living

Anne Fehres

Luke Conroy

Embark on a futuristic yoga session illuminating the delicate dance between humanity and the environment.

Embark on a cinematic odyssey with this installation that plunges you into a futuristic yoga class led by a gold-clad instructor. Transitioning through poses, the session’s initial tranquillity takes an intriguing turn. An emotional and humorous exploration that urges active responses to the climate crisis.

Unfolding

Yuri Yefanov

A post-war city's quest for harmony with nature unfolds as a colourful utopia over three-screens.

In this three-screen installation, a brightly coloured post-war utopia is envisioned in which humanity strives for harmony with nature through a recultivation programme. Yuri Yefanov invites the viewer on a time-travelling journey that transcends culture-nature divides.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025