Screen Tests
Overview of films
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Looking for Alfred
Johan Grimonprez | -
Documentary about the quest by Grimonprez for the perfect Hitchcock look-alike. To be seen in the Nederlands Fotomuseum. -
Not She
Ine Lamers | 40' | Netherlands | World premiere
On a deserted film set, a young woman investigates the boundaries of identification with characters on the silver screen, from Monica Vitti to Gena Ro -
Promises
Anri Sala | Albania | -
Four friends are asked to repeat a few words by Al Capone: ‘Nobody puts a price on my head and lives.’ In the Nederlands Fotomuseum. -
Rebecka
Miriam Bäckström | 42' | Denmark | -
Made as an interview. Spontaneity is deflated with minor slips of the tongue and the emphatic reading of a script. -
Reckless Eyeballing
Christopher Harris | 13' | USA | International premiere
Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era of black criminals staring at white women, this hand-processed, optically-printed amalgam reframes desire by way of everything from… -
Roz
Burt Barr | 6' | USA | International premiere
Working with performer Rosalynde LeBlanc, Burt Barr has created a music video which overturns the rapid-fire schizophrenia of the genre: he limits the frame to… -
Screen Tests (Reel 16)
Andy Warhol | USA | -
By making a ‘screen test’ of all visitors to his Factory, Andy Warhol illustrates his famous vision of fame. In the Nederlands Fotomuseum. -
Solo mit Chor
Karoe Goldt | 6' | Austria | International premiere
A face remains in the picture for a total of six minutes. Only the colors and the mood of the lighting change. Like a photograph… -
Sylvia Kristel – Paris
Manon de Boer | 40' | Belgium | -
When does a recording become a portrait? When we find something unique in it? Or when we recognise it somehow? Ten years ago, Manon de… -
Sylvia, March 1, 2001 Hollywood Hills
Manon de Boer | -
Manon de Boer puts Sylvia Kristel in front of the camera as if she has to do a screentest. In the Nederlands Fotomuseum. -
Taxonomy (Death Stories)
Franko B, Tim Etchells | 12' | United Kingdom | International premiere
People pose before the camera. At the same time an off-screen voice murmurs some ‘vital’ information. The video presents a ‘pick ‘n’ mix’ catalogue of… -
Tomorrow
Fiona Tan | -
Film installation with the faces of Swedish schoolchildren in an uneasy, slow, rotating motion. In the Nederlands Fotomuseum.