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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

BarBara Hanlo

BarBara HANLO (1957, Netherlands) is a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. She makes feature documentaries as well as short experimental films. Since 1993, all her films have had their world premiere at IFFR. She writes and produces her own films with her independent production company PEP (Purple Earth Productions). Besides her work as an artist, Hanlo has lectured at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and worked for several cultural education projects in Amsterdam.

Filmography

Schaduw (1987, short), Jan Hanlo, en die man ben ik zelf (1991, short doc), Dichter bij de zee/Nearer the Sea (1992, short doc, co-dir), Onder de bomen/Under the trees (1994, short doc), Rainbow Stories (1996, omnibus film), Het venster/The View (1997, short), Er stak een wind op/A Wind Rose (1997, short), Circular Objects in Several Movements (1999, short), Om nooit te vergeten (2000, short), Doorgeven aan betreffende/To Whom It May Concern (2003), Slaper/Sleeper (2006, instal), Als een vlieg naar de vlam/As a Fly Drawn to the Flame (2007), Het moeras/The Swamp (2008), Een rechtschapen mens heeft niets te verbergen/An Honest Man Has Nothing to Hide (2009, short doc)

BarBara Hanlo at IFFR

  • Als een vlieg naar de vlam

    Personal and lively film essay as a historic novel. About the lady Alexandrine Tinne from the Hague who set off into the African desert with a fascina

  • Onder de bomen

    A film about looking. For example in Amsterdam’s Vondelpark.

    • main programme

  • Als een vlieg naar de vlam

    Personal and lively film essay as a historic novel. About the lady Alexandrine Tinne from the Hague who set off into the African desert with a fascina

    • Cinema of the World: Time & Tide

  • Een rechtschapen mens heeft niets te verbergen

    A mood impression of what goes on in the evening hours behind the facades of houses on the Amsterdam canals.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Het moeras

    A mysterious and experimental film, yet accessible in a curious way. Just under the fluid visual surface shines a beautiful story (based on A. Alberts

    • Sturm und Drang

  • Doorgeven aan betreffende

    How did a young bird watcher meet his death in the dungeons of the Nazis? The film maker tells the story of her uncle, who went into the resistance as

    • True Stories

  • Dichter bij de zee

    A loving portrait of old-fashioned beach huts by the North Sea. They form the set for a season which is long gone.

    • main programme

  • Circular Objects in Several Movements

    Warm and fragile abstraction. Filmic and musical variations on a round form.

    • main programme short

  • Rainbow Stories

    International experimental episode film based on the book by William T. Volmann. Nine contributions in all the colours of the rainbow.

    • main programme

  • Het venster

    The film-maker is pregnant. Is that normal or very extraordinary, after all.

    • main programme short