The International Film Festival Rotterdam likes to look outside the confines of the projection screen. In the Signals programme For Real it is not the cinema screen, but everyday reality that constitutes the canvas for unforgettable performances.
Nowadays, our consciousness is infused with moving images and film, to the extent that we start to experience reality as a film. With the rise of smartphones and wireless technique, the interaction between the virtual and physical space has become more intense. This has led to several new art forms with cinematic origins, such as the adding of an extra audio-visual layer on existing locations, scripting of real situations, or manipulating known situations with light and sound, animating the ‘City experience’ using a soundtrack: in all these examples new technologies contribute to the mash-up of film and reality.
During this edition of the festival, the boundaries between the professional filmmaker and the film lover, the film studio and the exhibition space, the script and spontaneous improvisation will blur further and further. Reality as a whole becomes a projection screen for new art forms. And the festival visitor transforms into an extra, actor or even a genuine filmmaker.
For Real is curated by Rutger Wolfson, Edwin Carels and Inge de Leeuw.
You can buy tickets for several For Real events online. Please click through the events to order tickets or learn more about the programme.
100 Meters Behind the Future is a live film that is being shot, acted, directed, edited, screened, watched and deleted in real time on the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam.
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Join Pilvi Takala's social game and subversive actions in public place.
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An interactive webproject that has expanded to a friskily and animated environment, in which the biggest part is stored for you, the audience!
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Production designer Carol Spier (Canada) talks to Professor Timo de Rijk about her work as set designer, about design in film and in real life, as well as about the link between perceived ‘reality’ and design.
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The Metropole Orchestra will performe Eye Trap on 3 Feburary, in cooperation with the Muziekinstituut Multimedia and artist Germaine Kruip.
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With this installation participants can make an entire film in three hours. Experience or talent are not required, enthusiam is!
Have you got no time or desire to participate in one of the workshops? Take a look in the Video Library.
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Aram Bartholl makes Google Maps virtual display real.
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Search your adversary with your smart phone as a prompter and play your part in the mobile film that plays around IFFR’s festival centre.
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Flashmobs are a well known phenomenon by now. But do you now the variety to this, the so-called subtlemob, which focuses on staying invisible?
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Public space as theatre and an inoffensive passer-by as fictional character in Performance #1 and Disclaimer.
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Dialogues from more than 50 different movies about artists (Pollock, Surviving Picasso etc.) are reenacted by craftsmen in the Dafen Oil Painting Village.
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The seminar The City as Sound focuses on the question "How does reality change into a cinematic experience when we walk through a city influenced by a soundtrack made for the location?”.
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What happens when, instead of going to the cinema, you go out onto the streets to be a projectionist as well as spectator of your own film? The four soundwalks of Soundtrackcity Rotterdam will change the reality into great cinematographic experiences.
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For Real gets another dimension thanks to an adventurous mix of artists, historian and programmers who all extend the concept of film.
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Armed with 3D glasses you will be immersed in the schizophrenic mind of Schreber, one of Freuds most famous patients.
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