The Munich Film Society (Münchner Filmwerkstatt e.V.) is looking for young people under age 30 from all over Europe (except Germany) who are interested in coming to Munich for 12 month under the European Voluntary Service. Read more ›

Tuesday, March 18, 15:00 – 17:00 hours at P.C. Hoofthuis, room 1.05
This presentation focuses on the contemporary German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin and his exploration of the condition of exile and longing in films like Head-On. The talk examines Akin’s vision of a globalized Europe, of borderline outsiders seeking spiritual asylum, of journeying souls in transition between identities, languages, and territories. Read more ›

Every Wednesday in February, EYE presents a series on contemporary Moroccan cinema in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and writer Fouad Laroui. The programme, which includes weekly screenings of the work of seven major Moroccan filmmakers, runs from 5 February to 19 March. All directors will be present. Read more ›
You are invited to attend the Fragmentation & Feedback Loops event on 21st of January @ EYE Film Institute.
The project was conceived, curated and created by students from our department in collaboration with students from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. Read more ›
Udine, Italy, 2.-3. April 2014
As part of the bigger investigation undertaken by XXI Udine Conference around the subject of Media Archeology as a pioneering media approach which reconsiders each medium’s identity as part of a network of media discourses, we would like to ask graduates and postgraduates to share their perspective on the relationship between history and digital media culture regarding the concepts of “document,” “archive,” “cartography”. Read more ›
The call for applications for the International M.A. in Film Studies at the University of Amsterdam opens on December 15 and closes on 1 April 2014. Please see below for one-year Master and two-year Research Master programme descriptions, starting in Fall 2014. Read more ›

The EYE Film Institute Netherlands and the Groningen Film Archive are hosting a Symposium on Film & Media Technologies, subtitled “The Film Archive as a Research Laboratory”. The two day symposium takes place on the 12th and 13th of December at the EYE in Amsterdam and the University of Groningen. It features lectures, paper presentations, round table discussions, debates and a special screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma. Read more ›
From November 20th to December 1st Amsterdam will again transform into the global capital of documentary film. The 26th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) brings around 300 films from around the world, offering unique perspectives and extraordinary stories. Read more ›
More information and enrolment via NICA
Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López: “The Audiovisual Essay: A Fusion of Old and New Paths in Creative Film Criticism and Analysis”
Over the past two years, the film critics and magazine editors Cristina Álvarez López (Barcelona) and Adrian Martin (Melbourne) have been collaborating on a series of audiovisual essays, usually combining an edited video with a written (or spoken) text. They will show various examples of their audiovisual work and speak about its underpinning of ideas from film criticism, history and theory. Read more ›

Holographic Windows by Martina Mrongovius
In this lecture artist and designer Dr Martina Mrongovius describes different techniques of holographic imaging and how holograms can make us aware of the nature of light and our own perception.
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