Through the Avant-Garde Lens | Seeing the world for the first time

The focus of our final lecture is on experimental filmmaking. How do these filmmakers see the world? What do they point their camera at, what intrigues them in what they observe? And why do they have a preference for the materiality of celluloid? We are delighted to be joined by filmmaker Jaap Pieters, and the artist-filmmakers Lucy Cordes Engelman and Annemarie Wadlow.

Jaap Pieters, known as the “eye of Amsterdam”, began shooting films in Super8 in 1985. Much of his work concentrates on urban subjects – trams, crossroads, city dwellers and drifters – to which he directs his voyeuristic gaze to capture their everyday existence. Many of his films consist of only one reel of film lasting three minutes and twenty seconds.

Lucy Cordes Engelman and Annemarie Wadlow both use 8mm film to engage with the sensorial imagination. They are both driven by feminist methodologies and alternative knowledges in their moving image and writing practices, and have recently collaborated together for the first time. Lucy and Annemarie are graduates from MA Artistic Research at KABK.

We will screen:

Followed by:

Discussion on 8mm filmmaking

Jaap, Lucy and Annemarie will discuss their mutual love of Super8, finding connections in how they use filmmaking as a way to look at, watch and see the beauty of the everyday.

We look forward to seeing you there!