Off Screen

Off Screen Wednesday January 22th 20.15 h!
A week before IFFR 2025 kicks off, director Vanja Kaludjercic along with financial director Clare Stewart present especially for Off Screen, a personal prelude to the upcoming festival.
We also show the last dance film Hunt Down by René Hazekamp (1962-2024), Bea de Visser‘s latest short film No Horses on Mars and there is a live performance by Gerwin Luijendijk with visuals by Mirjam Somers.

Vanja Kaludjercic & Clare Stewart prelude to IFFR 2025
Clare Stewart (Australia) was among other things festival director of the Sydney Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival, interim CEO at Sheffield DocFest, and worked (also for IFFR) as a strategic, creative and development consultant.
Vanja Kaludjercic (Croatia) held key positions at MUBI, CPH:DOX, among others, and shaped IFFR’s Talks & Masterclasses. About IFFR, she says, “IFFR is considered a springboard for young and emerging directors worldwide. It knows how to connect audiences and the film industry and is known for supporting makers in various ways".

Hunt Down
by René Hazekamp (1962 – 2024)
1994, Netherlands, 10 min., 35mm film
René Hazekamp’s work includes short films, feature films, documentaries and series. He did not shy away from experimentation and showed social commitment in both the productions he directed and the films he edited under the direction of others. He started with short independent experimental dance films in 1986, after which he turned to making documentaries, first for VPRO’s Lola da Musica, then independent feature-length documentaries such as De Onplaatsbaren and Gangway to a Future. Hunt Down is his latest dance film. Near the deserted docks, a youth hastily climbs over a fence at night. A search-light ‘captures’ him and he is soon chased by a burly man. Cinematographer Benito Strangio and composer Arthur Sauer will talk about his oeuvre.

No horses on Mars
by Bea de Visser
2024, Netherlands, 15 min.
No horses on Mars is the second part of a trilogy in which the ‘animal gaze’ is assessed as seriously as the ‘human gaze’. In the film Bea de Visser undertakes a scientific study of the horse, applying CT brain scans, filming the animal via motion capture or thermal imaging, observing it underwater or in glossy muscular flight as it vaults over a kitchen table in a mock-up studio. The film also shows a poetic analysis to determine what the beast may be experiencing in a world primarily shaped and designed by humans.

Silent Sirens
by Gerwin Luijendijk & Mirjam Somers
2025, live performance & screening
Silent Sirens is a project by Mirjam Somers in which she reflects upon the complex and flawed relationship between human and other nonhuman animals in an anthropocntric world. Three hundred drawings, are the starting point. The search for the stories behind these drawings has resulted in an installation that continuously develops and which forms the prelude to the film project Silent Sirens. Within the project, Somers works together with musician, artist and playwright Gerwin Luijendijk. In Off Screen a glimpse of the upcoming event in UBIK.

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