Move around music

 

 

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While musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, promotional music videos started becoming popular into the 1960s and the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Music videos use a wide range of styles and contemporary video-making techniques, including animation, live-action, documentary, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film. Combining these styles and techniques has become more popular due to the variety for the audience. Many music videos interpret images and scenes from the song's lyrics, while others take a more thematic approach.

For Ever Fun

 

 

 Many theories exist about what humour is and what social function it serves. The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy. The benign-violation theory,attempts to explain humour's existence. The theory says "humour only occurs when something seems wrong, unsettling, or threatening, but simultaneously seems okay, acceptable or safe." Humour can be used as a method to easily engage in social interaction by taking away that awkward, uncomfortable, or uneasy feeling of social interactions.

Filmmuseum Turin

 

 

 Unique in Italy and one of the most important in the world, the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CINEMA is housed inside the Mole Antonelliana, symbol of the city of Turin. 

Inaugurated in July 2000, it has become one of the most visited museums in Italy, gaining wide international acclaim; a remarkable achievement for a very special museum that aims to fascinate visitors by involving them in the enchanting world of the Seventh Art.

Picasso Art

 

 

 In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving picture. The term is derived from the historical development of film stock, in which the sequentially recorded single images look like a framed picture when examined individually. The term may also be used more generally as a noun or verb to refer to the edges of the image as seen in a camera viewfinder or projected on a screen. Thus, the camera operator can be said to keep a car in frame by panning with it as it speeds past

Back to the future (music)

 

 

 A soundtrack is the music of a movie, TV series or computer game. In the case of film music, the music album is often released in the same period as the film in question premieres. Sometimes such a soundtrack also contains one or two songs that become a hit and make extra advertising for the movie or game. Originally, the soundtrack was the sound track of a movie, with the dialogues, the background sounds, the sound effects and the film music.

Pigeon search

 

 

 What has now become a feature film began five years ago as an idea during the coronavirus pandemic. Lisanne was only ten years old when she started writing. "Each time, a better version of the script emerged," she says. "I really started working on it seriously when I was thirteen." "The ending of the film is truly moving." "Duivinder" tells the story of two children who want to help their lonely grandfather after the loss of his grandmother. They try to find a new love for him through pigeon racing. The idea arose when Lisanne saw elderly people feeling lonely during the pandemic. "I saw many elderly people who feel lonely," she says. "They attach great value to their pets, just like I do." Lisanne herself is crazy about racing pigeons. Her own pigeon, Dik, even plays a small role.

filming with miniatures

 

 The use of scale models in the creation of visual effects by the entertainment industry dates back to the earliest days of cinema. Models and miniatures are copies of people, animals, buildings, settings, and objects. Miniatures or models are used to represent things that do not really exist, or that are too expensive or difficult to film in reality, such as explosions, floods, or fires.

Dreamtime

 

 

 The human dream experience and what to make of it has undergone sizable shifts over the course of history. Long ago, according to writings from Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt, dreams dictated post-dream behaviors to an extent that was sharply reduced in later millennia.These ancient writings about dreams highlight visitation dreams, where a dream figure, usually a deity or a prominent forebear, commands the dreamer to take specific actions, and which may predict future events

Most beautiful shots in film

 

 

 Cinema, as an artistic language defined by a distortion of perception and fabrication of reality, was a natural attraction for the avant-garde art of the 20th century. Inspired by early Dada experimental films and the feverish works of German Expressionism, film allowed the surrealists to create pure, tangible dreams. Though there aren’t that many de facto surrealist films, surrealism was formative to cinema history when the medium was still quite young. Denying logic, narrative, and even meaning, surrealist cinema opened pathways as to what a movie could be and pushed the audiovisual language to its farther boundaries. We’re going to look at a few of these bold surrealist films, as well as some movies that were influenced by surrealism over the last one hundred years.

Life at the castle

 

 

 Live-action is a film and video technique that uses real people, animals or objects instead of animation or drawn images. These images are filmed in real locations and show realistic actions. The term is often used in contrast to animation, as in Disney's live-action remakes.

A.I. filmillutions

 

 

 An illusion is an apparent reality or a misinterpretation of reality. The image that a person has of reality is based on his perceptions through the senses and processing of these signals in the brain. Illusions are therefore based on erroneous perceptions of real external stimuli, as opposed to hallucinations. Illusions cannot exist without sensory perception, they are a wrong interpretation of them. Dreams and hallucinations are perceptions without an external stimulus underlying them. They are only apparently coming from a sense. Drugs can also cause hallucinations. A dream is actually a kind of processing of visual images by the brain

Carnivalolympics

 

 

 A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film for still images or film stock for filmmaking. In the case of motion picture film, the format sometimes includes audio parameters. Other characteristics usually include the film gauge, pulldown method, lens anamorphosis (or lack thereof), and film gate or projector aperture dimensions, all of which need to be defined for photography as well as projection, as they may differ.

Dutch countryside 2

 

 

 Western films derive from the Wild West shows that began in the 1870s.: 48  Originally referred to as "Wild West dramas", the shortened term "Western" came to describe the genre. Although other Western films were made earlier, The Great Train Robbery (1903) is often considered to mark the beginning of the genre. Westerns were a major genre during the silent era (1894–1929) and continued to grow in popularity during the sound era (post–1929).

Woodwork industrial

 

 

 Actuality film is a non-fiction film genre that uses footage of real events, places, and things (essentially B-roll), a predecessor to documentary film. Unlike documentaries, actuality films are not structured into a larger narrative or coherent whole. During the era of early cinema, actualities—usually lasting no more than a minute or two and usually assembled together into a program by an exhibitor—were just as popular and prominent as their fictional counterparts

Caceras in Spain

 

 

 The different Spanish governments have implemented measures aimed at supporting local film production and the movie theaters, which currently include the assurance of funding from the main television broadcasters. Nowadays, the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) is the State agency in charge of regulating the allocation of public funds to the domestic film industry.

Vacations Abroad

 

 

 Much comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations, but there are many recognized genres of comedy. Satire and political satire use ironic comedy used to portray persons or social institutions as ridiculous or corrupt, thus alienating their audience from the object of humor

Attack by the wolves

 

Wolves have become increasingly common in the Netherlands since 2015, and since 2019 the country has once again been home to a pack of wolves with young – the first in around 150 years. The government intends to review the current Interprovincial Wolf Plan, a process that will start in 2021.  The return of wolves to the Netherlands

 

Wild mussels

 

 A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures. Nature documentaries usually concentrate on video taken in the subject's natural habitat, but often including footage of trained and captive animals, too. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema.

UK riviera

 

 

 Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", briefly lasted for one minute or less in most cases. While faithfully depicting true events, these releases possessed no narrative structure per se and were of limited interest. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length and to include more categories of information. Some examples are explicitly educational, while others serve as observational works; docufiction movies notably include aspects of dramatic storytelling that are clearly fictional. Documentaries are informative at times, and certain types are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles.

Crime in Photography

 

 

 Before the emergence of digital photography, photographs that utilized film had to be developed to produce negatives or projectable slides, and negatives had to be printed as positive images, usually in enlarged form. This was typically done by photographic laboratories, but many amateur photographers, students, and photographic artists did their own processing.

Dutch filmmaking

 

Post-production, also known simply as post, is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, audio production, and photography. Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording individual program segments. Contrary to the name, however, post-production may occur at any point during the recording and production process.

The traditional first part of the post-production process, non-linear (analog) film editing, has mostly been replaced by digital or video editing software, which operates as a non-linear editing (NLE) system. The advantage of non-linear editing is the ability to edit scenes out of order, thereby making creative changes at will. This flexibility facilitates carefully shaping the film in a thoughtful, meaningful way for emotional effect.

Leksand: sailing

 

 

 Sweden has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 64 times since making its debut in 1958, missing only three contests since then (1964, 1970, and 1976). The current Swedish participating broadcaster in the contest is Sveriges Television (SVT), which select its entrant through the national competition Melodifestivalen. Sweden has hosted the contest seven times: three times in Stockholm (1975, 2000, 2016), three times in Malmö (1992, 2013, 2024) and one time in Gothenburg (1985). At the 1997 contest, Sweden was one of the first five countries to adopt televoting

 

Fruit Import

 

 

 A television film (or made-for-television film) is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a terrestrial or cable television network. It is in contrast to theatrical films first shown in movie theaters, direct-to-video films released only in home video formats, and films released on or produced for streaming platforms. In certain cases, a television film may also be shown, and referred to, as a miniseries, which typically indicates that it has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes.

Trump-E.T.

 

Mega-Lo-Mania is an early real-time strategy game . The player takes control of one of four gods: Scarlet (red), Caesar (green), Oberon (yellow) and Madcap (blue). There are no differences between them except colour and AI behaviour when opposing. Each level takes place on an island divided into two to sixteen "sectors". The objective is to defeat up to three opposing gods and conquer the island.

Smalhold farmers

 

 

 Amateur film is a genre of filmmaking done primarily for personal enjoyment, passion, or hobby, without commercial intent or substantial funding. It encompasses a wide range of activities, from recording family events and local news to creating experimental works or dramatic productions. It later overlapped with fan film, a filmmaking genre used for amateur films created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators.

Golden Globes

 

 

 One Battle After Another winner of the Golden Globes In Los Angeles, the Golden Globes were awarded, after the Oscars the most important film awards. The big winner of the night was One Battle After Another. The film, in which immigrant detention plays a central role, won the award for Best Film in the musical or comedy category and is considered one of the biggest Oscar favorites of this year. One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, won several times. Teyana Taylor won the award for Best St. Paul Thomas Anderson won the Best Director award for the same film and also won One Battle After Another awards in the Best Screenplay category. The film was nominated the most often with nine.

Fotomuseum Rotterdam

 

 

 Color isn’t just something we see — it’s something we feel. Each frame in this carousel explores a different way color shapes emotion: the soft pastels of a glowing sky, the saturated detail in living textures, and the deep reflective tones that turn ordinary moments into abstract art. Whether it’s nature, water, or the quiet details most people walk past, every image here taps into how color can tell a story without a single word.

Pleasure events: Eindhoven

 

Comics is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. Originally used to illustrate caricatures and to entertain through the use of amusing and trivial stories, it has by now evolved into a literary medium with many subgenres.

Camera's: all over

 

 

 The deployment of this technology has facilitated significant growth in state surveillance, a substantial rise in the methods of advanced social monitoring and control, and a host of crime prevention measures throughout the world. Though surveillance of the public using CCTV cameras is common in many areas around the world, video surveillance has generated significant debate about balancing its use with individuals' right to privacy even when in public

Ardennes visit

 

 

 The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors. Though the expense involved in making film almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing production companies, advances in affordable filmmaking equipment, as well as an expansion of opportunities to acquire investment capital from outside the film industry itself, have allowed independent film production to evolve.

Transport: Wild Motion

 

 

Filmmaking and release has become considerably easier in recent years. That's perhaps the most obvious reason. From the late 1990s onward, more and more films were shot digitally instead of on celluloid, and shortly thereafter, cinemas also switched to digital projection. This made everything much cheaper and less labor-intensive. And thanks to social media, marketing, for example, is also much cheaper. Moreover, films now have shorter runs because they quickly go to streamers. This also frees up space in cinemas.

Cinema concert

 

 

 Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music depending on the nature of the films they accompany. While the majority of scores are orchestral works rooted in Western classical music, many scores are also influenced by jazz, rock, pop, blues, new-age and ambient music, and a wide range of ethnic and world music styles. Since the 1950s, a growing number of scores have also included electronic elements, and many scores written today feature a hybrid of orchestral and electronic instruments. Since the invention of digital technology and audio sampling, many modern films have been able to rely on digital samples to imitate the sound of acoustic instruments, and some scores are created and performed wholly by the composers themselves, by using music composition software, synthesizers, samplers, and MIDI controllers.

Werner Herzog: pictures

 

 

 Werner Herzog (German: born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His style involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film on which they are working.

AI scenery

Many AI applications are not perceived as AI: "A lot of cutting edge AI has filtered into general applications, often without being called AI because once something becomes useful enough and common enough it's not labeled AI anymore

What's Next?

 

 

 Over the last four years NEXT has developed a portfolio of large-scale exhibitions featuring a new wave of new media artists and extensive public programmes focused on music, movement, performance and education. Nxt has emerged as an aspirational global brand in the art world. 

With a mission to transform our tech-driven world for the better, Nxt seeks, shows and questions how technology impacts humanity through art. In an era of accelerating technological developments humanity is faced with a duality: the promise of its power and the anxiety of its consequences. This is why we established Nxt Museum, the first fine art institution in the Netherlands fully dedicated to art and technology.

Let it snow

 

 

 In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, or sound effects. A sample might comprise only a fragment of sound, or a longer portion of music, such as a drum beat or melody. Samples are often layered, equalized, sped up or slowed down, repitched, looped, or otherwise manipulated. They are usually integrated using electronic music instruments (samplers) or software such as digital audio workstations.

Former Movie effects

 

Cinematography Simply setting up a camera and hitting record doesn’t quite cover the intricate filmmaking technique called cinematography. Cinematography, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is the “art and skill of camerawork in filmmaking.” It’s the skilful capture of moving images, whether on film or digital media. Cinematographers expertly manipulate lighting, camera movements, and lens selections to capture captivating visual storytelling.

Brigitt

 

 

 Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot 28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025), often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist. She became one of the best-known symbols of the sexual revolution and gained international fame for portraying characters associated with hedonistic lifestyles. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remained a major pop culture icon. She appeared in 47 films, performed in several musicals, and recorded more than 60 songs. She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985.

Amsterdam year:1600

 

 

 Historical drama film stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds, such as Braveheart, which is loosely based on the 13th-century knight William Wallace's fight for Scotland's independence.

Hans Zimmer in London

 

 

  Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the United Kingdom before moving to the United States. He is the head of the film music division at DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation studios and works with other composers through the company that he founded, Remote Control Productions, formerly known as Media Ventures. His studio in Santa Monica, California, has an extensive range of computer equipment and keyboards, allowing demo versions of film scores to be created quickly

Happy 2026

 

 

Greetings from Benidorm

Guerrilla filmmaking refers to a form of independent filmmaking characterized by ultra-low micro budgets, skeleton crews, and limited props using whatever resources, locations and equipment is available. The genre is named in reference to guerrilla warfare due to these techniques typically being used to shoot quickly in real locations without obtaining filming permits or providing any other sort of warning.

Independent filmmakers typically resort to guerrilla filmmaking because they do not have the budget or time to obtain permits, rent out locations, or build expensive sets. Larger and more "mainstream" film studios tend to avoid guerrilla filmmaking tactics because of the risk of being sued, fined or having their reputation damaged due to negative publicity.

Lake Annecy

 

 

 Those seeking to learn the technical craft of filmmaking in the early days of cinema were largely self-taught engineers or still photographers who experimented with new film technology. With the rise of commercial filmmaking in the 1920s, most notably the Hollywood studio system, those seeking to learn the technical skills of filmmaking most often started at the bottom of a hierarchical system and apprenticed under a more experienced person to learn the trade.

Hans Zimmer: Hollywood rebel

 

 

A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, and frequency modulation synthesis. These sounds may be altered by components such as filters, which cut or boost frequencies; envelopes, which control articulation, or how notes begin and end; and low-frequency oscillators, which modulate parameters such as pitch, volume, or filter characteristics affecting timbre. Synthesizers are typically played with keyboards or controlled by sequencers, software or other instruments, and can be synchronized to other equipment via MIDI.

 

Fassbinder filmer

 

 

 Holger Bernhard Bruno Mischwitzky (born Holger Radtke; known professionally as Rosa von Praunheim, was a German film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most influential and famous queer activists in the German-speaking world. 

  Fassbinder and I knew each other from the beginning of our careers. I never liked him. No doubt there’s a good measure of competitiveness on my part behind this dislike. That which one is most like is what one ends up being most critical of. We’re both gay, independent filmmakers who worked a great deal with amateurs.

Visual Poems

 

 

 Visual poetry is a style of poetry that incorporates graphic and visual design elements to convey its meaning. This style combines visual art and written expression to create new ways of presenting and interpreting poetry. Visual poetry focuses on playing with form, which means it often takes on various art styles. These styles can range from altering the structure of the words on the page to adding other kinds of media to change the poem itself. Some forms of visual poetry may retain their narrative structure, but this is not a requirement of visual poetry. Some visual poets create more abstract works that steer away from linguistic meaning and instead focus heavily on the composition of words and letters to create a visually pleasing piece.

Mans' world

 

 

 Match cut A type of cut from one shot to another where the composition of each shot is matched to the other by the action or subject matter depicted; e.g. in a scene depicting a duel, a long shot showing both of the duellists might cut to a close-up shot of one of the duellists in the midst of the action. Match cuts are precisely timed and coordinated so as to produce a seamless transition that is consistent with the logic of the action.

Rob Reiner RIP

 

Swedish Rollercoaster

 

 

 Cameras have evolved, filmmakers have developed a vast array of camera movements and camera angles to enhance storytelling. Mastering these camera techniques is essential for cinematographers and directors, helping them guide the audience’s perspective and emotions effectively. Camera movement transforms static scenes into dynamic storytelling. This video breaks down key techniques—like push-ins, tracking shots, and whip pans—showing how they shape perspective and build tension. Watch to see how intentional movement elevates every shot:

Birth of Eindhoven

 

 

Filmclub Lumière Eindhoven is no longer active as an independent club, but its collection of films, often with Eindhoven-related themes, has been acquired and managed by Eindhoven in Beeld, a platform where you can watch these historical films online. Although Lumière itself has ceased operations, you can still find their heritage (and other) through Eindhoven-related themes, and the Eindhoven arthouse cinema Natlab (formerly Plaza/De Effenaar) is an important venue for film in the city.