Simple accident not a film

 

 

 For 25 years, the Rotterdam Arab Film Festival (RAFF) has been a gateway to Arab cinema in the Netherlands. Founded in 2000, it highlights the diversity and evolution of Arab cinema while building a bridge between Arab culture and The Netherlands. From the very beginning, RAFF set out to break stereotypes and showcase authentic narratives. With a carefully curated selection of fiction, documentaries, and short films, it welcomes both renowned filmmakers and emerging talents each year. Supported by the City of Rotterdam since its inception, the festival has continued to grow and innovate. In 2025, for its 25th edition, RAFF expands with a new cultural exhibition space at the Fenix Museum, offering an even more immersive experience where cinema, art, and gastronomy come together. Now more than ever, RAFF continues to broaden its impact, attracting a curious and passionate audience. A must-attend event for Arab cinema in the heart of Rotterdam.

Pasolini

 

 A controversial personality due to his straightforward style, Pasolini's legacy remains contentious. Openly gay while also a vocal advocate for heritage language revival, cultural conservatism, and Christian values in his youth, Pasolini became an avowed Marxist shortly after the end of World War II. He began voicing extremely harsh criticism of Italian petty bourgeoisie and what he saw as the Americanization, cultural degeneration, and greed-driven consumerism taking over Italian culture

The Hague

 

 

 The Mauritshuis is home to the very best of Dutch Golden Age painting. The compact, yet world-renowned collection, is situated in the heart of The Hague, right next to the government centre. Masterpieces such as Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt, The Goldfinch by Fabritius and The Bull by Potter are on permanent display in the intimate rooms of this seventeenth-century monument.

Salgado

 

Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior (8 February 1944 – 23 May 2025) was a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.[1] He traveled in more than 120 countries for his photographic projects, which appeared in numerous press publications and books. Touring exhibitions of his work have been presented throughout the world.

Decline of Holywood

 

Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a neighborhood and district in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has become synonymous with the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios such as Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures are located in or near Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. The northern and eastern parts of the neighborhood were consolidated with the City of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter, the prominent film industry migrated to the area.

Colonia Suriname

 

For almost forty years the sisters Curiel sisters took pictures of everyday life in Suriname. The photographs show that Augusta Curiel was a compositional and a technically gifted photographer. She always worked with available light and no photometer. Despite these limitations, they proved able to create beautiful images in dim government buildings, churches and factories. Curiel's oeuvre is made up of mostly daily life topics, which were of value to historians and other interested parties. They photographed both in their studio and on plantations and in the interior. The botanist Gerold Stahel took the women on some of his expeditions. Many of the surviving images are group portraits, made by and for (mission) schools, boarding schools and orphanages.

Moving office

 

The BBC Bike Bureau is a mobile broadcasting studio built on an electric cargo bike, designed for sustainable newsgathering and reporting. It was developed by BBC journalists Anna Holligan and Kate Vandy to offer a green alternative to traditional news vans. The bike is equipped with solar panels, internet access, and equipment for live TV and radio broadcasts.

Microbional food

 

"Cultural" Renaissance\ We are in the midst of a culturalin  which the importance of cultivation-focused efforts has been rediscovered, with ex\' results and implications. Several groups have demonstrated that a high percentage of host-associated microbiome members can be cultivated and that such culture collections are in for deducing important aspects of microbiome function . The renewed to culture cells from nonhost environments, such as soil , aquatic environments , and the deep biosphere , is inspired, in part, by these successes and the enormous amounts of  data that have illuminated seemingly limitless microbially diverse populations that we know very little about We can now dissect life blueprints for these uncultivated lineages and use this information to facilitate cultivation.

Soderberg

 

 

 On  Soderbergh prefers sustained close-ups, tracking shots, jump cuts, experimental sequencing and frequently skips establishing shots in favor of audio and alternative visuals. Many of his films are noted for a milieu of suspense through the usage of third-person vantage points and a variety of over-the-shoulder shots. He is known for tracking aesthetic transitions with a variety of colored washes, most notably yellow to symbolize open, socially acceptable situations while blue washes typically symbolize illegal or socially illicit endeavors. In line with these washes, Soderbergh is liberal in his usage of montages as he believes that they are equally important story-telling as dialogue.

Super 8 family footage

Talent – whether behind the camera or in front of it - is at the heart of all great content. , it’s about finding and developing emerging creators with passion and personality and helping to equip them with the skills and experience that help bring their ideas to life. It’s a brilliant time to be a digital creator. The appetite for digital content has never been higher, and the range of platforms and devices now available means there are more opportunities than ever before. Talentworks provides a bridge between a traditional media company of scale like BBC Studios which, together with its independent production labels and partners, delivers thousands of hours of content to broadcasters every year, and a new generation of content creators.

Simply Amsterdam (2)

 

 

 

While the most common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis, other works adapted into films include non-fiction (including journalism), autobiographical works, comic books, scriptures, plays, historical sources and even other films. Adaptation from such diverse resources has been a ubiquitous practice of filmmaking since the earliest days of cinema in nineteenth-century Europe. In contrast to when making a remake, movie directors usually take more creative liberties when creating a film adaptation, changing the context of factors such as audience or genre.

Museum of the tropics

 

 

  During pre-production, the script is broken down into individual scenes with storyboards and all the locations, props, cast members, costumes, special effects, and visual effects are identified. An extremely detailed shooting schedule is produced and arrangements are made for the necessary elements to be available to the film-makers at the appropriate times. Sets are constructed

Posers online

 

Attention seeking behavior is defined as "engaging in behavior designed to attract notice and to make oneself the focus of others' attention and admiration".. People are thought to engage in both positive and negative attention seeking behavior independent of the actual benefit or harm to health. In line with much research and a dynamic self-regulatory processing model of narcissism, motivations for attention seeking are considered to be driven by self-consciousness and thus an externalization of personality rather than internal and self-motivated behavior. Attention seeking is often caused by threats to one's self-concept and the need for social acceptance. This type of influence on behavior can result in a potential loss of a person's sense of agency, personality disorder and the behavior associated with these conditions.

Upright: Amsterdam

 

 

The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era, which existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in larger cities, an orchestra—would play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation.

 

Artis museum

 

 

A museum was a given for the founders of the Zoological Society Natura Artis Magistra. They wanted to do research and in this way transfer knowledge about nature. They started collecting dead animals in 1838 and soon also living animals. The living animals were given their enclosures in the ever-expanding park, while a small building was built for the dead animals. This collection grew and within a few years this forerunner of the Groote Museum proved to be too small. 

Ocean by David Attenborough

 

While Attenborough's earlier work focused primarily on the wonders of the natural world, his later work has been more vocal in support of environmental causes. He has advocated for restoring planetary biodiversity, limiting population growth, switching to renewable energy, mitigating climate change, reducing meat consumption and setting aside more areas for natural preservation. On his broadcasting and passion for nature, NPR stated Attenborough "roamed the globe and shared his discoveries and enthusiasms with his patented semi-whisper way of narrating".

Sinners: the film

 Filmmaker Shanella Bleeke also makes films about subjects that are discussed in Sinners. According to her, the film not only shows violence within systems, but also deeper themes such as cultural appropriation. Sammy is asked to share his talent with the vampires, but then he loses the music. And when the twin brothers are not fighting the vampires, they are fighting the racist Ku Klux Klan. Bleeke was very happy when she saw a full house with a diverse audience during her cinema visit to Sinners. According to her, the film is a break with a major stigma in Hollywood: that films by black makers would attract a smaller target group. "This is a film that everyone wants to see, but it serves the black community.

Interaction: Groote Museum

 

Numerous companies have developed successful POV designs, from laparoscopic video equipment used inside the body during medical procedures, to high tech film and digital cameras mounted to jets and employed during flight, or on helmet based systems used by cinematographers. These designs are expensive, and mostly bespoke or DIY solutions. There are systems made by camera equipment manufacturers, but they require professional filmmaking experience and training.

Eyecathing Groote museum

 

Interactive museum Each zone in the museum represents a part of your body, such as your heart or your vocal cords. That part of your body is the starting point for an associative exploration of yourself and your connection with the world around you. Installations, interactions, stories, films, collection pieces and photos bring each zone to life. Artists and scientists have contributed their expertise. The museum combines multiple specialisms and is interdisciplinary, which allows you to see the bigger picture better. It is therefore an interactive museum, as well as a philosophical museum and a natural history museum.

Village museum: Eindhoven

 

 

Scholarly discourse on the controversy came to focus on concern for the perception of moving image and sound. There are individual and cultural preferences for either method. While approaches and opinions vary, some emphasize sound as paramount, others focus on technology preferences as the deciding factor. Analog fans might embrace limitations as strengths of the medium inherent in the compositional, editing, mixing, and listening phases. Digital advocates boast flexibility in similar processes. This debate fosters a revival of vinyl in the music industry, as well as analog electronics and analog-type plug-ins for recording and mixing software.