Sitting down with filmmaker, screenwriter, chef, and all-around powerhouse Amira Duynhouwer for a Future Frames interview, film critic Hugo Emmerzael dives into Duynhouwer’s wildly prolific career, her initial love for cinema and the tough lessons she had to learn to make it as a successful film professional.
Ranging from Spielberg to Akira Kurosawa, from industry secrets to cinema inspirations, and from kitchen struggles to biographical cinema, this frank and fun conversation covers a lot of ground. What ties all the disparate topics together is an infectious love for good food, good films and good times.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
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Inspired by the experiences of a close friend, Davy Chou decided to make a film about her non-stereotypical adoption story, the likes of which we hardly ever get to see on screen. Speaking to host Sophie, Chou reflects on directing a film in a country and language that he wasn’t familiar with, and the difficult process he went through as a male writer to create the strong Asian female lead character of his second feature film Return to Seoul.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
Recognizing herself in Stefanie Kolk’s journey towards a career in film that started out in a different place entirely, filmmaker and podcast host Sophie Smeets invited the biophysicists-turned-filmmaker for her Future Frames interview.
In this conversation, we gain an insight into the different elements that play a role in Kolk’s filmmaking. How her love for film started from watching films with her father and how it is still a means of communication and connection for her. She describes how her science background influences the way she approaches her craft and how, after numeral short films, she finally came to make her first feature film, Melk.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111)
For the second interview in our Future Frames series, Head Of Program Tom Ooms and his good friend, Amsterdam-based writer/director Kim Kokosky Deforchaux explore how Kim’s childhood obsession with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park propelled him to pursue a career in genre-filmmaking.
In this hour-long, frank conversation, we get a glimpse of this future framemaker’s trajectory toward becoming a director, after having studied screenwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, how his obsessive movie-watching influenced his own projects, and how his award-winning shorts Ik, Moordenaar and Hantu have made it possible for him to now work towards his first feature film debut.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111)
After watching Ashley Röttjers’ short film Celestial Spaces: A Liberation on Meditation Practices at an IDFA Meets event, Elliot was struck by the elegance and depth of Ashley’s work.
Eager to learn more about this Rotterdam-based photographer turned filmmaker, Elliot invited Ashley as a future framemaker to watch for our Future Frames interviews.
In this candid conversation, Ashley shares how watching a film like Charlie’s Angels as a kid prompted her to pick up the camera and capture her life and that of her friends. From art school to fashion photography, Ashley takes us on a journey marked by her various short films. Inspired to speak in perspectives and frames that are reflective of her own experiences, this intriguing filmmaker on the rise is ready to capture the individuality of black women from joy and beauty to healing and sexuality.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111)
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain, three classics by the controversial Chilean surrealist return to cinemas in the Netherlands nationwide. With Sophie replacing producer Elliot, who will be traveling the world for a while, our hosts Tom, Kiriko, and Hugo discuss the impact of 60s and 70s transgressive cinema, the heritage of the counter-culture, where the provoking works of Jodorowsky fit in, and if the spirit of those times and their cultural expressions live on in our current cinematic culture.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
Following our first live and very animated podcast recording, our hosts, along with our audience, discussed the relevance of cult classic Twilight; a film that showcases a darkly stylish depiction of female desire wrapped inside an inherently silly teen vampire romance. Like it or not this romance saga had us hooked from the beginning and was undoubtedly a cinematic marker in all our lives, one way or another. Find out how Twilight shaped our audience’s proclivity to fall for the wrong men, led to creating their own fan club and even a drinking game… did someone say spider-monkey?
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
Celebrating the 50th-anniversary re-release of his mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain, the three-part retrospective The Alchemy Of Alejandro Jodorowsky presents brand-new, stunning 4K restorations of a trio of the most influential classics by one of world cinema’s most fabled iconoclasts. Often venerated as the ultimate cult film director, father of the ‘midnight movie’ and self-described “Cecil B. DeMille of the underground,” the Chilean artist shot to prominence as a 1970s counter-cultural icon thanks to the masterful movies presented in this selection: Fando y Lis, El Topo and The Holy Mountain. These extraordinary films bedazzled audiences, including early adopters John Lennon and Yoko Ono, with their unique aesthetic, contrasting violence and beauty; the sublime and the sacrilegious; the mystical and the macabre.
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In anticipation of our first live podcast event where we will be revisiting the iconic Twilight (2008), we had the absolute pleasure to speak with director Catherine Hardwicke. Architect of this cultural phenomenon, Catherine recounts how she landed the role and the casting process that launched the careers of its stars, Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattinson. In this hour-long interview, we explore Catherine’s journey into filmmaking as well as the distinct challenges of a female director in the industry, especially with directing blockbusters. Sadly as the only female director of the Twilight saga, we get an insight into just how rich stories can be that target an overlooked female audience and capture those first moments we all experience as when we come of age. Expect some golden stories & for your Twilight nostalgia to be reignited!
Helen Catherine Hardwicke (born October 21, 1955) is an American film director, production designer, and screenwriter. Her directorial work includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, the film’s co-star, Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), Miss Bala (2019), and Prisoner’s Daughter (2022).
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. You can watch Amalia Ulman’s feature debut El Planeta (2021) now on MUBI. Enjoy 30 days free of hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
At long last, we are glad to host our first live recording following a screening of 2008’s Twilight. A chance to meet our podcast hosts Tom, Kiriko and Hugo as they discuss the relevance of Twilight; a film that showcases a darkly stylish depiction of female desire wrapped inside an inherently silly teen vampire romance. Like it or not this romance saga had us hooked from the beginning and launched the careers of its stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. We welcome you to take a trip down memory lane and be a part of an undoubtedly very animated live podcast recording!
You can book your tickets here for 20th January!
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111 & American Dreams: The Complete Filmography of David Lynch programme)
We are delighted to announce our new partnership with MUBI, a curated streaming platform. Together, we offer you 30 days free to watch hand-picked films discussed in the ongoing podcast series, a LAB111 podcast celebrating the intricate wonders of cinema.
In celebration of David Lynch’s masterpiece Mullholland Drive being re-released in a 4K restoration, we will immerse ourselves in the now Oxford English Dictionary defined ‘Lynchian’ world. Effortlessly balancing on the dividing line between art and mainstream, artistic centipede Lynch established himself in a career full of iconic films as the figurehead of American surrealist cinema. His feature films sketch a dream reality in which he dissects the violent tendencies beneath the surface of American culture in a gruesome and humorous way. You’re in for a Lynchian-styled treat.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111 & Tales From Nightmare Alley programme)