As part of our new partnership with Mubi, we had the exclusive chance to speak with Artist-turned-filmmaker Amalia Ulman about her feature debut El Planeta. This dark comedy, set in Amalia’s childhood town Gijon, is a fresh twist on the precarious economic conditions the working-class can find themselves in. In this candid interview Amalia shares what it was like to make her first film, co-starring with her mother, and why her work across different mediums is so narrative driven.
You can enjoy 30 days free of handpicked cinema at mubi.com/lab111, including Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta (2021).
Amalia Ulman (born 1989) is an Argentinian acclaimed artist and film director based in New York City whose practice includes performance, installation, video and net-art works. Her work deals with issues of class, gender, sexuality, and middlebrow aesthetics.[1][2][3] In 2021, Ulman made her feature film debut, with El Planeta.
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.
Widely regarded as the bald bad boy of contemporary French cinema, Gaspar Noé has been disrupting movies and polarising opinions for the past twenty years with his visceral blend of provocative films. Joining filmmaker Kiriko, Gaspar discusses his latest film Vortex (2021), as well as his experiences working with legendary Italian ‘giallo’ maestro Dario Argento and his love for Tokyo, as depicted in Enter The Void.
Special thanks to Paradiso Films for this amazing opportunity.
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload style, most notably in Enter the Void.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111 & Enter Noé 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.
Often described as the grimmest of all Hollywood film noirs, Nightmare Alley’s reputation as a cult classic reached near-mythical status due to a decades-long dispute between the film’s producer and studio Fox, which prevented it from being screened anywhere. With the conflict resolved, Nightmare Alley can finally be re-discovered in a stunning 4K restoration celebrating its 75th anniversary as one of the most darkly sophisticated noirs of the period. In celebration of our current programme Tales from Nightmare Alley, a selection of more than 15 (!) film-noir classics, we take a dive down memory lane and discuss an iconic moment in Hollywood history.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111 & Au Revoir Godard programme)
Director Martijn de Jong joins producer Elliot to discuss his feature debut Narcosis. Selected as this year’s Dutch Oscar entry, this tender portrayal of familial love & mourning gives our audience a window to Martijn’s approach to filmmaking. With a desire to move people and connect with his audience, together they explore his journey as a director from commercials to his first feature. While discussing cinematic moments that have impacted Martijn, he offers a unique insight into the Dutch film landscape as a whole – is a Dutch resurgence on the horizon?
Martijn is a director at Wefilm. He graduated with honors at the Willem de Kooning Academy in 2004 and worked as a creative for several advertising agencies. He decided to study at the Dutch Film Academy, after which we asked him to join Wefilm. The live twitter film Martijn created won the Grand Prix at the ADCN awards 2013 for the most outstanding campaign that year. At the Film Academy, he made several short films, all subtle and elegant. He won advertising awards such as Spinawards, ADCN Awards, VCP Kodak Award, Esprix, and a Cannes Lion. Martijn specializes in realistic commercials and online films dealing with the small inconveniences in life. Next to his work at Wefilm, Martijn directs and writes fiction films.
As longtime admirers of Mia Hansen-Løve’s body of work here on the podcast, producer Elliot hosts a very candid and revealing conversation with the French director. In her latest film Un Beau Matin, Mia describes it as her most auto-biographical film to date. Mia shares how she is able to explore such existential questions from such an intimate portrait. Find out what moves Mia to make films and why cinema for her is a tool for understanding her life’s journey.
In 2001, Mia Hansen-Løve began studying at the municipal Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris’ 10th district but she dropped our after two years to contribute instead to the famous film magazine “Les Cahiers du Cinéma”, where Olivier Assayas also wrote. In 2001, she tried her hand at directing and, as of the first day of shooting, discovered that this WAS what she wanted to do. The result was Après mûre réflexion (2004). Since then, although aged only twenty-eight, she has already made two more films, All Is Forgiven (2007) and Father of My Children (2009), both acclaimed by the critics, both showing consistent thematic and stylistic unity.
Directors Sarah Blok & Lisa Konno join to discuss their short trilogy of non-traditional immigrant story of fathers. With an exhibition at this year’s Dutch Design Week and the release of their book, which you can buy here, we explore how this hybrid form of fashion-stylised documentaries can offer a more intimate portrayal of their subjects. Candidly, Lisa & Sarah share the inspiration behind this project and why they embraced a more honest lens through which they share these stories.
Sarah Blok is driven by the urge to show people the poetry of what we call ‘everyday life’, she writes and directs stories in different narrative forms: theatre, fiction film and documentary. Her work is about people living in today’s world and therefore inevitably considers the concepts that characterise our age: impact, wokeness, self-development, authenticity and moral superiority.
Lisa Konno is an artist and designer based in Amsterdam. In 2015 she started her practice by making collections from textile waste that made statements about the unethical habits of the fashion industry. In 2018 she won a Dutch Design Award. Since the work on the short film NOBU – a stylized portrait of her Japanese father – filmmaking became a place for Lisa to express narratives through fashion, and fashion became a tool for portraying deeply personal stories that speak to universal themes.
Lauren Mae Murphy is a cultural facilitator based in Amsterdam with a background in film studies, fantastic cinema and photography. While programmer of Imagine Film Festival, Lauren is also head of content at Cineville, an independent platform that aims to make independent cinema more accessible. Lauren sees Imagine sees fantastic fiction as a rich source of thought experiments that anticipate or reflect on social and technological developments.
Stanislaw Liguzinski is the head VR programmer of Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam (NL), a co-director of the Essay Film Studio of Lodz Film School, and a Research Coordinator at the Netherlands Film Academy. Being a graduate of academic programmes in media, film and critical theory but also the Master of Film programme in the Nederlandse Film Academy, he combines both practice and theory to develop credible forms of practice-based research in XR and film. He wrote for major Polish media outlets, edited journals, curated programs and XR experiences for international film festivals and cultural institutions. He is conducting research into videographic forms of thinking.
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. Every month you can check out our featured films, including titles we’ve discussed on previous episodes & movie classics to feast upon.
After the recent passing of the iconic French director Jean-Luc Godard, the gang is back to celebrate Godard. Accompanied by the release of the Au Revoir Godard programme at LAB111, we share our most intimate memories of a man who forever changed the face of cinema.
(click on the links for tickets to screenings at LAB111 & Imagine Film Festival)
If a loved-one decided they had enough of life and wanted it to come to an end, how would you respond? Director, Floor van der Meulen joins Elliot to explore her fictional feature debut Pink Moon that asks this very question of its audience. In this candid discussion, Floor and Elliot unpack the roots of desire for a self-determined death, is it a reflection of a disconnected and lonely society? With previous experience in documentary filmmaking, Floor explains what it’s like switching between the two forms of cinema and why she enjoys experimenting with both.
Floor van der Meulen is a filmmaker who graduated from Willem de Kooning in 2012. Since then, Floor has gone on to direct various documentaries including 9 days: From My Window in Aleppo (2016) and Last Male Standing (2019). Pink Moon (2022) is her fictional feature debut.
Are we witnessing the end of American mainstream cinema? Diving deep into this topic, Hugo invites filmmaker, film critic and video essay connoisseur Scout Tafoya. In collaboration with Tucker Johnson, Scout explores this very question with a compelling 10-part video-essay series through the lens of Ridley & Tony Scott as the forefathers of the American blockbuster. Why has Hollywood become so stale? Together, Hugo & Scout discuss the End of History, the end of American cinema as we know it, but what comes next?
Scout Tafoya is a film critic, video essayist, filmmaker, and author of Cinemaphagy: On The Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper, the first book-length critical study of the director of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” Originally from from Doylestown, PA, he is the creator of RogerEbert.com’s The Unloved, the longest running video essay series on the web, about movies in need of a second look. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Film Comment, Nylon Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Film Stage among others. He is the director of over 25 feature films including “Eyam,” “House of Little Deaths,” and “Beata Virgo Viscera,” which debuted on RogerEbert.com. His features and his extensive video essay work can be found at Patreon.com/honorszombie.
Find out how a particular holiday experience led director Christian Tafdrup to write his latest film Speak No Evil (2022). Out now here in The Netherlands, this suspenseful dark comedy about a holiday encounter between a Dutch & Danish family comes with a chilling twist. Speaking with Elliot, Christian shares how his playful approach to horror genre conventions helps create a truly visceral experience.
Christian Tafdrup is an actor and director. He is known for starring in Borgen (2010-2022), and directing Parents (2016), A Horrible Woman (2017), and Speak No Evil (2022).
Are we witnessing the end of American mainstream cinema? Diving deep into this topic, Hugo invites filmmaker, film critic and video essay connoisseur Scout Tafoya. In collaboration with Tucker Johnson, Scout explores this very question with a compelling 10-part video-essay series through the lens of Ridley & Tony Scott as the forefathers of the American blockbuster. Why has Hollywood become so stale? Together, Hugo & Scout discuss the End of History, the end of American cinema as we know it, but what comes next?