Dag van de Amateurfilm 2012
On Friday September 28th the annual ‘Amateur Film Day’ takes place during the Netherlands Film Festival. This year’s theme: ‘congratulations’. The theme of ‘Congratulations’ allows the Amateur Film Day to celebrate several anniversaries and milestones in the field of amateur film, among…
Summer School: ‘Everyday appropriation of technology’
Between 20-25th of August, 2012 a Summer School on ‘The Everyday Appropriation of Technology” is organized by Maastricht University and TU Darmstadt. Location: Waldemar Peterson House in Riezlern, Austria. “The present diffusion of so-called smart phones illustrates the main topic of the…
Turkowski’s ‘Margarete’ at Noorderzon 2012
“During performing arts festival Noorderzon (Groningen, The Netherland) Polish performer Janek Turkowski offered a surprisingly small and intimate filmic refuge from the predominantly big and spectacular main programme. His Margarete evokes a time long gone, on the other side of…
RMeS Summer School: Media in transition
From June 25th-29th, 2012 the RMeS Summer School took place at Utrecht of Groningen. Theme: “Media in transition“. “Traditionally, research in the Humanities focuses on textual artifacts. Media scholars, whether they come from historical, cultural, literary, film or journalism studies,…