Eye on Art – juni 2020

Be Pretty and Shut Up! – 6 June 19.15
The French actress Delphine Seyrig impressed as the lead in Jeanne Dielman, the film that was Chantal Akerman’s breakthrough. The filmmaker, who died in 2015, would have turned 70 today. In a tribute to Akerman, University of Amsterdam Professor of Film Studies Patricia Pisters focuses on the life and work of Seyrig, a major feminist figure in the 1970s who directed a number of feminist films.
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Restored & Unseen: The Ascent – 22 June 18.15
Larisa Sheptiko’s overwhelming last film. Shepitko, one of the greatest film talents of the Soviet Union, won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival for this spiritual and transcendent masterpiece. The Ascent was restored by Mosfilm in 2018. Introduced by programmer Leo van Hee.
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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie through Cinema. Part I – 24 June 20.00
A vertiginous trip through the history of cinema as seen through the eyes of the greatest of female directors. Our guides are Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda, Debra Winger, Adjoa Andoh, Kerry Fox, Thandie Newton and Sharmila Tagore. Love, life, humour, politics and death all feature in this epic, 14-hour road journey screened in five instalments.
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché – 28 June 16.00
Only film specialists are in the know: the early cinema had a remarkable share of women behind the camera. One of them was Alice Guy-Blaché, who was very successful with her New Jersey-based Solax production company. Jodie Foster talks about the virtually forgotten life story of this director, producer and film pioneer. Preceded by: Two Little Rangers (1912), a short film by Alice Guy-Blanché, with live piano accompaniment by Nora Mulder.
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Exhibition Chantal Akerman – Passages
1 June – 1 September
This Summer, Eye presents a major solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman. Akerman was one of the first film directors who made the switch to visual art. She rose to fame in the 1970s as a feminist avant-garde filmmaker, and midway through the 1990s she discovered the possibilities of the art gallery.
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Film programme Women Make Film
1 June – 1 September
This Summer in Eye: a concealed version of film history, with women in the starring role. Female filmmakers played an important role from the early days of cinema; they operated cameras, directed and also worked as producers. We shine the spotlight on a new canon, with work by Ida Lupino, Věra Chytilová and Mira Nair, and special attention for the films of Chantal Akerman.
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