The 39th edition of the International Film Festival in Rotterdam will be held on January 27th through February 7th. It looks like there is going to be tons of interesting films from all over the world. Here is the full list of films.
Here are a few I’m interested to see.
The first annual Amsterdam Burlesque Festival will take place over 4 days between November 19-22. 50 international entertainers will perform classic striptease, circus sideshow, and variety arts. The Festival will be held in west Amsterdam in the Casblanca Circus Tent. Get your tickets here.
An art festival about Japan in Amsterdam?! Yay. The Camera Japan Festival celebrates everything Japanese. There will be feature films, dance, anime, food, music, documentaries, exhibitions and even a cosplay cafe! It will be held from October 1-7 at the Melkweg and Kriterion.
This film called Tokyo! looks amazing! Playing Friday night at the Kriterion at 19.30.
I know many blog posts about the PICNIC conference from this weekend have been floating around the web the past few days. Most of them discussing the topics covered by the speakers and the future of new media. I was however so blown away by the innovative interior design at PICNIC and felt it deserved some attention.
A scrolling, flashing light that said “Not Your Ordinary”. The main dome had several different areas set up like a digital utopian park.
A Twitter tree. You can go up to a pillow, have a seat and connect your laptop/iphone and tweet about PICNIC. The tweets were displayed on a screen above the tree.
Guys playing video games instead of attending a conference session.
Psuedo living rooms were scattered about the conference.
A very entertaining performance art piece that occurred throughout the conference in different locations.
PICNIC is a three day conference for creatives in the field of Art, Design, Technology, New Media and more. It takes place from 23 to 25 September at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Below is a promotional video describing the festival. I will be there Friday! Get your ticket here.
