Press releases

Vincent van Velsen new Head of Exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum

28 January 2025 – As from 1 February 2025, Vincent van Velsen will start as Head of Exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum. Jaap Guldemond will hand over this leadership position to Van Velsen and transition into the newly created role of Founding Director of the Eye Art Collection.

Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien

22 January 2025 – Eye Filmmuseum is celebrating the legacy of Feministisch Film Kollektief Cinemien (1974-1989). Featuring (i.a.) 16mm projections, rarely screened titles from the Global South and newly restored works. 6 – 26 March 2025.

National release Mikhail Kalatozov films

10 December 2024 – The Cranes Are Flying and Letter Never Sent are highly praised titles from the time of the Thaw, the years of (relative) political relaxation and greater freedom for artists in the Soviet Union. Director Mikhail Kalatozov's classics have now been digitally restored and are being released nationally by Eye Filmmuseum.

Tilda Swinton headlines Eye Filmmuseum’s 2025 exhibition calendar

27 November 2024 – Eye announces 2025 exhibitions and film programmes. With exhibitions by and with Tilda Swinton, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Garrett Bradley and programmes devoted to Akira Kurosawa, the Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien and Columbia Pictures.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Inner Landscapes

13 November 2024 – Eye Filmmuseum presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands devoted to the work of acclaimed Turkish filmmaker and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Ginta Tinte Vasermane, Eye's Artist in Residence, presents video installation and film programme

7 November 2024 – Eye Filmmuseum offers a week-long platform to Artist in Residence 2024 Ginta Tinte Vasermane.

Satyajit Ray – In Search of the Modern

29 October 2024 – Bengali-Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s name has been embedded within the canon for decades now; nevertheless, his films haven’t been screened in the Netherlands for a long time. Eye Filmmuseum is now showing a cross-section of the oeuvre of this internationally celebrated director, as well as giving a national release to Ray’s famous feature debut Pather Panchali (1955). All the films in this programme have been newly digitally restored.

Eye Filmmuseum lanceert Missie Superogen

25 September 2024 – All children and their families are welcome at the festive launch of the new Mission Super Eyes discovery route on Sunday 27 October in Eye Filmmuseum. Mission Super Eyes is a discovery route crisscrossing the museum building and the exhibitions. Armed with a booklet full of assignments, children discover their super eyes. On the opening day they meet the real Super Eyes heroes in person and are treated to all kinds of extras. The discovery route is free for children.

Icons of Dutch cinema – Matthijs van Heijningen & Guurtje Buddenberg

24 September 2024 - Film producer Matthijs van Heijningen has turned 80, and Eye Filmmuseum is celebrating with a selection of the best films that he produced with partner Guurtje Buddenberg with Sigma Pictures, including Flanagan, A Flight of Flanagan, Een vlucht regenwulpen, De lift, Ciske de Rat and De bende van Oss. Frouke Fokkema's Kracht will be released nationally in a brand-new restoration from November 14.

Eye celebrates 750 years of Amsterdam

18 September 2024 – In celebration of Amsterdam's 750th anniversary, Eye Filmmuseum will screen films set in Amsterdam every month for a year. From pioneering VJ images in the Amsterdam club Mazzo and James Bond ringing the doorbell at a house on the Reguliersgracht to the liberating nude of Blue Movie in the Bijlmer and the squatter riots of the seventies and eighties.

Unique film programme accompanying Underground

10 September 2024 – In the 1960s, change was everywhere. A new generation of artists picked up their 16mm cameras, brought life back into art and vice versa, and experimented with the medium of film. With the exhibition Underground Eye Filmmuseum is presenting a complementary programme about celebrated avant-garde artists of the 1960s, with guests, lectures, performances and screenings of 16mm films.

Underground – American Avant-Garde Film in the 1960s

17 July 2023 – Exhibition and extensive film programme, Including work by Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono, Stan VanDerBeek and Andy Warhol. 13 October 2024 through 5 January 2025.

The Creative Worlds of Powell & Pressburger

25 June 2024 – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger celebrated great successes with films such as The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947) and I Know Where I'm Going! (1945). Eye Filmmuseum presents the first major overview in the Netherlands of Powell and Pressburger's work; the retrospective includes fifteen films, including rarely shown early and late work by Michael Powell.

Film programme Coen Brothers

21 June 2024 – Eye Filmmuseum will dedicate this summer to Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood's best-known and most beloved outsiders. Eye shows all eighteen of the brothers' feature films, as well as films that inspired them and on which they collaborated. The program opens with the 4K restoration of their debut film Blood Simple (1984), made exactly 40 years ago.

Sunsets: City classics in the open air

3 June 2024 – Summer movie evenings in the park at Eye Filmmuseum. During Sunsets, you can watch films at sunset in which the city is a character in itself.

Programmers of the Future present film programmes

28 May 2024 – In July, three new Programmers of the Future will present their film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum. Aileen Ye, Samuël Leemeijer and Farah Hasanbegović are the second group to make a selection of films for Eye’s cinemas and the Eye Film Player as part of this annual training programme for future film programmers.

Chia-Wei Hsu wins Eye Art & Film Prize 2024

17 May 2024 - Taiwanese artist and filmmaker Chia-Wei Hsu is the winner of the 10th Eye Art & Film Prize (2024). In his work, Hsu probes the cultural history and geopolitics of Southeast Asia.

Film Academy graduation films on the Eye Film Player

14 May 2024 - The Dutch Film Academy will give Eye Filmmuseum access to all graduation films from 1958 onwards. The films will be included to the collection in the coming years and partly made available on the Eye Film Player streaming service, starting with the first ten titles from 24 May. After that, one film will be added every month.

A new Previously Unreleased this summer!

7 May 2024 – Every summer, Eye Filmmuseum presents films by makers that were shown at prominent festivals but did not reach Dutch cinemas. These are internationally well-received films that deserve further attention. In 2024, work by well-known and debuting directors will be shown, including Radu Jude, Kelly Reichardt and Thiên An Pham. Portuguese filmmaker João Canijo's intriguing 'mirror films' Mal Viver and Viver Mal have also been selected.

Wietse Potiek appointed as Eye's new Business Director

29 April 2024 – Wietse Potiek joins Eye on 1 May as Business Director to succeed Stan Spijkerman, who will step down on May 8 after more than 35 years at Eye Filmmuseum. Potiek's appointment completes the renewal of Eye's executive team.

George Sluizer's Spoorloos returns to cinemas

23 April 2024 – Spoorloos, the Netherlands' best psychothriller, returns to the big screen fully restored. In George Sluizer's exciting, Golden Calf-winning film adaptation of Tim Krabbé's novel Het gouden ei, a young woman (Johanna ter Steege) disappears during a holiday to the south of France.

Meet the Archive 2024: pearls from the Eye Collection

9 April 2024 – Eye Filmmuseum’s curators and restorers will present their best discoveries and pieces of research at Meet the Archive. Visitors will be able to find out more about activist film in Amsterdam, the idiosyncratic oeuvre of avant-gardists Paul, Menno and Françoise de Nooijer, the re-use of film in Obsessed with Light, and the rectification of the absence of Black women in film archives.

Exhibition Albert Serra – Liberté

28 March 2024 – Eye Filmmuseum presents Albert Serra – Liberté, the first exhibition in the Netherlands about the work of Catalan film and theatre director Albert Serra. For the occasion, the artist will transform the entire exhibition space into an immersive set full of nocturnal, clandestine encounters that bring together theatre, film and exhibition.

Moving released in the Netherlands for the first time

26 March 2024 – After years on the verge of being forgotten, the oeuvre of Shinji Sômai, 'the master of the coming-of-age film', has been rediscovered. The Japanese director who died prematurely is admired by contemporary filmmakers such as Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryūsuke Hamaguchi.