FACES: THE FILM POSTER

WORLD PREMIER FACES AT IDFA

World premier of the documentary Faces at IDFA on November 28. The movie will be screened at Tuschinski Theater in the presence of the director and JR. Tickets for the screening can be bought at the IDFA site.

Date: November 28
Time: 19:30
Location: Tuschinski Theater, Hall # 1

The documentary ‘Faces’ tells the fascinating story of French photographer and street artist JR who in March 2007 embarked on the biggest illegal photo exhibition ever. Together with his friend Marco, JR pasted enormous smiling portraits of Israeli and Palestinians who hold the same job on different sides of the wall. From the first photo shoots to the eventual pasting in such hotbeds like Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Hebron and Ramallah: the camera was there, capturing JR’s work, the pasting, but also the emotional reactions of the people of Israel and Palestine.

CONCRETE CANVAS AMSTERDAM PREMIERES NOVEMBER 26

Voom’s Gallery HD, the only high-definition channel devoted to the visual arts, is taking it to the streets for an in-depth look at the visually stunning and often controversial world of street art in a new half-hour weekly series, Concrete Canvas. The series explores the works of each city’s most famous -- and in some cases, infamous -- street artists, including London’s D*Face, Amsterdam’s Laser 3.14, New York’s Swoon, and Paris’ Blek le Rat, the “Godfather of Stencil Art.” Miss van Gaalen served as creative consultant for the Amsterdam episode.

Episode 6: Amsterdam
TV-G
Premieres November 26 at 8 pm ET and PT/7C
Beever’s 3D work in Holland’s most picturesque port-of-call brings to life the city’s most famous icons – tulips, canals, bridges and of course, its Dutch master painters. This episode also presents noted street artist Laser 3.14 and his “Aerosol Symphonies” exhibition, where the works of 14 street artists are married with music, as well as Faith 71, whose spray can pieces graduated from the streets to the galleries.

BLAADJE + MAGAZINE PARTY

The release of Blaadje # 4 is upon us. For this year’s magazine, Miss van Gaalen got to interview Dutch fashion darling and designer Percy Irausquin, as well as the incredibly inspiring Diederiekje Bok of renowned advertising agency John Doe.

Blaadje # 4 will be launched during the Magazine Party.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
WestergasTerras, WesterUnie, WesterLiefde
21:00-04.00

THE AFTERMATH: DEBATE ON ART IN PUBLIC DOMAIN

This summer the city council of Amsterdam objected to the JR exhibition. What followed was a very public debate about JR's work. Following the controversy, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts - one of the sponsors of the JR exhibition - is organizing a debate on art and the public domain.

Parooltheater
November 5, 2007
20:00

BOOK LAUNCH: MASTERS OF RIETVELD

This book contains an overview of a selection of great and important designers who have emerged from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. This book is almost a work of art in itself, full of visual references ordered by form, as if it were a morph. The visual concept by Coralie Vogelaar refers to the idea of an encyclopedia as we once knew it before the digital revolution. The designer’s task today is not so much to make new images as to give new meaning to the bombardment of images around us.

Book launch: Saturday 27 October at 20:00

Contributors include:
Martijn Engelbregt, Anneloes van Gaalen, Mieke Gerritzen, Oscar Kocken, Ank van Loon, Geert Lovink, Rob Schröder, TINKEBELL, and more.

WE'RE GOING TO IDFA!!!

Our new JR documentary ‘FACES’ has been selected for the 20th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2007 which will take place from 22 November – 2 December.

‘FACES’ has been selected for the Joris Ivens Competition. This means that it will be eligible for the Joris Ivens Award and the IDFA Audience Award!!

This is the best news ever!!