A series of shorts and very shorts: commercials, semi commercials, product-related films that look at the origins of commerce. With contributions from artists and filmmakers.

See Me Hear Me presents “The Secret Disco Revolution”, a film by Jamie Kastner, takes you back to the beginning of the disco era. A look behind the scenes of disco and all it’s great artists. It’ll be hard to stay seatted during this docu… Afterwards a great party with the best discosongs!

Friday May 10th the Cineville Filmquiz (qualifying round Rotterdam) will be held in LantarenVenster. Especially for those movie connoisseurs who understand that trivial (film) facts do matter.

TURNING is an 85 minute documentary feature. The documentary features the award-winning tour of the live multi-media performance concert, directed by Antony and the Johnsons and Charles Atlas.

In this Episode of the KINOCLUB we will make a journey into the fascinating world of animation. Analogue & computer originated, stop motion & realtime techniques. From abstract to story based work, from music videos to short films. A mixture of old, but mostly new and hopefully unseen works. Join us and enjoy a night full of animation wonder!

Twenty years after the reunification, the DDR history is again a topic of interest - in short films by filmmakers and artists living in Germany. They consider the role of the East German artists, athletes and intellectuals. For most part the witnesses and documents speak for themselves, which sometimes even evokes a little humor.

Hans Richter’s ‘Dreams that Money Can Buy’ is a 1947 experimental film considered a classic of avant garde cinema. The film tells the story of Joe Narcissus, a man who struggles to pay his rent until he discovers the power to create custom-made dreams for a variety of troubled clients.

Kino Klub Goethe presents its third feature, the movie Der Amerikanische Freund. In this movie Wim Wenders’ mines Dennis Hopper’s real-life experience as a painter and collector in an existential take on the American gangster film; based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley.

WORM/Cultvideo invites to a special evening dedicated to appreciation of whiskey! 5 euro for the film plus 5 euro for the tasting and you get 5 exquisit brands. (small charge per glass).

Together with the Leeszaal, Kriterion Rotterdam presents the ninth edition of Kriterion Kult Klassiekers. From January until August Kriterion Rotterdam Rotterdam will travel through the city with this new project. Every other Thursday Kriterion Rotterdam will show controversial and unpredictable films at four unconventional locations.

Lecture with Leonor Jonker about ‘No Wave’.

Movie: ‘The Hardcore Collection’ (by: Richard Kern, with o.a. Lydia Lunch).

Every Saturday evening Stichting Afri presents Film and Music at the Wijkwaardenhuis. Topics are related to cultural, social and economical values.

From the King of Bizar Matsumoto (Big Man Japan, Sabbard Samourai).

A series about contemporary dandyism in Rotterdam.

The political films in this programme, ranging in date from 1961 to 2010, often present quite an unvarnished view of the world.

Gilderoy, a dangerously introverted sound engineer is in an Italian studio to provide the soundtrack to a sleazily low budget 1970s giallo horror - the genre made famous by Dario Argento featuring liberal doses of sex, violence and Satanism.