Cultvideotheek at WORM presents the most expensive, carreer&studeiokillinf film in history of Hollywood. But what is the case? Heaven’s gate is actually a masterpiece, showing fantastic art-direction and camerawork.

For as long as there is film there is a great inspiration called music, in the work of (experimental) filmmakers. Tracks can determine the rhythm of the assembly (Free Radicals, Len Lye) or as in Norman McLaren’s Synchromy, the image creates the sound. When is something a short film with musical accompaniment and when is something a music video? In any case, the synergy between music and film is immensely popular and often makes short films such favorites with the public.

Produced by Werner Herzog, this is a surreal, astonishing and absolutely jaw dropping non-fiction film that throws us into the moral apocalypse following Indonesia’s 1965 military coup.

It can be: draw your own animations, get enough payed to live from it (Hertzfeldt does no commercial work) and even get an Oscar nomination.

A good idea, pencil and paper. Pitch-black humor, perfect timing, melancholy and compassion called with a few lines and do-it-yourself film tricks.

Damiel and Cassiel are two of the angels in Berlin who, from lofty vantage points, watch over the fate of the people below. Director Wim Wenders narrates this fairytale for grown-ups with wonderful ease and certainty, and Wenders’ cameraman, the great Frenchman Henri Alekan, played a major role in creating the poetic images – particularly in the powerful black-and-white sequences.

Cultvideotheek at WORM invite you a lenghtly evening with 2 filmscreenings dedicated to Russian poetry and cinema. Arie van der Ent from Cafe Tchechov will introduce the Tarkovski-classic “The Mirror” and the second feature (a tribute to the recently deceased Balabanov). Between the features a russian poetry intermezzo (films & poems russian & dutch spoken only).

Cultvideotheek at WORM presents a double bill dedicated to italian shockers from the seventies. As main feature we screen AMER, a recent (2009) interpretation of the giallo-genre, followed by a surprise genre classic. DJ Robert the Goblin will send a chill down your spines with eerie 70’s italo-electro.

This co-production between Germany, Bulgaria and Croatia is an observational documentary of Bulgarian director Ilian Metev. The film follows paramedics on one of Sofia’s most dangerous fleet of ambulances. The medical infrastructure is a disaster and ambulance services has been hit hardest. The daily stress is imaged by a series of absurdities.

We would like to invite you for the next screening of the Film Club. We will screen the movie ‘Lidice’.

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!

Deep in the San Fernando Valley, amidst rows of dilapidated warehouses, was rock n’ roll’s best kept secret: Sound City.

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.

The 18th of June, the ninth edition of Rotterdams Open Doek takes place in LantarenVenster. A platform where film makers and film lovers can meet, where new films can be shared with the audience and a lesson can be learned from an expert, the ultimate place for talent development. The special guest for this edition will be pronounced later.

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.