Since the fog is hold­ing Rot­ter­dam hostage since a few days (my won­der­ful theory burst into pieces…) you’ll be happy to hear that next week­end (Oct. 11th to 14th) we’ll have the archi­tec­tur film fes­ti­val in town.

Reser­va­tions are pos­si­ble since a few days so get to the phone (010) 411 5300 and make sure you get to see a few delicacies.

Our pre­lim­i­nary tips would be:

• De Groot­ste Archi­tect Van Ned­er­land (to be trans­lated as either the tallest or the great­est archi­tect of the nether­lands, which might both be true…), a doc­u­men­tary on Huig Maaskant as a walk-​in movie in Hotel New York. details
• Radi­ant City, the open­ing movie ‘Suburbia: Politi­cians call it growth. Devel­op­ers call it busi­ness. The Moss family call it home.’ details (You should get to see it on Thurs­day, cause then its play­ing in the amaz­ing, can­tilever­ing audi­to­rium of the Schip­vaarts & Trans­port Col­lege by NeutelingsRiedijk.)
• LA Plays Itself, three hour ‘essay’ by New York Film­maker Encke King on the cast of the city in dif­fer­ent movies. details
• Site Spe­cific, Olivo Barbieri’s semi-​blurred heli­copter shots across urban land­scapes that look like mar­quettes. (If you haven’t seen it in the NAi’s Spec­tac­u­lar City show last year). details
• Build­ing the Gherkin, well… need­less to explain I guess. details
• and, I guess you won’t miss it anyway: Rem Kool­haas, A Kind Of Archi­tect, OMA’s press offi­cer: ‘we are extremely happy, it is a good film’ details

You’ll find a sum­ma­rized pro­gram in our cal­en­dar, for fur­ther details check www.​affr.nl
Enjoy and let us know what you liked!