Film & Architecture Studio 2024 - The Material World
The 2024 eidtion of our renowned course with AFFR, focused on understanding the city through the language of film led by architect, curator and filmmaker Jord den Hollander - September 2024.
In September 2024, the Independent School for the City and AFFR (Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam) joined forces again to organise another edition of the famous Film and Architecture Studio, supervised by architect, curator, and filmmaker Jord den Hollander. This year's edition was focused on 'the material world', exploring basic elements of what the city has been made of.
The Film and Architecture Studio has proved itself in the past years as one of the most acclaimed courses on film and architecture in the world. It is a one-week course that offers and in-depth introduction to understanding the language of film as a way to explore the relationship between film, cities and architecture. The course focuses on learning and understanding the narrative of filmmaking as a research tool to better understand your urban surroundings. Participants in this course are introduced to the essential elements of filmmaking and learn how to relate these to architecture and the city. The focus of the studio is not so much on the technical aspects of filmmaking and postproduction, but rather on making a script and using film as a tool to structure your thoughts and to develop a narrative.
The focus of the 2024 edition is 'The Material World' delving into the basic elements that constitute our urban environment. The material world offers a cinematic deconstruction of the city, surveying the fundamental particles that reveal our growing awareness of shrinking resources. How did these materials get here, how were they made, how much energy did it cost to produce them, how were they joint together to create this amazing myriad of materials that forms the setting of our daily life?
Participants got the opportunity to present their short films at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam on the 10th of October 2024.
About Jord den Hollander
After having finished his master’s in architecture at the Technical University of Delft, Jord den Hollander followed a course in scenario writing at the Filmschool in London. Throughout his career he has often combined both disciplines. He has made documentaries about art and architecture, has written and directed internationally acclaimed television series for children about art and science and he was one of the founders of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (www.affr.nl), the world’s biggest architecture film festival, which he co-founded in 2002. In addition, he has designed a unique oeuvre that includes an architecture center for children in Almere, a mobile kid’s library, a floating hotel and a tensegrity bicycle bridge.