An exploration of contemporary anthropological cinema and landscape film.
Friday 8 November – Sunday 10 November 2019 at WORM Rotterdam
The second edition of Field Recordings examines the relationship between people, culture
and landscape. Central questions are: How does our environment shape our thinking and
acting? Who determines how we treat the earth and each other? And what role does film play
in our representation of nature, city and everything in between? Field Recordings questions
the history of anthropology with a program of critical films about representation, place and
language.
On Friday 8 November, British filmmaker Maeve Brennan will be present to present her most
recent work, with beautifully charged images from Beirut and a sharp documentary about bats and the
Anthropocene. Another Gaze editor Hannah Paveck talks to her about silence, storytelling
and sociopolitical conflicts.
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 November include focus programs by Laida Lertxundi, Sky Hopinka
and Louise Botkay, the Dutch premiere of James Bennings installation work L. Cohen, the
launch of a print publication of film collective Film, Place Editions and work by Deborah
Stratman, Baloji and Xurxo Chirro.
Experimental filmmaker Laida Lertxundi is present to show her 16mm work. Her most recent
film, Words, Planets, is a structuralist portrait of Los Angeles with impressive vistas and small
gestures of residents and visitors. The Rotterdam-based sound artist Jarra also takes us on a
live performance full of local soundscapes and ethnographic field recordings.
On Sunday, November 10, local filmmakers Suni Satoinong and André Schreuders show their
latest work. Schreuders Engelen investigates our unceasing pursuit of an urban paradise,
while Satoinong lets two ghosts talk about life and death on the Indonesian island of Siberut.
Field Recordings 2 is compiled and organized by Tim Leyendekker and Sander Hölsgens, in
close collaboration with Hannah Paveck, Kaya Erdinç, Filmwerkplaats and WORM.
The event is made possible in part by a contribution from the Municipality of Rotterdam and
Mondriaan Fonds.
You can find the full program here