The Clearing is selected for screening at Rencontres Internationales LOODS6/Amsterdam
at the OPENING NIGHT
Friday, December 13 | 18:00 – 00:00
Friday 13 December marks the start of Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin in Amsterdam! Globally renowned as a groundbreaking platform for audiovisual art, film, and media, curators Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Héron bring the festival to Amsterdam after 25 years. Following the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, this special edition opens at Loods 6 on Friday with film screenings, VR experiences and a unique exhibition in our Bagagehal.
Opening Night: Friday, December 13
18:00 | Doors Open
19:00 | Welcome Speech & Opening
18:00 – 19:00 | Video Loop
19:30 – 21:00 | Film Screening with The Clearing by Marco Douma and Roel Meelkop among others
18:00 – 21:00 | VR Screening
20:00 – 00:00 | DJ & Drinks
Still from The Clearing
The Clearing is part of the programme “THE BLACK SUN”.
Friday 13 December
SCREENING 7.30PM
“THE BLACK SUN”
Emmanuel van der Auwera: White Cloud | Exp. documentary | digital | colour | 0:19:00 | Belgium | 2024
Peter Rose: A Sign of the Times | Video | hdv | colour | 0:01:46 | USA | 2021
Syd Farrington: Descent | Exp. film | 16mm | colour | 0:06:00 | United Kingdom | 2023
Clemens von Wedemeyer: Surface / Composition | Exp. documentary | Digital | colour | 0:22:00 | Germany,
USA | 2023
Marco Douma, Roel Meelkop: The Clearing | Video | 4k | black and white | 0:08:49 | Netherlands | 2024
Emmanuel van der Auwera recreates a mine in Mongolia where rare earth minerals, a strategic resource essential to digital technologies, are extracted under dramatic human and environmental conditions. In a veiled metaphor, Peter Rose captures the instabilities of our time and the dangerous instability that characterises American politics today. Syd Farrington attempts to recapture the London skyline and, in an abstraction, combines the freefalling movements of recently built skyscrapers. In an associative montage, Clemens von Wedemeyer brings together infrastructures from the digital economy of contemporary California. Individuals are networked, but Silicon Valley companies are inaccessible, and public space is closed off by intelligent fences. Marco Douma and Roel Meelkop reveal a fascination for exploring the indescribable and the ambiguous, to propose an indefinable space, where space and time merge into each other, a space in which certainties disappear.