Friday 12 May the first edition of the Streaming Festival {The Hague} kicks off. At this three day international film festival, films do not play in theatres but can be viewed on six different film related websites. The Streaming Festival shows artistic films and videos. The festival opens at 20.00 hrs (gmt+1) with the films of our special guests Dré Didderiëns (Trains and Rabbits), Jan Wouter van Reijen (Gagged), Jasper Scheepbouwer (Noise) and Melinda Jansen (Leda).
The Streaming Festival is a platform for independent filmmakers who make their films without subsidy. Just like at a regular film festival, visitors of the Streaming Festival will be able to choose from different programmes and switch between viewing locations. With this festival the organising Syntocin foundation wants to give an impulse to the audiovisual arts and to look into the possibilities of new media for artists.
Syntocin selected exceptional wayward films from all over the world. All films will be shown in program blocks. To make sure viewers from different time zones won’t miss anything, each block of films will be shown several times.
Dré Didderiëns makes the kind of characteristic wayward films that fit the Streaming Festival. His documentaries are honest and involved. His debut ‘Trains and Rabbits’ is a tragic-comic fiction film about a train machinist who can’t tell fiction and reality apart after a traumatic accident. Also at this festival: Red Wine and Wet feet. This is a portrait of filmmaker Jef van der Heijden who made ‘Unconsecrated Earth’, black and white feature film that was legally prohibited in the Netherlands in the 1967s. At the Streaming Festival this movie gets a second chance.
Jasper Scheepbouwer manages to make technically perfect and very original films without the aid of subsidy. His film Noise elaborates subtlety on neighbourly disturbance.
Melinda Jansen is director, scriptwriter, producer and editor. She makes delicate films. Leda is about a woman who want to die. She asks her friends to carry out her death wish.
The Streaming Festival has been initiated by the Syntocin Foundation in cooperation with several influential audiovisual art institutions like: the new filmmakers association (NFTVM), SubmarineChannel, the Dutch institute for animation film (NIAf), The Film City Foundation (Filmstad), Lazy Marie Foundation, TENT and the Vrije Academie.
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