Excursions & Exhibition
At the Department of Comparative Arts & Media Studies, I regularly organize excursions, for instance to the Amsterdam Tuschinski Theater, the poster department & library of the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, the Cineco film laboratory in Amsterdam, the Poster Museum in Hoorn or the restoration department of the Filmmuseum in Overveen.
In March-April 2005, our Department conceptualized and collaborated in the execution of the exhibition Blikvangers, 60 jaar filmaffiches in Nederland [Eyecatchers, 60 years of film posters in the Netherlands]. The exhibition was a joined venture of the Filmmuseum, the Premsela Foundation, the Exposorium of the Vrije Universiteit and our Department. Two students of my film poster course worked on the exhibition as trainees at the Exposorium of the Vrije Universiteit. See the site of designws.com for my opening speech [in Dutch] and the Newspage of the department site for text& photos on the opening and the exhibition under ‘Tentoonstelling Blikvangers’.
In March-April 2005, our Department conceptualized and collaborated in the execution of the exhibition Blikvangers, 60 jaar filmaffiches in Nederland [Eyecatchers, 60 years of film posters in the Netherlands]. The exhibition was a joined venture of the Filmmuseum, the Premsela Foundation, the Exposorium of the Vrije Universiteit and our Department. Two students of my film poster course worked on the exhibition as trainees at the Exposorium of the Vrije Universiteit. See the site of designws.com for my opening speech [in Dutch] and the Newspage of the department site for text& photos on the opening and the exhibition under ‘Tentoonstelling Blikvangers’.
In 2004-5, I introduced a course on the history of film posters, the first universitary course on this topic in the whole of Europe. The film poster course was a joined venture by the Filmmuseum and the Premsela Foundation. The course gives an international panoramic overview, but the student’s research is focused on Dutch film posters in the collection of the Filmmuseum. At the first lecture, in September 2004, the national broadcasting news NOS-Journaal even came filming. For the course of February-March 2006, see the Facultary site and the Newspage of the department site Guest lecturers in 2006 were Paul van Yperen (Premsela Foundation), Paul Verstraeten (Bureau Filmtest, film marketing expert), Gijs Kuijper (professional film poster designer) and Cyprian Koscielniak (illustrator at the NRC daily, former Polish film poster designer and former assistant of poster designer Henryk Tomaszewski). In 2007 we had John Durie, international marketing expert, together with Van Yperen. In 2008 Paul van Yperen lectured when poster designer Ad Werner attended, together with guests from Filmmuseum, Premsela and private collector and designer Gielijn Escher. The seminar ended with a guest lecture by film critic and graphic designer Jan Pieter Ekker.
For guest lecturer Paul van Yperen, see his paper on the Premsela site For the Powerpoint presentation of guest lecturer Paul Verstraeten, see the Premsela site
Various extranei attended the seminar over the years: archivists from the Rotterdam and the Hague city archive and from the Filmmuseum, graphic designers, private collectors film education officers etc., next to students from other departments and universities.
For guest lecturer Paul van Yperen, see his paper on the Premsela site For the Powerpoint presentation of guest lecturer Paul Verstraeten, see the Premsela site
Various extranei attended the seminar over the years: archivists from the Rotterdam and the Hague city archive and from the Filmmuseum, graphic designers, private collectors film education officers etc., next to students from other departments and universities.