Gerlinda Heywegen
(1968) is a programmer, writer, organizer, lecturer and podcaster, mainly on the subject of film and often in combination with literature. Koning Film is the collective of speakers on film that she established. Heywegen's books include The Other Director, about directors of photography; she collaborated with Frans Westra on Passie voor Cinema (Passion for Cinema), which highlights four decades of film screenings in the Netherlands; and she edited and wrote for the film magazine Skrien. Currently, she writes regularly for the websites of the Netherlands Society of Cinematographers and literary magazine Elders.
Past events
Films of My Life: Alejandra Ortiz presents her favorite film fragments
Gerlinda Heywegen spoke with Alejandra using film clips by Pedro Almodóvar and others about machismo and (trans)women in films, among other things.
She-Room: When does she rule, or does she at all?
Madonna, myth or housewife? A cinematic essay about women on the silver screen.
Rosabelle Illes: On Visibly Invisible stories
A conversation with the Aruban poet about her cinematic inspiration, based on clips chosen by her and her video performances
Film: Writer Vamba Sherif on Imgages of Africa
Writer and film critic Serif tells us, via excerpts, about filmmakers like Sembène, Haroun and Sissako
Film: Colony of Images
A film lecture about the importance of decolonizing and removing (offensive) stereotypes from film, accompanied by good and bad examples.
Forever Clips Clips Clips
Writers Hanna Bervoets and Mark O'Connell and film curator Gerlinda Heywegen presented and commented on video clips, short films and excerpts from games and feature films related to the festival theme 'Who wants to live forever?'
Auke Hulst on writer Philip K. Dick and 'A Scanner Darkly'
Dutch author, composer and musician on the works of American cult writer Philip K. Dick, famous for his prescience about the downsides of technology, consumption and hedonism.
Leni Zumas: Why Would Women Want to Live Forever?
Why do women want to live forever? US writer and essayist Leni Zumas answers this and other questions via selected film excerpts.
Till Death Do Us Part
A road trip with film-fragments around life, death and the desire for eternal life.
Immortality by Choice
Philosopher Tom Dommisse shared his thoughts about immortality and illustrates them with excerpts from films like E.T., Blade Runner, Wall-E, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Citizen Kane.
Batman Nation
Get to know the Dark Knight better in this highly amusing collage of Batman-clips and win an original Batman drawing by cartoonist Romano Molenaar.
Marx Today
As an introduction to the screening of The Young Karl Marx, writer Gustaaf Peek tells more about his pamphlet Resist! A Plea for Communism.
Power to The People: Film as Weapon
Film college about combative cinema with excerpts from a.o. the works of Spike Lee, Michael Moore and Daniel Blake.
Speech!
Cultural philosopher Tom Dommisse speaks about the speech as powerful and filmic instrument, showing excerpts from film and TV.
Under the Skin – "Real" Life?
Bestselling Australian author Michael Faber interviewed about his fascination with literary works adapted to the screen. Followed by the screening of Under the Skin, based on his own hit novel.
Might is Always Right - Lessons from House of Cards
While the USA welcome their new president, we investigate another one: Frank Underwood, star of House of Cards. How are politics presented there and what image of themselves do real-life Underwoods create?
Don't Look Now - films to scare you silly
Why do we love to watch scary scenes on the big screen? An anthology of the mechanisms behind "delicious" horror, with lots of film clips from various genres.
Film: Shakespeare’s villains
Bad people acting from clear motives like jealousy, passion, rage, blind ambition, or bitterness: it's not that difficult to recognize todays bad guys in clips from screen adaptations of Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III a.o.
Rodaan Al Galidi's Film Picks
With clips from Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), La Grande Bellezza (Sorentino), Der Untergang (Hirschbiegel) and Holy Motors (Léos Carax).
The Film Picks of P.F. Thomése
With clips from The Silence (Bergman), Otto e Mezzo (Fellini), Goodfellas (Scorsese), The Big Lebowski (J&E Coen) and J. Kessels, The Novel (Erik de Bruyn).
