Looking away - Tijs Goldschmidt

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Date and time Saturday 22 January 2005 21:10 tot 22:05 uur
Location Filmhuis - zaal 4

Recently the biologist and writer Tijs Goldschmidt put together an exhibition of photo's entitled Wegkijken (Looking away), these are photo's which depict the emotion of shame. For Winternachten he made a selection of film fragments that also cause you to avert your eyes. Subject is: how human are the apes, and how unhuman do humans treat them? How did the ape Coco Mdume learn to talk? How did Canzi the bonobo make telephone calls? What is done to the gorilla's in Ruanda? Fragments from films like 'Ape Hunters', by Jeremy Bristow, a movie that received the 'Green Oscar' at the International Wild Screen Festival in Bristol.
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Tijs Goldschmidt

(Amsterdam, NL 1953) is an evolutionary biologist and a writer. In his essays he presents himself as the missing link between the arts and the sciences. Again and again he places science in a broader cultural framework. In his collections of essays Vis in Bad (Fish in the Bath, 2014) and Kloten van de engel (Angels' Balls; 2007) he shows that culture is often much more natural than we think. In september 2016 a collection of his essays, The Other Left Side will be published by Seven Stories Press in New York. After graduation Goldschmidt left for Tanzania for five years to study cichlids (Percidae) in Lake Victoria. That study resulted in a Ph.D. thesis and a book combining his scientific findings with personal experiences: Darwin's Dreampond (1994). This debut was translated in English, French, German, Japanese and Chinese, among others. In 1993 Goldschmidt decided to give up his academic career to become a fulltime writer. In 2007 he delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden entitled Pretending to pretend. Since 2009, Tijs Goldschmidt is advisor to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam.
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