Indira van 't Klooster - AFFR
9–13 Oct 2024
film • stad • architectuur

Film – City – Architecture

AFFR explores the relationship between film, cities and architecture by programming and screening architecture films and by organizing introductions and debates.

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AFFR History

The Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) was established in 2000, and the foundation organized its festival the same year as the first architecture film festival in the world. Festivals also took place again in 2001 and 2003. In 2007 AFFR made a fresh start after a few years of silence. In 2009 the event expanded significantly in terms of visitor numbers and programming.

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Speakers

Indira van ‘t Klooster

Indira van ‘t Klooster

Indira van ‘t Klooster is director of Arcam, Amsterdam’s architecture centre. Programmes linked to this evening include the exhibition Safe Spaces – Right to Space in the City, and the Architect in Residence programmes by Lyongo Juliana, Afaina de Jong, Thijs de Zeeuw, Raumplan, Ed. Bijman and Severine Kas. Many programmes focus on the question of what designing for/with/to a just city can mean. As chair of the Local Architecture Initiatives Coordination Foundation, she is involved in the national agenda-setting of local design issues and the Day of Architecture. She is also (co-)author of a variety of publications including Women in Architecture (nai010, 2023), Welcome Home the City of Tomorrow (Arcam, 2022), Forty and Famous (Amilcar Publishers, 2016) and Reactivate! (Valiz, 2013). Previously, she was, among other things, editor-in-chief of the European magazine A10 New European Architecture and programme leader at Architectuur Lokaal dealing with commissioning and architectural policy. She graduated as an architectural historian from the University of Amsterdam.

Photography: Eva Kasbergen

film • city • architecture 9 - 13 Oct. 2024