Museum-Cinema: Cinematic Fridays at the Museum / DEPOT—Reflecting Boijmans, 2023
Following the success of the series last year, Tel Aviv Museum of Art is once again presenting Cultural Fridays!
Almost every Friday, the finest films about art and culture will be screened, preceded by a short lecture by one of the Museum’s curators. This collaboration between the Museum, the EPOS International Festival of Art and Culture Films, the Third Ear, and the Docaviv Festival allows film aficionados to enjoy captivating and thought-provoking films from around the world, as well as a visit to exhibitions of master artists from Israel and abroad.
* Admission to the film includes a visit to the exhibitions at the Museum, subject to its opening hours
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DEPOT—Reflecting Boijmans, 2023 | Dir. Sonia Herman Dolz, Netherlands, 86 minutes, Dutch, English, German; Hebrew subtitles
Introduction: Tamar Sofer, Head of Programming
Who would have thought that a movie about building a huge warehouse could be so much fun? It’s not really a warehouse, but rather the “depot” of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, which stores 150,000 works of art, and is open to the public as a museum. Inaugurated in 2021, it looks like a shiny silver teacup from the outside, and has garnered objections and criticism as well as praise.
The Depot—a building like none other in any large city around the world—is the product of the shared vision of architect Winy Maas and Boijmans director Sjarel Ex, who dreamed of establishing a warehouse-museum. The film traces the fulfillment of that dream through colorful cinematic language. The director’s love of shapes and colors is conveyed to viewers through a mesmerizing combination of art, architecture, and cinema. Beyond that, the film authentically conveys what many architects and artists feel: that their work is the most significant undertaking in the world.
In collaboration with the EPOS Festival.