Masterclass with Barbara Visser and Vincent Boy Kars about hybrid films between fiction and documentary.

FilmForward’s Vrijplaats Residency is organizing a masterclass with filmmakers Barbara Visser and Vincent Boy Kars about hybrid films. A new film by both directors was shown in theaters in recent months. In Alreadymade, Visser went looking for the ‘real creator’ of the most famous work of art of the twentieth century: Marcel Duchamp’s piss pot. With Future Me, Kars made the final part of his ‘millennial trilogy’, in which he, among other things, has himself played by an actor.

Using film fragments, Vrijplaats curator and film journalist Dana Linssen talks to Barbara Visser and Vincent Boy Kars about what makes hybrid films so attractive. Together we also try to find a definition. Is it just a mix of what we understand between fact and fiction? Or is there more going on?

about the speakers

Barbara Visser studied photography and audiovisual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Cooper Union in New York and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Her work focuses on cultural and historical stories and the form in which they manifest themselves through film, art, design, digital tools and other media. She also does this in the temporary master’s program F for Fact (2020-20240) that she set up at the Sandberg Institute. In 2017, Visser was interim director of IDFA. She made the films C.K. (2012), The End of Fear (2018) and Alreadymade ( 2023), of which a museum presentation will be on display in Zurich in 2024.

Vincent Boy Kars graduated from the AKV|St.Joost in 2015 with My First Porn Film. Kars then focused on his millennial trilogy, which started with Independent Boy (2017), followed by Drama Girl (2020) and ended with Future Me (2024). Each part focuses on a millennial whose search for identity and the associated problems are exposed and examined in a matching cinematic construct. In this film he blurs the boundaries between documentary and feature film, while at the same time sharpening them.

about the Vrijplaats Residency

The Free Place is a free work and thinking space where film and AV professionals can conduct research to deepen their professional practice. They do this both by following a joint program and by conducting their own research. FilmForward’s sixth Free Place is all about hybrid fiction/non-fiction.

The ‘Vrijplaats Hybrid‘ will start in May 2024 and is organized by FilmForward in collaboration with IDFA.

practical information

Are you interested? Register via the registration form (see button at the top of the page)

Date: Tuesday, June 11
Time: 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: MACA, Amsterdam
Costs: €12.50 incl. VAT
Language: Dutch