IFFR and WORM launch Movie Orgy, a monthly screening series

International Film Festival Rotterdam

PRESS RELEASE 8 May 2012

IFFR and WORM launch Movie Orgy, a monthly screening series

Taking its name from a 1968 seven-hour-long compilation of movie clips, commercials, and film trailers assembled by Joe Dante, Movie Orgy is a monthly carte blanche screening series at WORM featuring additions, corrections and inspirations from International Film Festival Rotterdam programmers. Thursday 10 May, festival programmer Gertjan Zuilhof kicks off at 20.30 hours at WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71 in Rotterdam.

Thursday 10 May 2012 the first Movie Orgy is titled ‘Nairobi Notes and Other Tall Tales’. Gertjan Zuilhof screens and introduces a selection of rarely shown gems and musical surprises by Edwin, the Indonesian filmmaker whose works have been supported by the IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund and CineMart.

Edwin’s feature debut and Hivos Tiger Award contender BLIND PIG WHO WANTS TO FLY (2008) was awarded the international film critics’ FIPRESCI Prize in Rotterdam and his second feature film, POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO (2012) premiered recently at the Berlin International Film Festival. Edwin’s feature length and short films successfully screen at many film festivals around the world.

The choice of festival programmer Gertjan Zuilhof, who will co-present the Movie Orgy evening programme this Thursday at WORM with Edwin himself, is inspired by their time shared in Kenya during the filming of Edwin’s NAIROBI NOTES, produced especially for and screened during IFFR’s 2010 Signals programme ‘Where is Africa’.
In the words of Gertjan Zuilhof, ‘Edwin is the most surrealistic and fantastic of the young and golden generation of South East Asian filmmakers and we want to find out where all this fantasy is coming from.’

The second screening in the series, taking place on Tuesday June 12th, will feature festival programmer Gerwin Tamsma who has chosen Gonçalo Tocha's E NA TERRA NAO E NA LUA (IT’S THE EARTH NOT THE MOON, Portugal, 2011), a 180-minute epic recently crowned at the Locarno, Buenos Aires and San Francisco film festivals.

Movie Orgy is an initiative of Peter Taylor who as well being film programmer at WORM, is a member of IFFR’s selection committee for short film. Just recently moved to a new location in the centre of Rotterdam, WORM’s cinema features one of the Netherlands’ most distinctive film programmes with screenings over the next few weeks including the Dutch premiere of Turner Prize Nominee Luke Fowler’s ALL DIVIDED SELVES (2012), and visits from Sylvain George and Michael Robinson - film-makers who were both also included in IFFR’s 2012 programme.

Check the WORM website (www.worm.org) for the upcoming Movie Orgy dates and programmes. Entrance: 5 Euro.

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