Tilda Swinton headlines Eye Filmmuseum’s 2025 exhibition calendar
Eye announces 2025 exhibitions and film programmes
In the autumn of 2025, the British actor Tilda Swinton creates a unique exhibition, specially for Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, focusing on her creative collaborations with directors such as Derek Jarman, Pedro Almodóvar and Joanna Hogg. Early in the year, Eye hosts an exhibition about Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, followed by a summer exhibition devoted to the US artist and filmmaker Garrett Bradley, winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize. Additionally, Eye presents film programmes dedicated to Akira Kurosawa, the Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien, Columbia Pictures film studio, and a selection of new virtual reality works.
Tilda Swinton (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)
From 26 September 2025
For Eye, the iconic British actor Tilda Swinton is making an exclusive, immersive exhibition featuring new works. This exhibition will explore her autobiography, using as a starting point the artistic collaborations that have been integral to her career. Swinton pushes the boundaries of the sometimes limited role of the actor, inviting visitors on a sensory journey that celebrates co-creation, the synergy between director and actor, and the influence of various art forms. This project pays tribute to the spirit of ‘renewal through connectivity’ that has defined Swinton’s remarkable career.
The Eye cinemas will screen a selection of short and feature-length films in which Swinton plays a leading role. Additionally, the programme will reexamine the work of Derek Jarman, who was pivotal to Swinton’s artistic development, and Joanna Hogg, a childhood friend with whom she has recently collaborated. The selection will also include masterclasses and ‘Eye on Art’ performances exploring her collaborations with Derek Jarman, Pedro Almodóvar and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, focusing on the dynamic between actor and director in collective artistic processes.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
17 January – 1 June 2025
The new year opens with the first Dutch exhibition dedicated to celebrated Turkish filmmaker and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Eye will bring together Ceylan’s award-winning films and his landscape photography on Cinemascope format. Ceylan began his career as a photographer, and that background is clearly evident in the attention to composition, light and detail that define his filmmaking style.
The accompanying film programme will screen all nine of Ceylan’s feature films, including Winter Sleep, the Palme d’Or winner, many of which will be shown on 35mm from Eye collection. The programme will also include special events featuring Turkish-Dutch cultural figures reflecting on Ceylan’s work and screenings of films that have inspired him.
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Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien
6 – 26 March 2025
Feministisch Filmkollektief Cinemien (Feminist Film Collective) was founded in 1975. The organisation played a pioneering role in advocating for gender equality in cinema and beyond, evolving into a leading international distributor of feminist films. Childcare, abortion, the sharing of household tasks and equal pay for doing equal work: the film pioneers of the previous feminist wave put all these themes on the agenda, where they have remained.
The Eye programme will include films by women from the Global South, classics by female directors, such as Jane Campion, as well as gay and lesbian films like Desert Hearts. It will also focus on ongoing relevant themes such as abortion, #MeToo, body positivity, gender roles, and queerness. During a series of specials with introductions, lectures and post-screening discussions, Eye will link today's feminism with that of the Cinemien era. The films from the Cinemien collection can also be seen on the Eye Film Player during this period.
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Summer programme: Akira Kurosawa
July – August 2025
Spring 2025 will see the release of Spike Lee’s remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, starring Denzel Washington. Few filmmakers have had as significant and enduring an influence on global cinema as Kurosawa, who introduced Japanese film to the West in 1951 with Rashomon, a prize-winner at the Venice Film Festival. The dialogue between East and West forms the central theme of this Eye programme, which will see the work of Kurosawa on the screen in the Netherlands again after more than 25 years, with restorations of his best-known films (including Seven Samurai, High and Lowand Yojimbo) and complemented by introductions and screenings of films by directors who have been inspired by his work.
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Eye International Conference / Still Uit het rijk der kristallen (J.C. Mol, NL 1927)
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Talent development
Year-round
The third generation of Programmers of the Future has begun, featuring trainee film programmers Kato van der Speeten, Alicia Abieyuwa Bergamelli and Humie Pourseyf. They will present their final programmes at Eye in July 2025.
The MovieZone talent development programme will kick off in January 2025 and host events throughout the year. They include KinoTalk, a regular evening where prominent filmmakers, writers, artists and musicians present their favourite film to a young audience and discuss their choices. Social Club is aimed at youths who want to develop skills in creating video campaigns, guided by experts from the film industry. Talentscreening is an initiative that allows young people to curate their own film evenings at Eye, under the supervision of experienced professionals.
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Eye International Conference
25 – 28 May 2025
The theme of the 2025 Eye International Conference is ‘The Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, and Archives’. This is a continuation of the ‘Colour Fantastic’ theme first explored in the 2015 edition, where the conference concentrated on silent film alone. In 2025, the conference will broaden its focus to the global study of colour use in film, spanning the silent era to modern cinema. Speakers from all around the world will present research on the challenges and opportunities of studying colour in film, with a particular emphasis on underrepresented geographic regions. This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, the annual public lecture series (spring 2025), will align with the conference theme to further explore this subject.
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