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Depot – Reflecting Boijmans

In 2019, Rotterdam’s famed Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen shuttered for renovations, making way for a radical new shimmering art mecca just down the street. Called the Depot, this ambitious construction — composed of walls of curved mirrored glass — was a shared dream of architect Winy Maas and irreverent museum director Sjarel Ex. It reimagines art exhibition as a gigantic, glorified storage unit, with all of its treasures on view for everyone to see.

Portrait of Olivia de Havilland

Jules Deelder turned 75 on 24 November 2019 and died less than a month later. Shortly before his death, 26 other unique characters from Rotterdam paid homage to him by reading part of his 'Portret van Olivia de Havilland': the epic 891 line poem in which Deelder reminisced about the 1950s.

She Came to Win

Documentary about an unusual music project by vocalist Frédérique Spigt. For two weeks, a mobile recording studio is isolated in a historic house. Together with her musicians, singer Spigt meets a Dutch artist each day with whom she has a profound encounter and argues about singing a duet they wrote together.

The Master and His Pupil

In September 2002 the famous Russian conductor Valery Gergiev gave some master classes in Rotterdam to three young, and talented, but just starting colleagues. Under Gergiev's supervision the three aspiring conductors were asked to conduct the Rotterdam Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in a demanding programme of two works by Scriabin - "Poem of Ecstasy" and "Prometheus".