As of 2023, Pop Up Cinema has been around for ten years, throughout this decade we've brought our movable movie screen to all kinds of exciting places. On this page we'll summarize the highlights of our past so you get an impression of the things we've done so far.

A yearly event at theatre de Nieuwe Vorst. The zomerfilms are a popular event in Tilburg and almost always completely "sold out". (They're free to attend, but always full) During the summer we show films in the open air in the garden space of the theatre, it is usually a collection of high quality movies from various countries with some broader appeal but also an unique style and subject. For example the Korean film Parasite, the philosphical Manifeso, or the classic Stand by me.

Film for the little ones! Together with Spruit Tilburg we've hosted various movie screenings in libraries in and around Tilburg city. We've kept the prices of these screenings low and accompanied the movies with a conversation with the children about what they've seen and how to judge a film and write a review. 

Cinema in the club! Together with Club Smederij we've hosted various film screenings in their auditorium that's usually used to host dance events. The German-Iraqi documentary Raving Iran in 2018, the drama film Goldie in 2020 and the portrait of modern protestculture Everyday Rebellion in 2019 amongst many others.

Multiple times we've presented the Talent Talks at various locations: bite sized interviews with creatives. A moderator talks about the creative process, the work and the life of multiple makers that we invite to show their work and inspiration through images and short clips in front of an audience. From citypoet Onias Landveld to singer-songwriter Abee. We've presented these talks in the LocHal and theatre de Nieuwe Vorst. 

For the creators sessions, an event at theatre de Nieuwe Vorst where creators from various disciplines show off a part of their work like a teaser or preview, we've connected the organizers with filmmakers so that film was also represented in the line-up. 

We've done a lot more throughout the years, to see more about our past events you can browse through the Dutch archive on our website. 

What have we done in the past ten years of bringing film to Tilburg?

De Nieuwe Vorst

A cabinet of curiosities on the big screen

A new 'kind of festival' during the Tilburg Fair: the Kouwe Kermis.

From 21 to 30 July, kermis enthusiasts, kermis haters and everything in between can visit theatre de Nieuwe Vorst for a taste of something different. With the inner theatre garden as the heart of the festival, you can enjoy a program full of installations, performances, films, lectures, bands, art and spicy cotton candy for ten days.  

On the 23rd of July Pop Up Cinema presents the Kouwe Kermis Klutsblok during the festival: a short film block with 5 films that will leave you completely confused in a good wat. From animated projects that are visually as spectacular as they are elusive to eerie moving images that surprise you. Do you dare to enter the red salon during the Tilburg Fair? 

The Kermis Klutsblok can be seen continuously for free throughout the day of the Kouwe Kermis Festival. 

The festival heart is accessible daily for free from 2 p.m. More info about the full lineup and tickets will follow. Want to know more about the Kouwe Kermis and the entire festival program? Click here.

This summer, Pop Up Cinema will once again show a selection of quality films in the garden of theater de Nieuwe Vorst. We are busy putting together a wonderful program to treat you to the best, funniest, craziest and most exciting that film has to offer. This year with a new twist. The main film is introduced by a local filmmaker, after we watch one of their own short films.

This year the well-known open-air cinema area of ​​the Nieuwe Vorst will be the stage for an unique film program every Thursday evening in August. The summer films are chosen together with local filmmakers who will present their work and host the evening together with us. This evening you will see the feminist body horror films My Mother the Atom Bomb and Raw.

We start the program as soon as it gets dark around 8:30 pm in the main auditorium of the theatre due to bad weather this evening.

Buying a ticket is not necessary, you can just walk in. Be on time, because full is full and the summer movie nights are always very popular!

Come watch the short film My Mother the Atom Bomb bij filmmaker Nina Noël Raaijmakers and the feature film Raw. 

'Raw' Official Trailer (2016)

Summer films: My Mother the Atom Bomb x Raw

This summer, Pop Up Cinema will once again show a selection of quality films in the garden of theater de Nieuwe Vorst. We are busy putting together a wonderful program to treat you to the best, funniest, craziest and most exciting that film has to offer. This year with a new twist. The main film is introduced by a local filmmaker, after we watch one of their own works. 

This year the well-known open-air cinema area of ​​the Nieuwe Vorst will be the stage for an unique film program every Thursday evening in August. The summer films are chosen together with local filmmakers who will present their work and host the evening together with us. This evening you will see the short film I, Adonis by creator Angelo Raaijmakers and the uncomfortably beautiful alien sci-fi movie Under the Skin

We start the program as soon as it gets dark around 9:30 pm in the courtyard of theater, but you can of course come and have a drink beforehand. In case of bad weather, we will move to the main auditorium, the show will always go on. 

Come watch the short film I, Adonis bij filmmaker Angelo Raaijmakers and the feature film Under the Skin.

Under The Skin | Official Trailer HD | A24

This year the well-known open-air cinema area of ​​the Nieuwe Vorst will be the stage for an unique film program every Thursday evening in August. The summer films are chosen together with local filmmakers. Soon we'll be able to tell you more about the film selection.  n the meantime, put all Thursday evenings in August in your schedule!  

de Nachtzuster

Moonage Daydream - officiële trailer

This is a type of documentary you rarely come across. Competent, qualitative and pleasing to the ear. - Cinema magazine

An unusual music documentary about an unusual celebrity  with a side program with performance band La Piratesse 

Performance band La Piratesse knows more than enough about soaring atmospheres, quality music and exuberant outfits. Creative all-rounder Inez Wolters' group brings you a rich mix of modern classical, to jazz and pop-rock, world music, dance, visuals, fashion design and spoken word. The indicator for a successful performance? As long as it grinds, alienates, cracks open your brain or makes your heart pound it's good. 

Partly influenced by David Bowie's character changes, this band swings mercilessly from poetic to rough and back again. This evening we go from the visual and musical spectacle on screen to that same energy on stage during this film-and-more evening.  

The film and side program will start this evening at 8:00 PM. Want to enjoy the Nachtzuster atmosphere earlier? From 5 p.m. we serve a delicious vegan main course for € 7.50 made by none other than chef Het Buurmeisje. Want to join for dinner? Be on time because we serve dinner as long as supplies last.  

the overarching theme of the collaboration between the Nachtzuster and Pop Up Cinema in 2023 is art. If you organize an event between artistic studio spaces, art is of course unavoidable. A theme that lends itself perfectly to the silver screen. This year, the Pop Up Cinema Foundation, in collaboration with local creators, will provide a series of unique film experiences around the theme of art and creation. 

From documentaries about the eternal search for a 'eureka!' moment in the creative process to animated films painted with love from frame-to-frame. We take you through the camera lens to the world of creation in de Nachtzuster.

La Piratesse trailer

Het Concreet

Noumenon and A Temporal Brace are two short films by Anneroos Goosen and Daniel Cross. A diptych that performs the A and B sides of the album Strangely similar to the original by Het Concreet. On Saturday evening, October 21st, these two short films and the new album will be presented in the studio of Het Concreet in Tilburg. This in combination with an intimate studio session with wild frequencies from musicians Mathijn den Duijf (tape & electronics), Mathijs Leeuwis (tape & electronics), Daniel Cross (drums & bells) and Roberto Pistolesi (drums).  

Noumenon and A Temporal Brace both play with the world of magnetic tape in their own way: an analogue carrier of sound, including magnetic particles and electrical voltages. A world in which the difference between original and copy, and copy of the copy, is blurring and rapidly losing relevance. The films encourage us to surrender to this new reality, which Jean Baudrillard's philosopher sees as a universe 'strangely similar to the original'.  After the film screening, the album will be presented through a live performance. 

It is only possible to buy a ticket for both parts.  

Want to read more about Het Concreet? Click here.

Landpark Assisië

Pop Up Cinema will be located at Landpark Assisië on Saturday, November 25th. Together with performance company Zwermers we will provide an evening-filling program including (short) film.

BABA and NOBU are two short films in a series of three short documentaries created in collaboration with fashion designer Lisa Konno. This trilogy features stylized portraits of migrant fathers in the Netherlands.

Blok and Konno were surprised by how social documentaries are often presented with stern seriousness and realism, by contrast they want to show how aesthetics and humor can also make a meaningful contribution to the genre. They shift the focus from what is told to how it is told because they believe that that’s the area where the documentary genre has the opportunity to differentiate itself from journalism.

Nobu is een gestileerd portret van een lichtvoetige Japanse immigrant die humor brengt in een modefilm en optimisme in het Nederlandse integratiedebat.

Bekijk deze short op ons VOD-platform voor korte films: www.cinetree.nl/kort.

VOD Trailer | Nobu (2018, Lisa Konno & Sarah Blok)

NOBU is a short film about former karate champion and Japanese immigrant Nobuaki Konno. His daughter, fashion designer Lisa Konno, talks to him on camera about their cultural differences. 

In the film he wears a collection of clothes that Lisa made for him, based on his Dutch rain suits and Japanese kimonos. This collection reflects on Dutch and Japanese identity, caricatures, cultural misunderstandings and the hype surrounding Japan. At the same time it sketches an intimate portrait of her father as an immigrant. The designs are based on items from Nobu's closet, such as his old promotional T-shirts, vintage kimonos and his favorite raincoat. NOBU is a film that examines the complexity of migration from the perspective of a migrant who has never experienced it as such.

The short documentary film BABA is a stylized portrait of one of the first Turkish immigrants in the Dutch cultural sector, Ceylan Utlu. Ceylan moved from Turkey to the Netherlands over forty years ago to enrich his left-wing ideology with Western knowledge. After receiving the education he wanted, he wanted to travel back to make himself useful to his own country. His half-Turkish, half-Dutch daughter wonders why things didn't go the way he had planned. In BABA Ceylan is interviewed by his daughter amid a colorful fashion collection inspired by his life. Topics like immigration, integration, relationships and loneliness are discussed during this conversation between father and daughter.

Filmmaker Sarah Blok writes and directs narrative stories, her work mainly features the complexity of our modern society. She focuses on investigating social dynamics and how we as humans navigate them. She often views these themes through the lens of, for example, gender, income, origin and class.

BABA and NOBU are two films in a series of three short documentaries created in collaboration with fashion designer Lisa Konno. This trilogy focuses on the out-of-the-box stories of migrants in the Netherlands.

Sarah's work has been featured at the IFFR, Winterthur Film Festival and the Dutch Design Week and has been shown in the Stedelijk Museum, Rijksmuseum and the Tropenmuseum. 

With Project Baraguda, musician Rob van Barschot immerses you in his new work on the GUDA, a unique drum instrument that can best be described as a hybrid of the tongue drum and the handpan. Earlier this year, Rob played at the medieval fantasy festival Castlefest.

This question was asked to fifteen members of Huis van Vervoering, a creative breeding ground for performing arts for people over 55 in The Hague. The outcome: a group portrait about the versatility of these people, who they are, who they were, and what inhabiting an aging body means for your freedom of expression. Zwermers has been working on the ongoing project Pan~// Catwalk, about clothing and identity, since 2018

Music from the Diaphragm: A selection from the music history of Tilburg

Music lovers Dennis Bernaerts and Joris van Laak delve into the rich history of Tilburg through an unique archive of audio gems from 1930 to 2020. Expect to move your hips with music from throughout the years!

Reserve your place for this evening by sending an email to redactie@zwermers.nl

Keep an eye on our channels for more information about this event. 

Wandering around Assisië

Archive

Noumenon x A Temporal Brace

Moonage Daydream x LaPiratesse

Summer movies #4

Summer movies #3

Summer films: I, Adonis & Under the Skin