Platform for experimental and anthropological film,
sound, and landscape cinema.
sound, and landscape cinema.
About
We host an annual three-day long festival in WORM Rotterdam, as well as organising activities throughout the year.
The name Field Recordings is taken from a certain method of working with images and sounds ‘in the field’ and in attunement to one's surroundings. With this methodology as a connecting thread, we present works that touch on cultural and environmental phenomena, asking questions about the relationship between humans, non-humans and the places in which they dwell.
The festival presents works coming from the fields of art, cinema, sound and audiovisual anthropology. Our programme aims to reflect the dialogue and overlaps between these disciplines, which have grown closer together in recent decades, borrowing methodologies from each other and complicating categorisation in the process.
Field Recordings embraces films of all formats and runtimes. We present a wide variety of works, from experiments and debuts to works by established artists, and from recent productions to historical, underrepresented films. We also organise deep listening sessions, discussions and live sound performances.
We pay significant attention to filmmakers’ working methods, and to developing relationships of mutual support among like-minded practitioners.
Field Recordings is programmed by Tim Leyendekker and Marta Hryniuk and was founded by Tim Leyendekker and Sander Hölsgens.
Tim Leyendekker
Tim Leyendekker is a filmmaker based between Rotterdam and Strasbourg. He received an MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. His films usually contain a palpable trace of its creation process, engaging the viewer to critically relate to the construction of the work itself. Leyendekker's work has been shown both at film festivals and in art institutions with presentations at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Power Plant (Toronto), MoMA (New York), and Berwick Media Arts Festival, among others. Leyendekker also works as a producer for the work of other artists and heads the film screening program at WORM, Rotterdam.
Marta Hryniuk
Marta Hryniuk is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Rotterdam. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Poznań, Academy of Art in Szczecin, and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her works bridge documentary film, artists’ moving image and installation. She works in a long-term collaboration with Nick Thomas. Since 2019, they have been increasingly involved in Ukraine, making films and engaging in volunteer humanitarian efforts, an ongoing relationship which shapes their current artistic output. She is co-founder of WET, a Rotterdam-based collective for production and presentation of moving image work. She co-run Silverado (2013–17) and is currently a member of Filmwerkplaats.
Sander Holsgens
Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is a co-director of Pushing Boarders, a platform and international conference tracing the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. Between 2018 and 2023, Sander co-curated Field Recordings at WORM, Rotterdam. Together with Miriam Waltz and Mandy de Wilde, he currently runs the research project "Tracing pollution: practicing the anthropology of the more-than-human" (2023–2029). Sander is the author of "Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography" (2021) and “Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces” (2024).