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Tearsheet: Daily Tiger – IFFR

Festival paper The Daily Tiger of the International Film Festival Rotterdam features in this years edition a two-page interview. With a picture over the spread. Here some examples of what i made.

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Tearsheet Daily Tiger - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR

Aki Kaurismäki by Bram Belloni for Daily Tiger - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012

Tearsheet Daily Tiger - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR (Bram Belloni)

Ruben Öslund by Bram Belloni for Daily Tiger - International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012


Visual Diary #013 – IFFR Portraits

With the International Film Festival Rotterdam still in full swing, a small selection of portraits i shot last week for the festival.

The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 02 February 2012. The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Portrait Albert Serra, director Spanish feature film Els noms de Crist (The Names of Christ), in the Spectrum programme. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR

Albert Serra, director Els noms de Crist
February 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR

The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 01 February 2012. The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Portrait Mia Hansen-Løve, director France feature film Un amour de jeunesse (Goodbye First Love), in the Spectrum programme. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR

Mia Hansen-Løve, director Un amour de jeunesse
February 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR

The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 31 January 2012. The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Portrait Oskar Thor Axelsson, director Icelandic feature film Black's Game, in the Tiger Award Competition. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR (Bram Belloni)

Óskar Thór Axelsson, director Black's Game
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR

The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 29 January 2012. The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Portrait Orhan Eskikoy (left) and Zeynel Dogan, director Turkish (co-production) feature film Voice of My Father, in the Tiger Awards Competition. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR (Bram Belloni)

Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan, directors Voice of My Father
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR


The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 28 January 2012. Portrait Vasily Sigarev, director Russian feature film Living and in de 2012 Tiger Awards Competition. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR (Bram Belloni)

Vasily Sigarev, director Living
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR


The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 29 January 2012. The International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012. Portrait Simon Pummell, director and visual artist, in the Spectrum programme. Photo: Bram Belloni for IFFR (Bram Belloni)

Simon Pummell, director and visual artist
January 2012, Bram Belloni for IFFR

> more on: the International Film Festival Rotterdam website


Visual Diary #012 – Dam Square in Moving Pictures

For some time now, i am working with moving pictures. Although most still experiments, i do not want to withhold this particular beautiful combination of the city of Amsterdam, mist and street singers.

Please see link for HD version down below.

Chasing Cars – Amsterdam Snapshots
2011, by Bram Belloni

Song is Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, performed by unknown artists.

> see Chasing Cars | amsterdam snapshots in HD


Visual Diary #011 – Production Video Morocco

For the I Am Gay and Muslim documentary i am traveling Morocco as photographer and cameraman. See what we do (sorry dutch only):

> More production diaries at Stichting art.1 YouTube channel
> Follow the project on Facebook: I Am Gay And Muslim Project Page
> About the production: Stichting art.1


Visual Diary #010 – Moroccan Street Art

Seen in Medina of Asilah, Morocco. Spray my wall too!

Morocco, Asilah, 12 December 2011. Street art Asilah Medina. Photo: Bram Belloni / (c) 2011, www.belloni.nl (Bram Belloni)

Street art Asilah Medina. Credits to the (unknown) artist.
December 2011

> Click for biggie


Morocco, Part Deux

Morocco, Rabat, 6 november 2011. Impression Rabat. Photo: Bram Belloni - www.belloni.nl (Bram Belloni)

Impression Rabat, Morocco
november 2011

For dutch foundation Stichting Art. 1, i went first half of November to Morocco for a photo series of young gays in a Muslim country. This series of portraits is an addition to the documentary I am Gay and Muslim, produced by Stichting Art. 1.

With the first results in, the making of the series will continue in the second half of December 2011. Casablanca, Tangier, Al Hoceima, Nador, Rabat; Morocco field trip!


Visual Diary #009 – IDFA

Present at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; Jason Baldwin, one of the West Memphis 3 and depicted over an 18 year span in the documentary series Paradise Lost by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.

The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 23 November 2011. The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2011. Portrait Jason Baldwin (middle), in documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, by director Joe Berlinger (right, co-director). Photo: Bram Belloni / (c) 2011, www.belloni.nl (Bram Belloni)

Jason Baldwin (middle), with Joe Berlinger, co-director Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2011 Bram Belloni for IDFA

> more about Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory on Radical Media


Visual Diary #008 – IDFA

Meanwhile at IDFA.

The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 22 November 2011. The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2011. Portrait Kevin Allison, host of Risk Show, in the IDFA DocLab programme. Foto: Bram Belloni / (c) 2011, www.belloni.nl (Bram Belloni)

Kevin Allison, host of the Risk Show
2011, Bram Belloni for IDFA

Kevin Allison, host of the Risk Show and in the IDFA DocLab 2011 programme.