Welcome to the Studium Generale Rietveld Academie website! To encourage critical making and thinking, Studium Generale offers a diverse and transdisciplinary programme every year on an urgent theme. Read more about the set-up and structure here.

This website consists of 3 substantive and informative layers that constantly feed each other.

The Programme Overview home page displays announcements of ongoing events and activities, and provides instant access to their live streams when appropriate.

Below the Programme overview is the Archive Picks area, which presents varying selections of older programme contributions, curated by guests or by ourselves. Older contributions can thus regain attention or meaning, or be presented in alternative arrangements.

At the bottom is the Archive. There you will find material from 2011 to the present: part of the video-recorded contributions to the annual conference of Studium Generale and since March 2020 also recordings of events and presentations of the preliminary programmes. The archive is searchable in various ways and offers a chronological overview of previous editions and links to the associated project websites. It also contains announcements and descriptions of previous programme components, which can no longer be relived, but do provide some glances in the histories of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

The purpose of the website is to inform and present what is happening at the moment, but it is also a memory, in which a lot can be found and unexpected encounters can take place.

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N.B. This website is still under construction! Not everything has been completed yet and the search functions in the Archive are not yet fully functional.

Sat, Mar 30, 2019Beamclub TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
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Playing with Magic: A Conversation with Naima Ramos-Chapman and Jayna Brown
Jayna Brown, Naima Ramos-Chapman

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Naima Ramos-Chapman is from Brooklyn, New York. Currently a writer and director on the critically acclaimed HBO series, Random Acts of Flyness, Ramos-Chapman makes stories, stemming from true events, which incorporate magical realism and seek to juxtapose psycho-spiritual realities alongside the brutal mundanities of everyday life. Ramos-Chapman’s first short, AND NOTHING HAPPENED, which explores the psychological aftermath of sexualized violence, premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival and screened at the L.A. Film Festival, BAMcinemafest, Blackstar Film Festival, Rooftop Films, Urbanworld, CinemAfrica in Stockholm, and Tacoma Film Festival where it won Best Director. It is a Vimeo Staff Pick. In 2017, Ramos-Chapman received a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Intensive fellowship for her first feature-length script SAD SONGS IN LANGUAGES I DON’T UNDERSTAND, currently in development. Naima’s second short film, PIU PIU, premiered at Blackstar Film Festival in 2018, won its first award—for best cinematography—at Tacoma Film Festival, and screened at Slamdance Film Festival in 2019. In 2017, Naima received a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Intensive fellowship for her first feature-length script SAD SONGS IN LANGUAGES I DON’T UNDERSTAND, currently in development.

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