Join us in commemorating and celebrating the work of Rob Schröder, visionary documentary filmmaker and graphic designer, co-initiator of the activist design collective Wild Plakken, co-founder the Sandberg Instituut, and tutor at Sandberg Design, Shadow Channel and Resolution. 

Rob supported and inspired many students bringing together the worlds of filmmaking and design. As former students of Rob we invite you to an informal evening of coming together, watching and discussing two of Rob’s films and remembering Rob, as the caring and supportive tutor he has been. 

15.30 Doors open 
15.45 Azawad, The Art of Creating a State, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2015  
17.00 Ouwe Hoeren / Meet the Fokkens, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2011
18.00 Informal after talk with drinks 
18.30 Closing 

The event will be for free. Donations are welcome. All proceeds will go to Syrian Eyes عيون سورية who support Syrian and Palestinian communities with food, essential products and temporary housing in BEIRUT, TRIPOLI and BEKAA. You can donate here.

Rsvp: design@sandberg.nl 

Organised by the Sandberg Instituut in collaboration with W139 and alumni Emirhan Akin, Anja Groten and Juliette Lizotte. 

Azawad, The Art of Creating a State, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2015  

Azawad: The Art of Creating a State offers a unique insight into the everyday struggle of the Kel Tamasheq (Tuareg), Arab, Fula, and Songhai peoples that have joined the liberation movement. Together with artist Jonas Staal and researcher Younes Bouadi, the directors interviewed the movement’s provisional government, commanders, strategists, historians, and artists, who explain their endeavors in the “art of creating a state”—a state that, up until today, has not been recognized by any other state in the world.

Ouwe Hoeren / Meet the Fokkens, Gabrielle Provaas & Rob Schröder, 2011

“In the old days, the local copper would tap on the window if a girl was showing too much ankle, now the girls deal coke from their cubicles.” Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. 

Meet the Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.