Documentation
Constant Tranzit
2013
Video edit of the opera Constant Tranzit (2013) by Anna Mikhailova. The opera was composed for her Master Music Theater at Codarts and is based on the life of Constant Nieuwenhuys, who worked on his New Babylon project for more than ten years.
Space Circus
2013
Video interview with the metal restorer, Sarah Creange, of the Rijksmuseum after the Ruimtecircus is bought for the new 20th century wing, 2013.
Lamoree en de meesters
2012
An episode about Constant's New Babylon by Jhim Lamoree on Avro Kunstuur, 21 january 2012. Fragment starts at 00:10:10 till 00:13:51.
New New Babylon
2011
By Ali Dur & McKenzie Wark. Music by Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid. A détournement of Constant's New Babylon, translated into the digital, and into New York City. December 27, 2011.
Constant's New Babylon
2011
Video essay for Professor Vossoughian's City Planning class by Matt Torres & Daniel Reinhart. December 18, 2011
Lecture Call the Witness. Campo nomadi: Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp
2011
Video of a lecture by Tom McDonough (art historian, United States) called Campo nomadi: Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp.
Campo nomadi: Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp
2011
Lecture by Tom McDonough on Constant's Design for a Gypsy camp in connection to Arno Mik's larger model of the Design for the Roma paviljon, Call the Witness during the Biennale in Venice, 2011.
Cobra: a Short Animated History
2009
A brief animated history of the avant-garde artist's group CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam). COBRA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret in 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame, Paris. They'd sign their manifesto 'La Cause Était Entendue. They split up in 1951.
Cobra | The Cobra Collection
2009
A selection of historical documentations about Cobra, 5 dvd's with 12 hours and 15 minutes of material. Including the films Cobra, een opstand tegen de orde, De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel en Ik ben er alleen als ik achter mijn doek sta by Jan Vrijman.DVD 2: Karel Appel - Constant Nieuwenhuys
Het Cobra museum
2007
Article on the aquisition of the painting Two Birds by the Cobra museum from the collection of Alain Delon with a 10 min television item Nieuw in Nederland from the art series Kunstuur. December 8, 2007
Uit het atelier
2007
A documentation of Constant's studio at Wittenburg in Amsterdam and the move in 2008 by Jan de Rode with music by Eric Vaarzon Morel.Available in the archive for research purposes.
Constant
2006
News item on the aquisition of the painting Fauna, 1949 by the Cobra museum from the collection of Hans en Alice de Jong with a small item on the television art series Kunstuur.
Amsterdam, broedplaats van de avant-garde
2006
Part 1 of the tv series Onmetelijk Optimisme, a documentary series about artists and their mediators from 1945-1970.
Constant, avant le départ
2005
Constant died in the summer of 2005. Thomas Doebele and Maarten Schmidt filmed the artist during the last months of his life. They followed him and his dog, Tikus, on their daily stroll to the artist's studio, where he finished his last painting Le Piège (The Trap). A personal tale about a great painter in the last months of his life, working on the final details of the horizon of his last painting, 82 min, 2005.
New Babylon de Constant
2005
New Babylon visually captured by Constant's son Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth, 13 min, 2005. Available in archive for research purposes.
Knoeiers Kladders Verlakkers
2005
AVRO Kunst panorama, a series of 13 episodes about art and culture with a new item idea every week. The audience decides throug popular vote which formula will lead to a series. Presentation Nelleke van der Krogt. The first episode is about the history of modern art in the Netherlands with a focus on the difficult start of the artists of CoBrA in Amsterdam in the fourties. An episode suggestion by Eline Timmer and Tom Rooduijn.
Netwerk
2004
Daily news program by the networks EO, KRO and NCRV. Presented by Fons de Poel. Aired till September 3, 2010. Subjects of this episode:1. critisism on Pieter Baan Centrum;2. the opening of the exhibition Constant. Een keuze uit het grafisch oeuvre at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art, February 27 till April 15, 2004-Constant Nieuwenhuys3. domestic abuse of women in Turkey (partly BLOCKED).
De Avonden
2003
Radio program Wim Brands interviews historian Marcel Hummelink about his new book, Apres nous la liberté, about artist Constant Nieuwenhuys. In the first hour of the program. The interview with Marcel Hummelink is in Dutch and starts at: 00:11:59-00:44:00 min