The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off today and with that kick off come many special events. Among them: Size Matters, the projecting of a series of films on several sky scrapers and buildings of importance around Rotterdam. The films are old black and white films and are being played on huge screens that are visible from very far away.

The production is entitled Urban Screens, and seeks to explore the place that screens have in public life. Actually it seeks to do alot more than that, but of course its really about how it effects the individual watching the screens.

One woman on the local evening news commented that growing up she used to stare at the giant Robeco sky scraper imagining what could be done on such a large surface. Maybe she was a spiderman fan, who knows.

The film festival is going from today until February 1st. Tomorrow I'll get into some possible highlights and suggestions of what you can catch if you make it over to Rotterdam in the coming weeks.