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Amsterdam Stories USA
Two Dutch filmmakers cross the United States through fifteen towns called Amsterdam, collecting the America that lives between the coasts.
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 4 × 90 min
- Direction
- Rob Rombout, Rogier van Eck
- Countries
- Belgium, Netherlands
- Languages
- English, Dutch
- Production
- Saga Film
- Availability
- Screener on request
Amsterdam Stories USA Leaving New York, which was once Nieuw Amsterdam, Rob Rombout and Rogier van Eck drive west through every American town that shares their city's name. Sheriffs, poets, cowboys, a Vietnam DJ and a civil-rights veteran tell their own stories, in their own time. Over four chapters and six hours, a borrowed name becomes a way into a whole country.
Screenings
6 recorded
2012IDFA, AmsterdamWorld premiere
2013IndieLisboa, LisbonAudience Award, feature film
2017John Adams Institute, AmsterdamEvening with the directors
2022Focus Rob Rombout, Strasbourg (West)Retrospective
2024Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, ParisFocus, Mois du doc
2025Cinemateca Portuguesa, LisbonComplete, in two sessions
Credits
- Direction
- Rob Rombout, Rogier van Eck
- Image
- Ben Wolf
- Sound
- Colin Bannon, Matthew J. Menter, Trevor Cohen
- Editing
- Fanny Roussel, Alice de Matha, Frédéric Dupont
- Music
- Hughes Maréchal
- Production
- Saga Film, Wallonie Image Production, RTBF, Pieter van Huystee Film
- With
- Russell Banks, Adrian Cronauer, Charles Evers, Elinor Tatum, Edgar Oliver, Michael Botwinick, Myron Mixon, Robert Amsterdam
Elsewhere in the work
PhotographyPORTRAITS / on the roadPeople met on the road, photographed where they live and work, in natural light, after the pose has gone.PhotographyAmsterdam StoriesPortraits from the fifteen American towns called Amsterdam, made along the road of the film. 1998 · 80 minAmsterdam via AmsterdamTwo Amsterdammers sail to the Arctic and the Antarctic to look back at their city from the two islands that share its name.2010 · 40 minPanamericaA research film on the road movie as a genre, shot along the roads of Chile and Bolivia.
Cite this pageRombout, Rob, and Rogier van Eck. Amsterdam Stories USA. 2012. https://www.robrombout.com/en/films/2012-amsterdam-stories-usa/. Last verified 10 October 2026.