Amsterdam via Amsterdam is a road movie to the Northern and Southern extremities of the world. From the Dutch capital towards two homonymous islands. One is integrated in the French Austral and Antarctic Lands, the other is part of the Norwegian Spitsberg archipelago, in the glacial Arctic Ocean. Two film-makers, Rob Rombout and Rogier van Eyck, followed the footsteps of two illustrious 16th-century Dutch navigators: Willem Barentsz and Cornelis de Houtman who left Amsterdam to open the routes to the spices islands. From Amsterdam to Amsterdam, the two contemporary film-makers’ cinematographic expedition was of completely different nature, although their mid-life uncertainties equalled the temerity of the adventurers from the distant past. What emerges from this road-movie made up of successive encounters is a portrait of Amsterdam in the form of a triptych. From the city to the islands, the film sketches a new geography of Amsterdam that unites the space of the voyage with the reality of the three places. In a visual process fo toing and froing: Amsterdam via Amsterdam.