"An underground movie for strong characters"

Iedere eerste dinsdag van de maand kiest een van de filmclubleden een onbekende film en en leidt deze in met zijn/haar persoonlijke verhaal. Ook niet-leden zijn van harte welkom!

Elke eerste donderdag van de maand, een avond voor live muziek.
Met deze editie onder andere...

CHIMNEY BROTHERS
THE OSCARS

Dancers...
Katie Duck, Vincent Cacialano, Michael Schumacher + Eileen Standley.

Musicians...
Cor Fuhler [analog synthesizer], Colin McLean [electronics] + Wilbert de Joode [contrabas].

Lights: Ellen Knops
Installation artist: Nico Lootsma

20:00
WILD AT HEART
Directed by David Lynch, USA, 1990

Sailor and Lula are amalgamations of distanciated American iconography. Their horizons are constituted by little more than TV. They think they're wild at heart and their romance sets them off on a post industrial Odyssey.

22:00
BLUE VELVET
Directed by David Lynch, USA, 1986

A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man.

Senses Of Cinema; David Lynch

TONE DIALING
Jorrit Dijkstra sax + electronics
Paul Pallesen guitar + banjo
Steve Heather - percussion

Bas van Koolwijk - image
Christian Toonk - sound

20:00
THE HUMAN MIND
BBC Documentary, UK, 2003

Professor Robert Winston explores all aspects of the human mind - from how we learn, to how we're able to recognise faces and what makes one person "click" with another.

Part 1: GET SMART
What happens in our minds when we learn, remember and have original ideas.

Part 2: PERSONALITY
An exploration of what it is that makes us who we are, uncovering the universal battle we face to master our emotions and control our behaviour.

Part 3: MAKING FRIENDS
An investigation into the extraordinary way that our minds work to allow us to communicate with other people.

The Human Mind homepage

23:00
THE BOY WITH THE INCREDIBLE BRAIN
Discovery Channel Documentary, UK, 2005

Documentary about 26 year-old Daniel Tammet, who they're billing as a "British Rain Man". He learnt how to speak Icelandic in 15 hours, can recite pi to 22514 places, and can tell you the day of the week on any given date in the last 100 years. One of few known savants in the world, Daniel is different because he can explain how he does it, unlike the Raymond Babbitt character played by Dustin Hoffman. Scientists believe he could unlock the door to autism and to memory recall in everyone.

Short choreographies by...
Tineke Veenhof
Anat Elsenberg
Dieter Defurne

Plus Decamarone performers + installations

When the bird flu pandemic hits worldwide and the global economy is destroyed, ten artists flee the chaotic streets of Amsterdam, locking themselves into the old Filmacademie on the Overtoom which they call the Oekolos. Every night, they entertain each other with ten short performances telling stories of love and success and of the evils of the age. But one thing is never mentioned: the intense outside reality of disease, riots, starvation and the bird flu that will probably kill them all. They don't strive for a manifesto or a political message. They speak plainly of their world... one that may be gone forever.

As they enter the building, audiences are welcomed into the alternate reality of the Oekolos. With art installations forming its functional interior, the Oekolos resembles an ecosystem that actively relates the whole space, the performers and the audience to each other. The audience witnesses the performances from within this alternate reality.

Boccaccio's original Decamarone [1351] is a framestory about the plague in medieval Florence. It heralded a new era in Western Europe through its collection of critical and satirical stories told by the independant voices of ten young people who paint a lively and transparent picture of their world. This festival version of the Decamarone, besides giving context to a diverse collection of short performances, sets a stage for contemporary voices to speak.

Performers...
Dorona Alberti, Dominique Brackeva, Vilbjorg Broch, Han Buhrs, Paul Estabrook, Christopher Fuelling, Karl Gillick, Guy Harries, Oscar Jan Hoogland, Line Husa, Makiko Ito, Jonas Kraft, Marek Isleib, Alexandra Manasse, Evelien Meijer, Saskia Meijs, Ton Mulders, Marije Nie, Frank Stolwijk, Pipaluk Supernova, Tina Tarpgaard, David Woolfrey.

Installations...
Catiya Gainor, Karl Gillick, Inatome Kyoko, Kim Laugs, Davide Manzoni, Betsy McCall, Miranda Poel, Leon Spek, Phil Wood.

Curators: Alexandra Manasse, Karl Gillick + Marije Nie

Een varieteit aan theater, film, live muziek, kunst en serieuze zaken iedere volle maan met o.a...

CAMPING

Plus Decamarone performers + installations

20:00
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE
Directed by Brian De Palma, USA, 1974

A musician sells his soul to the devil. A producer is the devil's servant. A female singer is the victim. A baroque collage of inspirations: Music of the 60's/70's, Faust, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Touch of Evil, of Orson Welles, Hitchcock.

22:00
SCARFACE
Directed by Brian De Palma, USA, 1983

An update of the 1932 classic directed by Howard Hawks, Scarface follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. After killing a powerful Cuban figure, Montana and company gain the ability to leave their refugee camps and roam around the U.S. After unsuccessfully trying to make it legitamately in the country, Montana and Ray resort to selling cocaine to dealers around the world. Tony's rise is quick, but as he becomes more powerful, his enemies and his own paranoia begin to plague his empire.

A reSort off InstantMusic event.

N COLLECTIVE: NEW CONSTELLATION #1
Jelte van Andel - bass
Koen Nutters - bass
Bjornar Habbestad - bass processing + flute
Guy Harries - laptop + sampler

20:00
KINGS AND TOYS
Short but great documentary about how grafitti is used to create a personality that commands respect.

20:30
AMERICAN PIMP
Directed by Albert + Allen Hughes, USA, 1999

American Pimp documents the phenomenon of the black urban pimp. From 70's blaxploitation icon to modern day hustler, a series of pimps are analyzed, interviewed, and dicected. Their histories, habits, and practices are all caught on camera providing rare access to this dangerous, unstable industry. Although charismatic, often sympathetic and with undeniable camera appeal, the pimps featured, known as "Rosebud", "Fillmore Slim" and "Bishop Don Magic Juan", prey on women whose physical and emotional histories, fractured family lives and economic circumstances have made them vulnerable. In exchange for what passes as guidance, education, financial assistance, physical love and even friendship, these men, to quote Rosebud, "steal a bitch's mind."

22:30
THE YES MEN
Directed by Dan Ollman, Sarah Price + Chris Smith, USA, 2003

A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization's, and it's mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to represent the organization they politically oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock unwitting audiences with darkly comic satire that highlights the worst aspects of global free trade.
www.theyesmen.org

Experimental electronic music - drones, electroacoustics + microsound.

DIA.CHRO.NA
Drone ambiences based on live granular sampling with an integrated VJ perforance with multimedia artist MvH.

SWERVE
Matthijs Vincent Kouw explores interrelationships of movement and stasis. By juxtaposing drones with more dynamic counterelements, slowly throbbing and enveloping networks of sounds are created, that are as transient as they are persistent in their presence. For this performance Matthijs will collaborate with video artist Daan de Jonge.

DAN ARMSTRONG
Loop artist Dan Armstrong has been working multitimbral guitar loops, performances and compositions based on layered delays and harmonics since the mid 1980's. Recent projects include a series of 4 CDs following experiments with music driven by visual narrative through a calendar year, collaborations with various musicians and performing live and in studio as one of the nefarious Vacuum Boys.

EST(H)/ET(H)ICA
Collective of 3 sound artists [Martin Kloos, Lars Zwanepol + Matthijs Vincent Kouw] and 3 video artists Daan de Jonge, Arlo Laibowitz + Gerald Hemmers] that attempts to create isomorphisms of sound and vision. Persistent cross- fertilizations of these realms are established in a live set which will emphasise improvisation and the intertwining of sight and sound.

Een festival waar ruimte is voor creativiteit en discussie.
Een podium voor muziek, poezie, dans, film, theater, mode, videokunst en experimentele film.

DJ X-O-X [Sushi Sounds / Ruigoord]
Psychedelic electro + funk

DJ Droid [Legendz]
Industrial + dark electro

Danny O'Really [Plastered]
Electric guitars, ampifiers, feedback + noise degeneration

20:00
LE DOULOS
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1962

Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend Silien brings him the needed equipment. But Silien is a police informer...
A movie in which "all characters are two-faced, all characters are false", according to director Jean-Pierre Melville.

22:00
LE SAMOURAI
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1967

Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.

Together Alone: The Outsider Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville

Set 1
Ivo Bol - laptop
Stefan Prins - electronics + objects
Marlon Barrios aka Unstablelandscape - realtime improvised video

Set 2
Steve Heather - drums + laptop
Yannis Kyriakides - laptop
Andy Moor - guitar
Playing music for the Rene Clair film "Crazy Ray"

20:00
TALES FROM THE FAR SIDE [Parts 1 + 2]
Directed by Marv Newland, USA, 1994/1997

A series of Gary Larsen's "Far Side" gags are turned into short animated gags, such as a Frankenstein cow; an insect airline's in-flight movie; deers, hunters, and ufos; wolf home-movies; egg horror flicks; and cowboys + aliens.

22:00
NOISEMAN SOUND INSECT
Directed by Koji Morimoto, Japan, 1997

In a futuristic world, a scientist by the name of Franken makes the mistake of his life by bringing into existence a creature he calls Noiseman. This newly created yellow blob decides to take control of people's minds and forces them to gather Noises, little street-roaming ghosts.

22:00
MIND GAME
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa, Japan, 2004

The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, Nishi journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place. Nishi and some friends attempt to break out of their trap, and discover what it truly means to be alive along the way. This is a mind-bending trip that uses some of the most innovative animation ever created.

A one day exhibition of small works on paper donated by artists. This fundraising event will be an eclectic mixture of art, music, and special surprise acts. The artworks can be purchased for 25 euro, the sale benefits the HTV [formerly "Het Topje Van de IJsberg"].

Live band...
LES BIF-TECS

DJ MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

Dancers: Katie Duck + Alexandra Manasse
Musicians: Andy Moor [guitar] + Colin McLean [electronics]

Plus late night DJ bar with Andy + Colin [dubstep / dancehall stylee].

HIJACKING CATASTROPHE - 9/11, FEAR + THE SELLING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
Directed by Jeremy Earp + Sut Jhally, USA, 2004.

The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved for information. The result is that we have had little detailed debate about the radical turn US policy has taken since 9/11.
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear + the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home.
www.hijackingcatastrophe.org/

THE CRANES ARE FLYING
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR, 1957.

The Cranes are Flying answered the ludicrously romanticised views of war propagated by socialist realism with a healthy dose of expressive realism and inaugurated a wave of refreshingly "grim" anti-war Russian films. The Cranes tells a simple story of budding love shattered by war. Two young lovers, Veronika and Boris, become separated when Boris volunteers for war duty. Lonely and emotionally fragile, Veronika is unable to wait out the war. Boris step-brother Mark, a vain pianist who attained a war exemption on the black market, senses her weakness and takes advantage of her. An implied rape scene is set during an air raid, with the objective onslaught of war used as an expressionistic barometer of Veronikas inner state of mind. Kalatazov pulls out all the stops with chiaroscuro lighting, canted, low angles of Marks crazed face, and a frenzied sound mix of air raid sirens and a piano concerto.

MOHA
Morten J. Olsen drums + electronics
Anders Hana - guitar

RYFYLKE
Sten Ove Toft electronics
Stian Skagen electronics