The oldest International Student Film Festival in the world pops up once again! To warm-up the Amsterdam crowd of film lovers for the coming of Cinestud, we’ll host another evening of student film in Galerie Schijnheilig on the 11th of March.
This night’s films will be a bit gay.
Program starts at 20.30h with an English introduction.
More information on: www.cinestud.nl.
Een kleine impressie van de opening van de expositie Portrait, afgelopen vrijdag 5 maart.
Sunday night is our movie night. This time we will show selections of La Commune by Peter Watkins (2000), including an English introduction.
From March through May 1871 the city of Paris was ruled by the working class. The national government was expelled from the city, and Paris was ruled by a large number of ‘communes’ and ‘assemblies’, in which the process of decision making was reformed in an egalitarian manner. A people’s army was formed (the National Guard), numerous magazines were created, in which workers could express their experiences, feminist initiatives were developed, and many attempts were planned to reform society in an anarcho-socialist manner. This radical experiment gave rise to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels predicting that the Commune was only the first sign of the advent of the Revolution. The Commune was, according to Marx and Engels, an alternative to the nation-state, in which the people were directly involved in the governing of their society. However, the failures of the Commune, and its resulting tragic end, creates serious questions about the consequences of such radical revolutions.
In his film about the Commune, Watkins chose an unorthodox way of representing what happened: largely built up out of citations from actual publications written during the Paris Commune, the events are narrated by non-professional actors, in fact, actors who, in real-life, are as close as possible to the contemporary repressed class of society. The actors participated in writing and selecting their own lines for the movie, in order to create a bridge between 1871 and the present. This connection of the historical events with contemporary society is also highlighted by the reflections on the role of the media: a fictional television network “Commune TV” covers events and frequently points to both the film’s own artificial character, as well as to the role of the media in contemporary society. In one scene, Commune TV interviews a journalist:
So you’re completely fictitious?
Completely!
I’m in this film as a witness to the role of the press in this revolutionary process.
The film’s length, in total, is more than 6 hours. We have taken the horrible and barbarous decision to show a selection of scenes from this film, lasting about two hours. In the introduction to the film, we will try to give some historical background to the Paris Commune, as well as a defense of the selection of scenes. Afterwards, the audience can voice its complaints by either demanding more footage, or suggesting an alternative date on which we can screen the whole film.
Want to see original visions on what a portrait may be? Come to our opening on the 5th of march! With drawings, prints, work in progress, guerilla art, movies and live portrait performances.
Work from Douwe Mulder, John Treffer & Marieke van der Sloot, Peter Tromp, Floris Solleveld, Niels de Groot, Freek, Maaike Schippefelt and Mara Joustra
Opening Friday 5th of March 19:00-0:00
Gallery Schijnheilig, Passeerdersgracht 23
Regular opening hours fri, sat, sun from 14:00-19:00
Lijst Blanco biedt blanco stemmers de mogelijkheid om samen op 3 maart de verkiezingsuitslagen te bekijken. Daarom organiseert Lijst Blanco een verkiezingsfeest. Discussieer mee met politici, activisten, kandidaat-raadsleden, filosofen, kunstenaars en andere eigenwijze burgers over het nut of juist het gevaar van blanco stemmen. Klim op een aardappelkistje en geef in vijf minuten een vlammend politiek betoog! Natuurlijk zijn de verkiezingsuitslagen te volgen via de aanwezige tv’s en er zal in de discussies ook direct commentaar op de uitslagen geleverd worden. Er treden bandjes op en er zijn hapjes en drankjes.
Programma:
20.00 Zaal open.
20.30-20:45 Debat over de staat van de vertegenwoordigende democratie vandaag met onder andere: Herman van Gunsteren, Paula van Dijnen en Tamira Combrink.
21:30-22:15 Muziek door 06 Zinkbuis.
22:15-23:00 Debat over (a)politieke alternatieven voor vertegen-woordigende democratie met onder andere: Thomas Berghuijs, Rodrigo Fernandez en Kriss Sol.
23:00- 01:00 Dansen bij muziek van DJ Conrad, onderbroken door politieke performances van onder andere Simon de Boer.
Toegang: gratis.
De bundelpresentatie van Daan Doesborgh vindt plaats om 14:00 (en niet in de avond zoals vermeld staat op onze poster).
De Venus Suikerspin is Daan Doesborghs tweede bundel. Na De Reeds Beweende Liefdes van Daan Doesborgh verschijnt nu bij uitgeverij de Contrabas een iets lijvigere bundel: 36 gedichten.
De bundel werd vormgegeven door Baer Cornet.
Op de presentatie zullen voordrachten te horen zijn van onder andere Arnoud Rigter, Pom Wolff, Ellen Deckwitz, Jelle Timmermans en Simon Mulder. Ook is er een muzikaal optreden door Winterjong.
De bundel (prijs €12,50) zal op deze middag ook te koop zijn.
