ATTENTION: 15 days major European operation controls against “illegal” migration.

By: ready - October 1st, 2014  Filed under: Nieuws, Solidarity

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The Council of the European Union is organizing from 13 to October 26, 2014 a major joint operation with the Schengen Member States, Europol and Frontex, called “Mos maiorum”.

All possible migration routes in Europe will be checked in all Schengen States and Europe’s external borders, the objectives being:

– Arrest “illegal” immigrants and gather information in view of investigation
– Identify, hunt and disrupt the organized crime groups
– Consolidate joint actions to prevent “illegal” migration
– Look at the routes used by migrants and migration networks.
– Collect and analyze the information related to secondary movements also

Controls at airports, train stations, ports, borders and other strategic places (train, bus, metro, tram?) will be strengthened without a doubt. So be careful.

Download the multilingual travel warning flyer, print it, distribute it.
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Movie Night: I Love Hooligans + Idiots And Angels

By: ready - September 1st, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday September 14th 2014, Movie night: I love hooligans, an animated short film by Jan-Dirk Bouw (2013, 12min, dutch with english subtitles) and Idiots and Angels, an animated feature film by (2008, 78min, no spoken language). Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

I Love Hooligans

In “I Love Hooligans” we enter the world of a homosexual hooligan who feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, this hooligan has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him. Football is what he lives for, and his sexual orientation and love life have been relegated to the margin. It is a well-kept secret.

Update Fr. 12.09.2014: There might be the chance (not yet 100% confirmed) that Jan-Dirk Bouw is joining us for questions and answers about I Love Hooligans. Really great!

Idiots and Angles

Plympton on what inspired the idea for “Idiots and Angles”…
The core idea of “Idiots and Angels” came to me while I was in France and someone asked me, after seeing “Hair High,” what my next project would be. Off the top of my head, I don’t know where it came from – I blurted out “An asshole guy wakes up one morning with wings on his back, and he doesn’t like it because the wings make him do good things.”
The kid who asked the question thought that was an excellent idea for a film, and after I thought about it, so did I. […Lees verder]

Kurdish movie night – A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, 2000)

By: ready - August 16th, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday August 17th 2014. Kurdish movie night: A Time for Drunken Horses by Bahman Ghobadi, 2000, 85 minutes. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi grew up during the devastating Iran-Iraq War, which killed several of his relatives. After starting out in photography, he began attracting attention in his twenties from his short documentary films about Kurdish life. After serving as Abbas Kiarostami’s assistant director on The Wind Will Carry Us (Bād Mā-ra- Khāhad Bord, 1997), he expanded the theme of one of his short documentary films, Life in Fog, to make his first feature film, A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani Barayé Masti Asbha, 2000). The film, about the harsh circumstances of an impoverished Kurdish family near the Iran-Iraq border where the local economy subsists around the dangerous smuggling trade, was an immediate sensation and multi-award winner, including the FIPRESCI critics prize and the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Kurdish people live mostly in Kurdistan, a mountainous region of the Middle East that covers parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. For them the national boundaries that separate their people are artifacts of past political processes that excluded their participation. But paradoxically these same artificial boundaries that close off free exchange have presented a secondary, though fraught with danger, economic opportunity: smuggling. A Time for Drunken Horses tells the story of an orphaned family trying to survive in these perilous conditions. […Lees verder]

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Movie Night – Heli (2013)

By: ready - August 9th, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday August 10th 2014. Heli by Amat Escalante, 2013, 105 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

Violence as narrative function or, some thoughts on why HELI divides critics

By Niamh Thornton

Foremost in reviews of Heli (Amat Escalante, 2013) is the film’s violence. On its Cannes premiere, negative and positive reviewers alike based their assessment on its ability to convince with its realism, and on whether the torture scene at its centre is justified and/or realistic. Like Escalante’s previous feature film, Los Bastardos (2008), Heli is slow moving. Violence when it happens does so at a pace that appears mundane, sudden, and banal. Like the reviewers, I have just used violence here to mean the explicit enactment of physical brutality by one human on another, the portrayal of which is frequently a controversial field in cinema, but difficult to define or delimit. What makes a violent film is often subjective – that is, what the viewer’s level of tolerance is towards it – and value judgements arise which lay claim to objectivity over whether it appears gratuitous, in other words, superfluous to the plot and thereby lacking narrative function. So, does Heli pass muster?

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Reconstructing Joe’s

By: ready - August 6th, 2014  Filed under: Meeting

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In August we are going to give Joe’s a nice d.i.y. skin peeling subotnik. Come along to repair, paint and construct.

The subotnik weekends in August are on the 09.08/10.08.2014 and 16.08/17.08.2014 and start around noon.

We have some tools and materials, coffee and cigarettes, and we can make some nice food together, so come along and bring your friends and comrades.

See you in Joe’s squatted autonomous social center.

Poster July/August 2014

By: ready - July 30th, 2014  Filed under: Poster archive

A bit delayed but here is the poster for this and next month. It will be printed in the next couple of days and spread around the city. You can already download the poster and the flyer as pdf in small and for printing, cutting and distributing in A4.

joesposter.ready.web

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Benefit Voku – Interference Festival

By: ready - July 30th, 2014  Filed under: Benefiet, Volkseten/Voku

Monday August 4th 2014, Benefit Voku  – Interference Festival, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm.

Interference will be an event held 15th to the 17th of august as a critical approach to technology. It will be a self-organised event surrounding a diversity of topics around technology at the Binnenpret. We’ll be having art installations, discussions on surveillance, ethics, digital currencies, philosophy and much more. Check out the program page for details: https://interference.io/program

However in order to organise this donation-based event, there is need for some initial cash. So we will be offering food and ask for donations at Joe’s Garage on the 4th of august, starting from 19.00.

So come and have a bite and share.

More info on Interference: https://interference.io/

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Movie Night – Pedal (2001)

By: ready - July 30th, 2014  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday August 03rd 2014. Pedal by Peter Sutherland, 2001, 52 minutes. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

In Pedal, Sutherland documents bike messengers competing in the 2005 Cycle Messenger World Championships in New York City. Going straight to the center of this urban subculture, Sutherland serves up compelling portraits of the competitors from dozens of countries, in motion and at ease, checking out each other’s bags, lingering over modifications to bikes and bodies. Between events like sprints, distance racing, and skid contests, Sutherland shows us the riders’ elegant physicality, complex individuality, and unique community that crosses boundaries of race, gender, age, and class. And he doesn’t shy away from the blood and bruises that come part and parcel with the messenger’s life. Sutherland delves deep into the world of the messengers—a world usually seen from the outside—and returns with a dynamic document that evokes the unbridled anarchy and energy of its inhabitants.

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