Psychedelic Film Night: Performance (1970)

By: börek - July 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday July 7th 2013, Psychedelic Film Night: Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, UK, 1970, 105 min.) Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

Performance is an era-defining film, and a dark, sexy portrayal of the Sixties rock ‘n’ roll dream coming to an end. A gangster on the run (James Fox) goes into hiding in the house of a washed-out rock star (Mick Jagger) and his two lovers (Michele Breton and Anita Pallenberg). Identities start to merge as the film descends into a psychedelic orgy of threesomes, madness,hallucinogenic drugs, sadomasochism and good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll. This cult film really does have it all!
Performance was unique in combining two worlds of ‘Swinging’ London: the bohemian debauchery of the West London ‘in-crowd’ with the East End gangster underworld (a ‘performer’ describes both a gangster and a musician, hence the title). Visually and musically exciting, and with star performances from its central characters, the film reveals the darker, rotten layer of Sixties bohemia, as identities merge and disintegrate. It also has a touching fatalism at its core. Turner echoes Nietzsche’s words: ‘Nothing is true. Everything is permitted’ – a perfect description of the dream of Sixties bohemia. If nothing is true, then what’s the point? […Lees verder]

Movie night: The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 30th 2013, Movie night: The Edelweiss Pirates (Niko von Glasow, Germany, 2004, 111 min.) German with English subtitles. Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

The story of two teenage brothers living amid the rubble in bombed-out Cologne in the last days of World War 2. 17 year old non-conformist Karl secretly belongs to a group of friends known as the Edelweiss pirates (named after the tough mountaintop flower). Their skirmishes with Hitler Youth at first resemble boyish games and teenage turf-wars. The working-class roughnecks manage to escape the tightening grip of the Gestapo for a while, daubing anti-war graffiti on walls, helping kids find shelter from unexploded bombs, finding hiding places for a few remaining Jews. […Lees verder]

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 23th 2013, Movie night. Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock. Door open at 20pm, film begin at 21:00

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, UK, 1962, 104 min.) In English with English subtitles!

Directed by Tony Richardson and based on a short story by Alan Sillitoe, this drama movie was the epitome of the “angry young man’ films that came out of England in the 60s. It centers on Colin, a rebellious youth who is sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery. While there he throws himself into becoming a marathon runner and trains himself to become the very best. While running he can forget, at least for a short while, the prison-like conditions that he’s living in. The wonderfully poetic/edgy atmosphere that is created in this movie, the riveting black and white cinematography, and the uncompromising theme of youth rebellion means that this film will never become obsolete…. it still remains as relevant and fresh today as when it was made. You will never see a film with this amount of guts and integrity anywhere today, pure and simple. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 16th 2013, Movie night: No One Knows About Persian Cats -کسی از گربه‌های ایرانی خبر نداره – Directed by Bahman Ghobadi, 2009, 106 minutes. In Farsi with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.

No One Knows About Persian Cats is the fifth feature by awardwinning director Bahman Ghobadi, winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival. Co—written by imprisoned Iranian—American journalist Roxana Saberi, the film is an indictment of cultural repression in Iran’s exciting underground music scene, a powerful cinematic foreshadowing of current protest movements, and a celebration of an entire generation of Iranians striving towards personal and creative freedom. Shot in secret and featuring extraordinary performances by real underground bands, follows a pair of young musicians, recently released from prison, on a mission to take their rock band to Europe. Forbidden by the authorities to play in Iran, they plan their escape abroad with a fast—talking music promoter. Vowing to play one last show before leaving Tehran, their dangerous mission takes them on a free—wheeling journey through the City’s vibrant and diverse underground scene, home to an estimated 2,000 illegal independent bands. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Five Broken Cameras

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday June 9th 2013, Movie night: Five Broken Cameras (documentary from Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, Palestine/Israel, 2011, 90 min.) with English subtitles. Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

His West Bank hometown of Bil’in having turned into a site of weekly civil disobedience and provocative Israeli land development, Palestinian Emad Burnat, a family man, took to documenting the clash, beginning in 2005. Unwittingly, he started calling himself a journalist—isn’t that often how it happens?—and while Burnat’s equipment suffered the brunt of his risk (see title), the results are eye-opening. Sharpened into an adrenalizing narrative by codirector Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras places you squarely in the face of interrogating Israeli soldiers or dangerously close to Humvees being pelted with rocks. Blocky settlements and separation barriers materialize over the years; we come to recognize the main protesters and worry about their safety every time they approach the front lines. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Daisies (1966)

By: börek - June 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday June 2th 2013, Movie night: Daisies (Věra Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1966, 74 min.) Czech with English subtitles. Door open at 8pm, film begin at 9pm.

Daisies (Czech: Sedmikrásky) is a 1966 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film written and directed by Věra Chytilová considered a milestone of the Nová Vlna movement. Made with the support of the state-sponsored film studio, it follows two teenage girls, both named Marie, played by Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová, who engage in strange pranks.

Innovatively filmed, and released two years before the Prague Spring, the film was labeled as “depicting the wanton” by the Czech authorities and banned. Director Chytilová was forbidden to work in her homeland until 1975. The film received the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Prison Images / News from a Personal War

By: börek - May 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond
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Sunday May 26th 2013, Movie night with Prison Images (original title: Gefängnis Bilder, directed by Harun farocki, Germany, 2000, 60min, German with English subtitles). Notes from a Personal War (original title: Notícias de uma Guerra Particular, directed by Kátia Lund and João Moreira Salles, Brazil, 1999, 57min, Portuguese with English subtitles). Door open at 20pm, films begin at 21:00.

“So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime. What does society, as it exists today, know of the process of despair, the poverty, the horrors, the fearful struggle the human soul must pass on its way to crime and degradation.” (emma goldman)

Prisons, courts, police, laws and the negative notion of “crime” are mere social constructs. They are developed by people and institutions (composed of people) that exercise power above others (no matters if in cleptocratic fashion or “authorized” by elections). These constructs are necessary to maintain an arbitrary order that solely aims to protect those with power and their amenities from the powerless. They are necessary to protect private property, and as we can see in present days it is not the property of the powerless that is protected, as those get rather kicked out of their homes en mass. After all these constructs are mandatory to deter people from disposing them altogether on the scrapheap of history, to eventually live and act in solidarity, co-operation and freedom. […Lees verder]

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Movie night: Infamy

By: börek - May 1st, 2013  Filed under: Filmavond

Sunday May 19th 2013, Movie night: Infamy (Doug Pray and Roger Gastman, USA, 2005, 90 min., documentary). Door open at 20pm, film begins at 21:00

Film for anybody interested in street scribbling, doodling and writing. Life looking upon EARSNOT, TLOKO, CLAW, REVOK, JA and GRAFFITI GUERRILA.
Six of the most prolific writers in the last decade explain us why, how and the personal struggle breaking the law with art. “I didn’t want to make another ‘scene-movie’ or a general overview of subculture and its
history. Instead, we’ve set out to create a more hard-hitting, personal portrayal of the pain and joy of being addicted to the only illegal art form there is.” Director Doug Pray said, adding, “These are intensely passionate individuals, they are incredibly talented at destroying surfaces with spray paint, and they don’t like cameras. What more could you ask for in a subject?”. Film night will be hosted by E.C. Iwana, local foreigner and writer. […Lees verder]