Benefit voku for Alexanderstraat 3
Monday December 29th 2014, Benefit voku for Alexanderstraat 3 squat. Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm
At Sunday 23rd of November this year the upper floors of Alexanderstraat 3 in Amsterdam were squatted. The apartment floors have been largely destroyed in 2007 and after that the house was basically left to rot and decay. The owner, Dick van de Oudeweetering is a well-known speculator who owns more than 100 houses in Amsterdam, especially in the Pijp area. The squatters want to buy some things for the house to make it more fire safe, and to make living there more comfortable, and also to do more research on this speculator and his business partners.
For more information see their website : http://alexanderstraat3.blogsport.eu
pERVERt cINEMa presents: The Holy Mountain (1973)
Sunday December 28th 2014, pERVERt cINEMa presents: The Holy Mountain, by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973, 114 minutes, with English subtitles). Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
Embodying the sex, drugs, spiritual awakenings and societal unrest of the late 1960s/early 1970S, Jodorowsky’s Mexican-American film Holy Mountain (La Montaña Sagrada) is a suitably bizarre and exquisitely designed trip. The quasi narrative tells of a Christ-like vagrant and six of the world’s most powerful individuals (each representing a planet in the Solar system) for a spiritual pilgrimage through a perverse and unfriendly land. The mission is to find the Holy Mountain and immortality. The film’s symbolic figures and gestures – ranging from birds flying out of bullet holes to reptiles re-enacting the Mexican conquest – make this surreal film one that existed completely outside of traditional filmmaking of the time.
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Movie Night: Life in Loops – A Megacities RMX (2006)
Sunday December 21st 2014, Life in Loops – A Megacities RMX. Directed by Timo Novotny, 2006, 80 minutes, with English subtitles. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
“Radioglaz and the Global City
Glawogger captured the grinding routine of everyday labor and escapism of people on the outskirts of the metropolises New York, Mexico City, Moscow. and Mumbai in his awarded documentary essay Megacities. By finding a film language that not only reflects Zygmunts Bauman’s (1997: 328) assumption of globalization’s force to stratify the world population in globalized wealthy and localized poor, but that also offers an idiosyncratic insight beyond the description of urban peripheries as slums, the filmmaker came close to the poetics of his (aesthetic but not political) role model Dziga Vertov.
However, it was not until 2006 that the Austrian video artist Timo Novotny reviewed the original footage of Megacities in order to rearrange it in the spirit of Dziga Vertov’s radioglaz (3), a film concept and montage policy that counts on the “complex interaction of sound with image’ (Vertov in Hicks 2007: 77). sometimes even favoring the sound as the overriding rhythmizing element over the image. Whereas Megacities tells twelve geographically interspersed but serf-contained stories of survival, Life in Loops breaks them open and uses the audiovisual fragments to paint only five portraits of clandestine ways of living and working in global cities against the backdrop of a filmic contemplation on urban topographies. That way, Life in Loops traces, like Megacities, the conditio humana in relation to glocal subalterntiy, though making use of Vertov’s radioglaz in a more radical way.
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Vulva cupcake workshop
Friday December 19th 2014: Vulva cupcake workshop, 18:30
Vulva cupcake workshop! Why? Cause we need more spaces and ways in which we can explore body parts and have fun meanile! Plus, cupcakes are awesome!
So let’s decorate some vulvas (ehm..vulva cupcakes actually). And then we eat them! This will be done in a body positive, no-shaming, diversity embracing, trans and intersex inclusionary, extremely colorful way.
Vegan cupcakes and decoration stuff will be provided, but feel free to bring some, if you have a particular idea in mind. If you have questions, send an email to joeworkshops [at] squat [dot] net.
Be on time, we only have 40 cupcakes!
Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Deadlock (1970)
Sunday December 14th 2014, Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema by Jeffrey Babcock: Deadlock. Directed by Roland Klick, 1970, 88 minutes, in English. Door opens at 8pm, film begins at 9pm.
Thin on storyline but blistering with atmosphere, this film is clearly European in its sensibilities… its just another one those wonderful, eclectic, bizarre artistic films that were churned out in the 70s. Since it was made the film has gained an enthusiastic cult following, despite the fact that its rarely ever been screened. Deadlock is somewhere
between a spaghetti western, a bleak gangster noir and Antonioni’s Zabriski Point.
The film opens with a scene which already defines its surreal style… in a burning desert landscape a man, sweating and heaving, carries a suitcase and a gun. He’s dusty and worn, and looks like a saint delivering a message. What he has with him of course is a very different story…. leading to a twisted cat and mouse game involving three people in a deserted mining town. Like the early work of Jodorowsky this offbeat German film is a strange, metaphysical gangster fable with a mythological tone. And its also featuring an original soundtrack by the
legendary experimental-progressive rock group CAN.
“DEADLOCK is fantastic. A bizarre, illuminating film.” – Alejandro Jodorowsky […Lees verder]
Workshop: Making Falafel
Sunday December 14th 2014, from 15.00 till 18:00, Workshop: Making Falafel
When falafel is made the traditional way, is indeed a vegan food; it’s a great source of protein for people who have cut meat out of their diet. It’s relatively low in fat and has no cholesterol if you fry it in heart-healthy grapeseed oil. And if you top it with veggies in a pita, it becomes a filling and nourishing meal!
The plan is to make falafel for making 270 balls on Monday afternoon in classical way:
Benefiet voor nieuwe kraakhandleiding
Thursday December 11th 2014, Benefiet voor nieuwe kraakhandleiding, Benefit for the new squatting manual, Volkseten Vegazulu, 7pm
Er komt een nieuwe uitgebreide kraakhandleiding aan! Een kraakhandleding is een handig boekje voor potentiële krakers wat het kraakproces stap voor stap uitlegt en kraken in een brede politieke en maatschappelijke context plaatst. Maar kraken is tegenwoordig toch verboden? Ja klopt, maar wat niet mag… kan nog steeds!
Door huidige wet- en regelgeving en beleid is wonen steeds duurder en ontoegankelijker geworden voor een groter wordende groep in de samenleving. Ook in Amsterdam Oost is dit duidelijk te merken aan sloop en uitverkoop van betaalbare huurwoningen en nog steeds de pan uit stijgende verkoopprijzen waardoor wonen bijna alleen toegankelijk wordt voor mensen met een wat dikke portomonee.
Dus nood breekt wet, kraken is nog steeds een mogelijkheid om op assertieve wijze aan betaalbare woonruimte te komen. Ook geeft kraken de mogelijkheid om ruimte te veroveren voor een niet-commerciële plekken zoals de Joe’s. Het nut en de noodzaak (en de lol) van kraken is daardoor actueel en een goede eigentijdse kraakhandleiding van groot belang.
Zo’n kraakhandleiding uitgeven kost geld, vandaar dit benefiet. Dus komt allen en eet en doneer die handleiding bij elkaar. Gezellig! […Lees verder]
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