Film Festival: Northern Light - David Lammers
04-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
05-03-2008 / 15:00
Merlin
The story about a father and son, set against the background of North Amsterdam. Lucien runs a boxing training centre and lives for the training of his young pupils. He is a well-known figure in North Amsterdam. A tragic accident in the past has hardened him. Mitchel, Lucien’s 15-year-old son, is much quieter than his father and finds it less of a problem to appear vulnerable; much to his father’s annoyance. Mitchel confronts his father with his behaviour during a birthday party. Lucien blows his fuses and physically attacks Mitchel, then withdraws in his boxing centre. He talks less and less, becomes introverted and lonely. In the meantime, Mitchel becomes independent, and no longer needs his father’s support. By facing up to what he has done, Lucien finally even dares to return to his son.
Film Festival: Between Heaven and Earth - Frank van den Engel, Masha Novikova
03-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
04-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin
In Uzbekistan, the circus is as alive as it was during the existence of the ancient Silk Road from Europe to China. The film tells the story of two families where traveling circus became a way of life. Achat and Tarsun, childhood friends, are now in their late fifties. At the age of seven both became apprentices to the tightrope walker who came to their village. They both joined the opposition party ERK, meaning ‘freedom’ in Uzbek. Achat develops into a fully-fledged activist, while Tarsun rises to the vice-chairmanship of the party. One year after Uzbekistan’s independence all opposition parties are outlawed and ERK goes underground. Both men in their own way struggle with the choices they have had to make for themselves, for their friendship and for their loved ones.
Wewilllivestorm
Benjamin Verdonck - Toneelhuis
04-03-2008 - 05-03-2008 / 19:00
Merlin
“My father and I are on the stage.
My friend, the musician, is standing to the side.
There’s much pottering, someone’s moving strings.
There’s no speech.
There’s no story, either.
And there’s almost no music.”
Dutch-Flemish Film Festival
01-03-2008 - 12-03-2008
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
01-03-2008 - 12-03-2008
Merlin
From absurd comedy to historical parable, from thrillers to drama, the programme of the Dutch–Flemish Film Festival offers a variety of genres and topics. The latest films of the two regions will be shown: seven Dutch and six Flemish feature films, plus five documentaries. The opening film will be the Dutch–Flemish production Waiter (Ober), screened on 29 February 2008 at the Uránia Film Theatre. The rest of the festival will be hosted by the Örökmozgó Film Museum from 1–12 March 2008.
Annemiek de Beer and Maurice van Tellingen
Annemiek de Beer, Maurice van Tellingen
29-02-2008 - 29-03-2008
Deák Erika Gallery
Opening: 28 February, 2008, 18.00-20.00
Interiors make for one of the core themes of the work of Maurice van Tellingen, interiors that usually manifest themselves in the form of a small looking box. Van Tellingen refers to these items as spatial paintings, and the comparison with seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is obvious—it places him in a long tradition of artists that have represented interior scenes in the Netherlands.
De Beer follows a unique path in regards to colour and structure as well, using withdrawn, fixed schemes that nevertheless have a fresh, silky character. Gradually becoming visible in her work is an interest in the traditions of Japanese painting, with its linear and structural clarity and, above all, its elegant simplicity.
Two Dutch Photographers
Bertien van Manen: Give me your image, Hans van der Meer: European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football
22-02-2008 - 06-04-2008
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
Hans van der Meer and Bertien van Manen are both in the vanguard of contemporary Dutch photography. The exhibition in the Ludwig Museum presents their work in one space, thus offering wider opportunities comparison of two independent artists in the light of one another.
Trains with Children - An Exhibition of Documents
22-02-2008 - 14-03-2008
Central Library of the Municipal Szabó Ervin Library, Small Gallery
Opening: 22 February, 3 p.m.
After World War I, trains carried over 50,000 weak and hungry children from Hungary to the Netherlands and Belgium. Responding to the call of the churches, thousands of Dutch and Flemish families temporarily accepted into their homes young girls or boys orphaned or destitute in war-ravaged Hungary. Children normally spent four or five months with their foster parents, but a two or three-year stay was not uncommon, and a number of them were eventually adopted. The decades to come showed the children to be better than the diplomats at maintaining these international contacts.
Visibility Works workshop
Inga Zimprich, Katarina Zdjelar, Marjolijn Dijkman, Metahaven (Daniel van der Velden, Gon Zifroni, Vinca Kruk)
21-02-2008 - 13-03-2008
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall
Opening: 20 February, 19.00
The aim of the program 'Visibility Works', hosted by the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, is to encourage students, professors and the general public to think aloud and work together. The exhibition and workshop series will be held in the exhibition space of the university, which will be transformed into a meeting point, a classroom, a professors' study, a studio and an office for the occasion.
Biking Around the World (My City: Amsterdam)
Herb van Drongelen
19-02-2008 - 16-03-2008
Millenáris red and black Gallery
Opening: 18 February, 17.30
My City Amsterdam, one half of a cultural exchange program between Budapest and Amsterdam. During the three-day event, Amsterdam will present itself to the city of Budapest with a musical program, photo exhibitions, readings and lectures.
Herb van Drongelen, who in six years cycled 110,000 kilometers through 69 countries on 6 continents will exhibit the photos of his journey on Millenáris and speak about his experiences on the A38 Ship.
Wim Delvoye
16-02-2008 - 23-03-2008
Ernst Museum
Love it or hate it: Wim Delvoye, enfant terrible of the contemporary scene, makes art that demands notice. His provocative works, which make emphatic use of antagonisms, flout conventions and dogmas. His raw honesty and grotesque humour will make you laugh and wonder.
Pages - a new generation of photobooks from the Netherlands
13-02-2008 - 08-03-2008
Dorottya Gallery, Lumen Gallery
Finissage: 8 March, 6 p.m. Dorottya Gallery, 8 p.m. Lumen Gallery
The goal of the Pages exhibition is to provide a unique picture of the wide range of Dutch photo books and journals published in the past five years, and to give an idea of the relationship of young Dutch photographers to the book as a medium.
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