Dear friends,

I would be happy to see you at the film program I compiled for Unfair, coming Thursday at the NDSM werf in Amsterdam.

Best

Anna

ON THE EDGE

18 SEPT. 19:00H - SCHEEPSBOUWLOODS NDSM WERF AMSTERDAM

free entrance

For the side program of Unfair, Anna Hoetjes selected experimental and documentary films from the collection of the EYE Filmmuseum and elsewhere. The films portray the periphery of the city, focussing on Amsterdam Noord and the harbor. This program shows work by contemporary makers in the Netherlands, next to work by a generation of young filmmakers in Amsterdam in the 70ies. They provide a poetic and aesthetic view on the edge of the city, but also bring us their critical and socially engaged perspective. Labour, architecture and love are balancing on the edge of the city and of society.

PROGRAM 

NATION FOR TWO, 2012 (ON PERMANENT DISPLAY)

BY: CHAJA HERTOG & NIR NADLER

PRODUCER: FAMILY AFFAIRS

This poetic and photographic short film shows the subterranean journey of a man and a woman, tunneling their way towards each other, through national barriers, ruins, grand landscapes and harbours.

AMSTERDAMS STADSJOURNAAL 20 – SCHEEPSBOUW, 1978

BY: FLOOR KOOIJ

A political portrait of the workers at the NDSM dock. As the last ship is built in these docks, the filmmakers asks the employees how they feel about the end of this era. Here Unfair's venue 'the Scheepsbouwloods' is still lighting up with welding flames and metal. 'Amsterdams Stadsjournaal' was a collective of young filmmakers, that used the medium to convey their political ideals.

A CHRONICLE OF PLAN VAN GOOL, 2014

BY: YUNJOO KWAK

A video essay, developed during a conversation with the architect Endry van Velzen, regarding his text 'Over vanzelfsprekendheid, de 1138 van Gool in Amsterdam Noord'. It portrays the flats next to the Buikslotermeerplein and deeply examines the aesthetical, political and economical thoughts behind these flats, that were built in the late 60ies.

HORS D'OEUVRE, 1978

BY: RUUD MONSTER & ALIE WIERING

Short films that were shot on the edges of Amsterdam. They turn everyday events into sensitive, poetic and sometimes absurd intermezzo's.

DE ZONE, 1999

BY: BEN VAN LIESHOUT

A precisely framed and very visual film, that provides a oppressing and shocking perspective on the Dutch phenomenon of 'de afwerkplek'. The regulated street prostitution area at the 'Theemsweg' that is portrayed in this film, closed down in 2004.

http://www.unfairamsterdam.nl/en

ANNA HOETJES (1984) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Dutch Art Institute. Besides her practise as a video and performance artist, she works at the archives of media art and film institutes, like the NIMk (LI-MA), Impakt Festival and currently at EYE.

This program has been made possible by EYE Filmmuseum and the generous support of Beamsystems BV.