scroll down for Dutch film screening Cactus Flower and research conversation with artist / director Hala Elkoussy "Balancing magical realism with wistful drama," this is how Mark Adams characterized the poetic and hopeful debut feature film Cactus Flower of visual artist Hala Elkoussy in the Screen Daily. The film tells [...]
Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, 28 October 2021, Eye 2: 14–16 hrs, screening of Stones Have Laws and book launch of Drifting Studio Practice. Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu a Weti) is an immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining stories of African ancestral traditions and [...]
Book launch Drifting Studio Practice with screening Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu a Weti) Book presentation, film screening and conversations around participatory documentaries with communities, with Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Tolin Alexander, Rehana Ganga, and Olivier Marboeuf, moderated by Vincent Meessen. Bozar, Brussels in collaboration with Jubilée [...]
The Filmhallen, June 30, 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. (Dutch text below) From 2018 to 2020, VRIZA collaborated with Jasper Coppes on the production of his short film Aasivissuit (23 min.), shot in a territory inhabited by Inuit in Greenland. In the film two park rangers explore glaciers, mud plains and [...]
Fragments from Shallow Lake Platform POST, Van Oldenbarneveltstraat 63A, Nijmegen i.c.w. VRIZA Curated by Youri Appelo Opening: October 28, 2022, 8 p.m. Exhibition: October 29 - December 11 What are the ecological consequences of dumping contaminated soil into public waters? And can toxicity lead to new nature? Jasper Coppes' solo [...]
Third Horizon & Perez Art Museum Miami Present: A Season of Caribbean Cinema Part 2 Save the date! August 31, we're back with Part 2 of our series with PAMM's Caribbean Cultural Institute. Join us for a feature-length film and a short, followed by a conversation with one of the directors of [...]
Stones Have Laws (Dee Sitonu A Weti), a film by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, and Tolin Alexander, in collaboration with the Maroons from Suriname, has been selected by film collective Third Horizon to stream on Criterion Channel platform. Over the last decade, Third Horizon has established itself [...]
Set in an industrial wasteland in the middle of nowhere, East of Noon is a folktale somewhere between The Arabian Nights and Ubu roi, in which a bunch of brilliant youngsters find ways to survive the autocracy of a childish tyrant whose currency is lottery tickets and sugar cubes. The second feature film by an Egyptian artist, this baroque and excessive film stands out within African and Arab cinemas, invoking the spirits of the “new cinemas” of the sixties and seventies.
exhibition premiere of the film KALI WAAL by Jasper Coppes (22 min., 2024) location: puntWG, Amsterdam opening: 25 July 17:00 - 19:00 opening hours: 26 - 28 July 14.00 to 18.00 public conversation Fiction as Resistance: 27 July 17:00 – 19.00 The film KALI WAAL combines fiction and documentary approaches [...]
East of Noon has its Dutch premiere at IFFR at 4 February 2025, 18:15 in Pathé 3 in Rotterdam. Please join the screening. Director Hala Elkoussy, DOP Abdelsalam Moussa, and sound designer Abdalrahman Mahmoud and other crew will attend the screening.