LiVE DRAWING
Supermercator, Tuesday, June 23 at 07:00 PM GMT+2
We're exploring:
portrait/expression
nudes/poses
fabrics/costume
contrast/light
movement/action
composition/objects
odd creatures/in the forest...
We serve drinks & snacks, play music and cultivate a safe but loose atmosphere.
MATERIALS INCLUDED
DONATION BASED
18:30
DOORS OPEN
19-20:15
SESSION 1
*20:15-20:30
BREAK
20:30-22:00
SESSION 2
*if you want to do just one session
you can join or leave in the break
CiNEMERCATOR - Sydney Pollack AMAZING GRACE 1972
Supermercator, Wednesday, June 17 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Filmlover,
Merthe Voorhoeve,
Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar
& Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:00
start 20:00
ticket 3€
17-6
Alan Elliott/Sydney Pollack
AMAZING GRACE
1972/2018
In this beautiful concert film, documenting a performance given by Aretha Franklin in 1972, the Queen of Soul shines like no other. The footage was originally shot by Hollywood director Sydney Pollack, but due to technical problems it remained locked away in a vault for decades, until director Alan Elliott finally assembled it in 2018. The film was released shortly after Franklin’s passing.
The concert offers a wonderful portrait of a then 30-year-old Franklin, performing in the gospel tradition in which she was raised and which remained deeply her own. Through her music, she bridges the world of traditional churchgoers and the pop icons of the era, all of whom made the journey to the Baptist church to hear Aretha sing.
This film is chosen by Maaike
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CiNEMERCATOR - Alice Rohrwach er CORPUS CELESTE 2012
Supermercator, Wednesday, June 10 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Filmlover,
Merthe Voorhoeve,
Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar
& Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:00
start 20:00
ticket 3€
10-6
Alice Rohrwacher CORPUS CELESTE 2012
Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste has the quiet intensity of someone observing the world very closely without trying to force meaning onto it. The film follows Marta, a shy thirteen-year-old girl returning with her family to southern Italy after years abroad, as she drifts through the rituals of Catholic education and adolescence with a mixture of curiosity, confusion and silent disappointment. Rohrwacher films this world with remarkable patience: priests, catechism teachers, crumbling apartment blocks, half-finished conversations, neon lights, cheap religious imagery- all of it feels both; absurd and deeply real.
Marta is searching for something sincere, some form of spiritual or emotional truth, but the adults around her mostly seem trapped in habit, vanity, or exhaustion. The film understands how lonely that realization can be at that age, when you begin noticing that the structures meant to guide you are themselves fragile and confused.
Rohrwacher has an extraordinary eye for faces, gestures, and spaces. Nothing is overstated. The film moves almost like memory: fragments of songs, awkward silences, nighttime streets, religious processions, moments of accidental beauty. Beneath its realism there is also something faintly mystical, as if the possibility of grace still exists somewhere at the edges of this broken world, even if nobody quite knows how to reach it anymore.
This film is chosen by Andreas
17-6
Alan Elliott/Sydney Pollack AMAZING GRACE 1972/2018
In this beautiful concert film, documenting a performance given by Aretha Franklin in 1972, the Queen of Soul shines like no other. The footage was originally shot by Hollywood director Sydney Pollack, but due to technical problems it remained locked away in a vault for decades, until director Alan Elliott finally assembled it in 2018. The film was released shortly after Franklin’s passing.
The concert offers a wonderful portrait of a then 30-year-old Franklin, performing in the gospel tradition in which she was raised and which remained deeply her own. Through her music, she bridges the world of traditional churchgoers and the pop icons of the era, all of whom made the journey to the Baptist church to hear Aretha sing.
This film is chosen by Maaike
Do you want to receive our
Send 'show me your movies' to:
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinemercator-alice-rohrwach-er-corpus-celeste-2012
CiNEMERCATOR - Luchino Visconti BELISSIM A 1951
Supermercator, Wednesday, June 3 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Filmlover,
Merthe Voorhoeve,
Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar
& Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:00
start 20:00
ticket 3€
3-6
Luchino Visconti BELISSIMA 1951
Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima feels at once tender and merciless. What begins as a story about a mother pushing her daughter toward stardom slowly reveals itself as something sadder and more universal: a portrait of people clinging to dreams because reality offers them so little dignity. Visconti never reduces this to satire, even when the film exposes the absurdity of the film industry and the cruelty hidden inside fantasies of success.
What makes Bellissima so moving is the tension between spectacle and intimacy. Cinecittà, with all its lights and illusions, hovers over the film like a machine that feeds on longing, while the emotional center remains painfully small and human: a mother terrified that her child might inherit the same disappointments she did. The film has the texture of neorealism, but there’s already something harsher and more theatrical emerging in Visconti’s gaze; an understanding that performance is not confined to cinema; people perform constantly in order to survive.
By the end, Bellissima becomes less about cinema than about love distorted by ambition and poverty. Its final emotional turn lands with devastating clarity: the rare moment when affection finally outweighs illusion. Few films capture so precisely the humiliation and tenderness of wanting a better life for someone you love.
This film is chosen by Elisabeth
10-6
Alice Rohrwacher CORPUS CELESTE 2012
Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste has the quiet intensity of someone observing the world very closely without trying to force meaning onto it. The film follows Marta, a shy thirteen-year-old girl returning with her family to southern Italy after years abroad, as she drifts through the rituals of Catholic education and adolescence with a mixture of curiosity, confusion and silent disappointment. Rohrwacher films this world with remarkable patience: priests, catechism teachers, crumbling apartment blocks, half-finished conversations, neon lights, cheap religious imagery- all of it feels both; absurd and deeply real.
Marta is searching for something sincere, some form of spiritual or emotional truth, but the adults around her mostly seem trapped in habit, vanity, or exhaustion. The film understands how lonely that realization can be at that age, when you begin noticing that the structures meant to guide you are themselves fragile and confused.
Rohrwacher has an extraordinary eye for faces, gestures, and spaces. Nothing is overstated. The film moves almost like memory: fragments of songs, awkward silences, nighttime streets, religious processions, moments of accidental beauty. Beneath its realism there is also something faintly mystical, as if the possibility of grace still exists somewhere at the edges of this broken world, even if nobody quite knows how to reach it anymore.
This film is chosen by Andreas
17-6
Alan Elliott/Sydney Pollack AMAZING GRACE 1972/2018
In this beautiful concert film, documenting a performance given by Aretha Franklin in 1972, the Queen of Soul shines like no other. The footage was originally shot by Hollywood director Sydney Pollack, but due to technical problems it remained locked away in a vault for decades, until director Alan Elliott finally assembled it in 2018. The film was released shortly after Franklin’s passing.
The concert offers a wonderful portrait of a then 30-year-old Franklin, performing in the gospel tradition in which she was raised and which remained deeply her own. Through her music, she bridges the world of traditional churchgoers and the pop icons of the era, all of whom made the journey to the Baptist church to hear Aretha sing.
This film is chosen by Maaike
Do you want to receive our
Send 'show me your movies' to:
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinemercator-luchino-visconti-belissim-a-1951
LiVE DRAWING
Supermercator, Tuesday, May 26 at 07:00 PM GMT+2
We're exploring:
portrait/expression
nudes/poses
fabrics/costume
contrast/light
movement/action
composition/objects
odd creatures/in the forest...
We serve drinks & snacks, play music and cultivate a safe but loose atmosphere.
MATERIALS INCLUDED
DONATION BASED
18:30
DOORS OPEN
19-20:15
SESSION 1
*20:15-20:30
BREAK
20:30-22:00
SESSION 2
*if you want to do just one session
you can join or leave in the break
CiNEMERCATOR - Xavier Dolan MOMMY 2014
Supermercator, Wednesday, May 27 at 08:00 PM GMT+2
Filmlover,
Merthe Voorhoeve,
Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar
& Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:00
start 20:00
ticket 3€
27-5
Xavier Dolan MOMMY 2014
A rough-edged yet beautiful woman lost her husband years earlier and suddenly found herself a single mother to their aggressive, uncontrollable son Steve. Steve has spent years in a closed institution, and Diane decides to bring him back home and start over together with him. This proves harder than she expected...
This film is chosen by Maaike
3-6
Luchino Visconti BELISSIMA 1951
Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima feels at once tender and merciless. What begins as a story about a mother pushing her daughter toward stardom slowly reveals itself as something sadder and more universal: a portrait of people clinging to dreams because reality offers them so little dignity. Visconti never reduces this to satire, even when the film exposes the absurdity of the film industry and the cruelty hidden inside fantasies of success.
What makes Bellissima so moving is the tension between spectacle and intimacy. Cinecittà, with all its lights and illusions, hovers over the film like a machine that feeds on longing, while the emotional center remains painfully small and human: a mother terrified that her child might inherit the same disappointments she did. The film has the texture of neorealism, but there’s already something harsher and more theatrical emerging in Visconti’s gaze; an understanding that performance is not confined to cinema; people perform constantly in order to survive.
By the end, Bellissima becomes less about cinema than about love distorted by ambition and poverty. Its final emotional turn lands with devastating clarity: the rare moment when affection finally outweighs illusion. Few films capture so precisely the humiliation and tenderness of wanting a better life for someone you love.
this film is chosen by Elisabeth
10-6
Alice Rohrwacher CORPUS CELESTE 2012
Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste has the quiet intensity of someone observing the world very closely without trying to force meaning onto it. The film follows Marta, a shy thirteen-year-old girl returning with her family to southern Italy after years abroad, as she drifts through the rituals of Catholic education and adolescence with a mixture of curiosity, confusion and silent disappointment. Rohrwacher films this world with remarkable patience: priests, catechism teachers, crumbling apartment blocks, half-finished conversations, neon lights, cheap religious imagery- all of it feels both; absurd and deeply real.
Marta is searching for something sincere, some form of spiritual or emotional truth, but the adults around her mostly seem trapped in habit, vanity, or exhaustion. The film understands how lonely that realization can be at that age, when you begin noticing that the structures meant to guide you are themselves fragile and confused.
Rohrwacher has an extraordinary eye for faces, gestures, and spaces. Nothing is overstated. The film moves almost like memory: fragments of songs, awkward silences, nighttime streets, religious processions, moments of accidental beauty. Beneath its realism there is also something faintly mystical, as if the possibility of grace still exists somewhere at the edges of this broken world, even if nobody quite knows how to reach it anymore.
this film is chosen by Andreas
Do you want to receive our
Send 'show me your movies' to:
https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/cinemercator-xavier-dolan-mommy-2014
Drag Bingo & Poetry
De Nieuwe Liefde, Sunday, June 21 at 04:00 PM GMT+2
Met spoken word van Zaïre Krieger & Geoffrey van der Ven en drag van Queen Heisa Jynx.
Wat is leuker dan bingo? Een Drag Bingo mét spoken word, literaire prijzen, eten, muziek en een flinke dosis glitter, humor en chaos. Tussen de bingokaarten door luister je naar performances van spoken word-artiesten Zaïre Krieger en Geoffrey van der Ven die je meenemen in persoonlijke verhalen, scherpe observaties en ritmische vertellingen. De middag wordt gehost door de kleurrijke Queen Heisa Jynx, die met flair, humor en spectaculaire presence de bingo naar een hoger niveau tilt.
Kom kijken, luisteren, lachen en winnen. Bingo was nog nooit zó fabulous. The library is open!
Zaïre Krieger
Zaïre Krieger is dichter, spoken word-artiest, activist, journalist en vertaler. In 2019 ontving ze een SPOKEN Award als ‘een van de meest inspirerende woordkunstenaars van het moment’. Uit Kriegers werk spreekt een roep om rechtvaardigheid en liefde. In 2020 was ze co-organisator van de Black Lives Matter protest in Rotterdam. Haar performances zijn gelaagd, ritmisch en doorvoeld. Ze vertaalde het gedicht The Hill We Climb dat Amanda Gorman voordroeg tijdens Joe Bidens inauguratie. De tweetalige editie werd uitgebracht in 2022.
Geoffrey van der Ven
Geoffrey van der Ven is een spoken word-artiest en theatermaker met een scherpe, kritische en activistische stem. In zijn werk, geworteld in queer en BIPOC-identiteit, vertelt hij de verhalen die te lang ongehoord zijn bleven. Zo brengt hij met zijn solovoorstelling Het is niet nieuw de queer geschiedenis van Afrika onder de aandacht. Eerder won hij de Poet of the Year Award bij de Queer & Feminist Poetry Awards en stond hij op podia als het Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotterdam Pride en Museumnacht. Hij werkt nu aan zijn tweede solo-project Anders ik wel... over queer schaamte.
Heisa Jynx
Heisa Jynx is een dragqueen die dol is op kleur, glitter en vooral veel gekkigheid. Met haar bonte outfits tovert ze een glimlach op ieder gezicht. Ze is een DJ, een performer en vaak te vinden in de discotheken, theaters en af en toe zelfs op televisie. Heisa laat zien dat iedereen zichzelf mag zijn, en dat een beetje gek doen juist heel leuk is.
KLEINE VERZINSELS
WG Kunst, Sunday, May 24 at 01:00 PM GMT+2
Van 22 t/m 24 mei exposeren Sanja Marušić, Yemo Park en Norbert Storm gezamenlijk in WG Kunst.
Fotografie, sculptuur, schilderkunst en videowerk komen samen in een wereld waar herinneringen hun eigen richting kiezen, ontsporen of opnieuw worden opgevoerd. Fictieve ondernemingen krijgen een emotionele lading, terwijl familieverhoudingen langzaam veranderen in fabels, reconstructies en herinneringen die zich moeilijk laten vastzetten. Personages dwalen door landschappen die tegelijk huiselijk, absurd en onwerkelijk aanvoelen.
Sanja Marušić (1991) is een Nederlands-Kroatische fotograaf. In haar geënsceneerde beelden bouwt zij miniatuur werelden waarin een menselijke figuur, vaak zijzelf, zich door mysterieuze en surrealistische landschappen beweegt. Haar werk vertrekt vanuit persoonlijke ervaringen, maar verschuift langzaam richting droom logica, vervreemding en mythe.
Yemo Park (1990, Seoul) maakt sculpturen en installaties die voortkomen uit fictieve, vaak absurde ondernemingen. Deze niet-bestaande bedrijven onderzoeken artistieke autonomie, arbeid en de sociale systemen die onze levens vormgeven. In Kleine Verzinsels transformeert zij overleden honden tot sculpturale objecten, zodat families hun verdwenen metgezel letterlijk dichtbij kunnen houden.
Norbert Storm (1984, Amsterdam) is cineast en schilder. Hij toont een nieuwe reeks schilderijen rond verstoorde familieverhoudingen: half herinnerd, half geconstrueerd, met hemzelf voortdurend aan de rand van het beeld. Daarnaast vertoont hij videowerk opgebouwd uit kleine familiaire scènes die balanceren tussen documentaire, performance en enscenering.
KLEINE VERZINSELS
WG Kunst, Saturday, May 23 at 01:00 PM GMT+2
Van 22 t/m 24 mei exposeren Sanja Marušić, Yemo Park en Norbert Storm gezamenlijk in WG Kunst.
Fotografie, sculptuur, schilderkunst en videowerk komen samen in een wereld waar herinneringen hun eigen richting kiezen, ontsporen of opnieuw worden opgevoerd. Fictieve ondernemingen krijgen een emotionele lading, terwijl familieverhoudingen langzaam veranderen in fabels, reconstructies en herinneringen die zich moeilijk laten vastzetten. Personages dwalen door landschappen die tegelijk huiselijk, absurd en onwerkelijk aanvoelen.
Sanja Marušić (1991) is een Nederlands-Kroatische fotograaf. In haar geënsceneerde beelden bouwt zij miniatuur werelden waarin een menselijke figuur, vaak zijzelf, zich door mysterieuze en surrealistische landschappen beweegt. Haar werk vertrekt vanuit persoonlijke ervaringen, maar verschuift langzaam richting droom logica, vervreemding en mythe.
Yemo Park (1990, Seoul) maakt sculpturen en installaties die voortkomen uit fictieve, vaak absurde ondernemingen. Deze niet-bestaande bedrijven onderzoeken artistieke autonomie, arbeid en de sociale systemen die onze levens vormgeven. In Kleine Verzinsels transformeert zij overleden honden tot sculpturale objecten, zodat families hun verdwenen metgezel letterlijk dichtbij kunnen houden.
Norbert Storm (1984, Amsterdam) is cineast en schilder. Hij toont een nieuwe reeks schilderijen rond verstoorde familieverhoudingen: half herinnerd, half geconstrueerd, met hemzelf voortdurend aan de rand van het beeld. Daarnaast vertoont hij videowerk opgebouwd uit kleine familiaire scènes die balanceren tussen documentaire, performance en enscenering.
KLEINE VERZINSELS - Opening
WG Kunst, Friday, May 22 at 05:00 PM GMT+2
Van 22 t/m 24 mei exposeren Sanja Marušić, Yemo Park en Norbert Storm gezamenlijk in WG Kunst.
Fotografie, sculptuur, schilderkunst en videowerk komen samen in een wereld waar herinneringen hun eigen richting kiezen, ontsporen of opnieuw worden opgevoerd. Fictieve ondernemingen krijgen een emotionele lading, terwijl familieverhoudingen langzaam veranderen in fabels, reconstructies en herinneringen die zich moeilijk laten vastzetten. Personages dwalen door landschappen die tegelijk huiselijk, absurd en onwerkelijk aanvoelen.
Sanja Marušić (1991) is een Nederlands-Kroatische fotograaf. In haar geënsceneerde beelden bouwt zij miniatuur werelden waarin een menselijke figuur, vaak zijzelf, zich door mysterieuze en surrealistische landschappen beweegt. Haar werk vertrekt vanuit persoonlijke ervaringen, maar verschuift langzaam richting droom logica, vervreemding en mythe.
Yemo Park (1990, Seoul) maakt sculpturen en installaties die voortkomen uit fictieve, vaak absurde ondernemingen. Deze niet-bestaande bedrijven onderzoeken artistieke autonomie, arbeid en de sociale systemen die onze levens vormgeven. In Kleine Verzinsels transformeert zij overleden honden tot sculpturale objecten, zodat families hun verdwenen metgezel letterlijk dichtbij kunnen houden.
Norbert Storm (1984, Amsterdam) is cineast en schilder. Hij toont een nieuwe reeks schilderijen rond verstoorde familieverhoudingen: half herinnerd, half geconstrueerd, met hemzelf voortdurend aan de rand van het beeld. Daarnaast vertoont hij videowerk opgebouwd uit kleine familiaire scènes die balanceren tussen documentaire, performance en enscenering.
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