Plantage Dok

Taste before you waste – Wasteless Wednesday
2022-05-25 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-05-18 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-05-11 06:30 - 21:30, 2022-05-04 18:30 - 21:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokhuis
Taste before you waste – Wasteless Wednesday

As always, dinner is a donation-based 100% vegan feast created from zero waste ingredients salvaged from nearby Amsterdam food stores.

Doors open at 18:30 and we are operating on a first come, first served basis.

Sangre de Muerdago - galician-forest-folk concert
2022-05-21 20:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
15th anniversary european tour!

After 2 years of cancelled plans and albums materials released without tours to celebrate them, we are very pleased to be able to announce a return of SANGRE DE MUERDAGO to the netherlands.
https://sangredemuerdago.bandcamp.com/track/xuntas
The music of SANGRE DE MUERDAGO has been evolving for years to become today a free spirit that creates a common space between Galician music and chamber folk, with a critical and
contemporary vision of the world that surrounds us, calling to nature, love, kindness and respect.
On their first tour since the release of Xuntas Sangre will visit Amsterdam to play the Dokzaal of Plantagedok.
This former church hall with its beautifull accoustics is located in the creative nest of platagedok. Its a place where many artists and non-profit projects find their home. And the perfect place for Sangre to (almost) round up this first tour post covid.
The venue is close to Amsterdam central station and several Parkings. Reserve your ticket beforehand by sending a mail to thekla@adm.amsterdam
Come join us and experience mesmerizing music and accoustics this may saturday evening..!
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Filmavond, films for those who care | Working girls
2022-05-19 21:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
Presented by Jeffrey Badcock

A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

WORKING GIRLS 1986
Directed by Lizzie Borden
93 minutes
In English
Director Lizzie Borden was a unique one. At the very beginning of her career she knocked out two of the most confronting movies of the 1980s in America. Both were done on low-budgets, but took an unusually fierce stance on the topics they chose to deal with. The first film was the punk-socialist Born in Flames, which detailed a women’s guerrilla revolution in Manhattan, and the second ground-breaking film was this one, Working Girls.
This is an un-erotic film about sex. In other words it is about sex as a trade, the world of female sex workers. It depicts one day in the lives of three women—Molly and Dawn are workers, Lucy is the madame— all working in a modern apartment-brothel (escort service). All three women are there for different reasons (but all financial) and each handles the work in different ways. One is even a lesbian, and has to divorce her personal life from her business. What is crucial is that in this film we see a view of an escort service that is totally unrecognizable from the stereotype in any mainstream movie. It’s this brutal clash in how the situation is depicted that makes this such a valuable experience.
Director Borden did a lot of research on the brothel scene in New York City, and what she learned gives this flick many insights. Like I said before, there is not much sensuality here for the audience to experience, only the grind of unsavory work along with the boredom of killing a lot of time, waiting for the phone to ring. The actual sex scenes with the clients are not meant to be titillating or to seduce us in any way. They are set to a cold electronic music score by David Van Tieghem, keeping us, in a sense, at arm’s length. And although I make the movie sound like it is one sided—women vs the clients—actually it is much more complex and nuanced. For instance, one of the sex workers almost sees her work as a kind of therapy session for the men that visit her.
The film raises many questions, such as: who is exploiting who the most… the clients who use the service, or the women who cynically want to drain the rich bastards of their cash? And what about the madame that runs the joint? Or you can also step back even further and see the society we live in as a cat-and-mouse game where everyone is exploiting each other. And yet, despite it all, there are glimpses of something else in the narrative… moments of solidarity and caring.
“A modern classic uncompromisingly lensed through a female viewpoint.”

This will be a high-definition screening.
Free screening.

Dokhuis Night
2022-05-19 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis Night
> benefit art exhibition
> food and drinks
> filmavond

Dokhuis Night | Emma Feldhandler Quartet
2022-05-12 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis Night
18 – 23h Dok for Peace | Benefit Art Exhibition
18h Moroccan Food / Harira & Couscous with veggies / € 7,50 (cash only)
19h30 Emma Feldhandler Quartet

The Emma Feldhandler Quartet is an international project formed by 4 musicians from the Conservatory of Amsterdam ; Tijs Klaassen (double bass), Federica Lorusso (piano), Chen Har Even (drums), and Emma Feldhandler (guitar/composition).
Through her compositions, Emma explores her imagination and sensibility. She’s inspired by composers as Charles Mingus or Cecile McLorin Salvant, cinema (Gena Rowlands or John Cassavettes), danse (Wayne McGregor), or people she meets. Interplaying between the musicians is essential to the arrangement of the compositions ; the songs are feed by the talent and sensibility of every musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu4sMLrq5dE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMz_2yX6epU

Dokhuis Night - ASEED Benefit dinner
2022-05-05 19:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
What yummy scents fill this warm spring-air?
Can it be?
Is it true?
Yes it is! ASEED is organizing another benefit dinner.

Join us on the 5th of May from 7pm onwards at the Dokcafé to fill your bellies with delicious treats. You do not need to reserve a spot but places are limited, so make sure you show up not too late!
This time the earnings will go to the organization of the yearly Food Autonomy Festival (FAF), that willl be happening from the 27th-29th of May in Amsterdam and Utrecht. The FAF is a festival organized by ASEED, where we collectively discuss and celebrate alternatives and resistance to the state and the corporate-controlled industrial food system. It is a place where activists, farmers, young academics, food-lovers among many others who fight together for social and ecological justice are brought together. In doing so, we strive in both our perspectives and practices, to challenge racism, sexism, coloniality, and oppression in all its forms. Collectively we take engagement with food beyond procurement and make it a site of resistance, solidarity and autonomy.
At the dinner you will have the opportunity to learn a bit more about the Food Autonomy Festival and ask us all your questions 🙂
Come enjoy good food, good vibes, and make the FAF possible!
To make this solidarity dinner happen, we are looking for volunteers who can help us with various tasks such as setting up, cooking, serving and cleaning at the end of the night.
Are you interested in volunteering?
Let us know in this form so we can ad you to the volunteering schedule: https://form.jotform.com/221082318967359.
Food, drinks and good vibes will be provided! For any further information contact paulina@aseed.net or justine@aseed.net.
See you on the 5th!
Love and Rage,
The ASEED collective
ps. Suggested donation: 7 euros. Please bring your donations in cash 🙂

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-04-28 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Vegan Royal Hangover Whine and Dine with Maître Martin – Heavenly Cakes

by Miss Whips + bar, sounds and Benefit Art Exhibition

Koningshuis Kater Diner met Chef Maître Martin – Hemelse gebakjes van
Miss Whips + bar, sounds en Benefit Art Exhibition

Benefit Art Exhibition & Auction
2022-04-24 14:00 - 18:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis Galerie presents a Benefit Art Auction
Participating Artists
Blue Crime, Soon, Ashleigh McCulloch, Olivier Delebecque, Olle Stjerne, Frank Rosaly
Annelinde de Jong, Stéphanie Baechler, Spill Gold, Splitter Spletter, Silver Bone, Jackie Bacon, Julie Mollenhauer, Jason Swinehammer, Daan Simons / Tsugi Woodworks, Mirjam Langemeijer
Ingrid Sanghee Edwards, Bert van de Roemer, Daddy Hands, Alexandra Duvekot, Het Tekenlab
Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, Sanne Kabalt, Dishes, Slow Worries, Cinder Well, Jessica Lever, Helen Mason, Vita Buivid, Hilde Koenders, Alice Abel, Mirra Berridge, Olga Miscińska, Susan Kooi, Bashir

Click here for more information about the auction!

Filmavond, films for those who care | Blue Collar
2022-04-21 20:30 - 22:30 | Dokzaal
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
Presented by Jeffrey Badcock

A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

BLUE COLLAR 1978
Directed by Paul Schrader
114 minutes
In English with English subtitles
Damn, they don’t make films like this anymore, that’s for sure! After Paul Schrader wrote loads of screenplays for other directors like Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) he decided to direct one of his own scripts himself. His choice was this one, BLUE COLLAR…. and so with a great cast including Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant), and Yaphet Koto (Alien) and a volatile script, he created this explosive gem of a film which is one of the most underrated films from the 70s.
The film is about three drinking buddies who all work in a Detroit car factory. Pissed off about their worker’s union which they feel never does anything for them, one night they decide to rob the union’s safe. That’s the set-up for a film that hooks you in right from the great opening credit sequence and doesn’t let go until the final freeze-frame. This hilarious and tragic film was one of the last films made in Hollywood that depicted the reality of everyday people without all of the gloss, make-up and special effects.
Blue Collar has had a huge impact upon other filmmakers, but has been rarely screened in cinemas since it was made. For example, the whole interracial interaction between black and white people in this film seems to have been directly ripped off by Tarantino as a standard template for films like Pulp Fiction. And by the way, as if all that wasn’t enough, it also has a brilliant soundtrack featuring Captain Beefheart and Howlin’ Wolf. It’s still relevant and powerful thirty years after it was made….a lost masterpiece of engaged cinema. A dynamite film with riveting plot…. it’s a rare screening and it’s for free… what more could you ask for?
This will be a high-definition screening.
Free screening.

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-04-21 18:00 - 23:00, 2022-04-07 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

+ Benefit Art Exhibition
+ Vegan Maaltijd € 10,-
+ Vegan Cakes € 3,-

Benefiet Nicaragua: tasty meal and the rebellious music of singer-songwriter Jandir Rodríguez
2022-04-16 17:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
We are organizing this night in celebration and commemoration of the April 2018 protests in Nicaragua, which were brutally repressed by state and paramilitary forces, taking the lives of 328 people and leaving many more injured and in prison. It also pushed more than 150.000 people into exile. For this reason, the night is organized by the Nicaraguan refugee community in the Netherlands, in collaboration with SOSNicaragua-Holanda and the Dutch Solidarity with Nicaragua.

The dinner, starting at 18.00, is a “voku” – people’s kitchen – consisting of a series of typical Nicaraguan dishes like gallo pinto, tostones, adobo mushrooms and guiso (all vegetarian). There will also be tres leches and cajetas de coco for dessert.

The proceeds of the benefit dinner will support the families of political prisoners in need. If you want to be sure of a plate, please sign up for dinner with an email to: sosnicaragua.holanda@gmail.com

Following the dinner, at 20.00, Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Jandir Rodríguez, who is on tour to promote his second album “Volar”, will take the floor to sweep you away to warmer places There will be plenty of time to socialize and maybe even dance a bit! You can also see caricatures by exiled cartoonist Pedro X. Molina and add to the collage of dedications to Nicaragua set up downstairs.

We hope to see you all at Dokhuis on Saturday 16 April!

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Program: Doors open from 17.00 | Dinner from 18.00 | Concert & Music from 20.00
Price: donation € 5,- or more!
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NOTE: park your bikes in the bike spots, and never in front of the neighboor’s buildings. Keep sidewalks free, keep quiet outside. Thank you!

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-04-14 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

Dokhuis galerie presents:
Live: Frans Doedel – multi talent Amsterdam sailor Frans Doedel plays his songs about drinking and sailing, lost love, ports, streets and bars – unpolished and straight from the heart.
Expo: Benefit group exposition with the wildest variety of visual art – choose your favourite piece before the grand art auction on April 24! Benefit for Refugee Aid.
Food: Dinner at 19h by Earthallujah Productions and Heavenly vegan cakes by Miss Whips.
Dancefloor: DJ Gaap .. .. Rocking Hell!
See you on Thursday!

+ Benefit Art Exhibition
+ Vegan Maaltijd
+ Vegan Cakes

Crystalline
2022-04-09 21:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal
Helena Basilova & Jurjen Alkema
Pianiste Helena Basilova speelt muziek van Debussy tot Tanaka. Spectrale muziek, waarbij de componist de kleuren van klank als uitgangspunt nemen. Videokunstenaar Jurjen Alkema heeft hierbij in samenwerking met Helena een betoverend lichtontwerp gemaakt.
Op het programma staat werk van vier opeenvolgende generaties componisten: Debussy, Messiaen, Murail en Tanaka.
Messiaen raakte als jonge componist in de ban van Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande , die Messiaen omschreef als “een bliksemschicht” en “waarschijnlijk de meest doorslaggevende invloed op mij’. Messiaen gaf les aan Tristan Murail, en die op zijn beurt, had Karen Tanaka als student. Het concert beweegt van vroege stukken waarin Messiaen terugkijkt naar Debussy, naar een complexere taal in Vingt regards sur l’Enfant Jésus, vanwaar Murail het stokje overneemt, door naar Tanaka die uiteindelijk terugkeert naar eenvoud.

Programma
Claude Debussy – Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
Olivier Messiaen – Les sons incapable du rêve Première Communion de la Vierge
Tristan Murail – Les Traveaux et les Jours
Karen Tanaka – Crystalline I Children of Light- selection Water Dance I,II, III Techno Etudes I

Hosted by 24classics.

Dokhuis NIGHT - Dok for Peace Benefit Night
2022-03-31 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT – Benefit

6 pm ART OPENING by various artists who donated art. The final auction will take place Sunday 24th of April
7 pm dinner cooked by the lovely Elly
8 pm music by dreamy SOUND collective SHE WHO MAKES NOISE
9 pm the energetic amazing band DISHES

* all funds go to the Dok organization for Ukrainian refugees of non-European origin (BIPOC).*

Taste before you waste - Wasteless Wednesday
2022-03-30 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-23 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-16 18:30 - 21:30, 2022-03-09 18:30 - 21:30 | Dokhuis

Integendeel Performance Festival
2022-03-26 15:00 - 23:00 | Dokzaal & Dokhuis galerie, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam, 1018CM, Netherlands
Performances, installations, exhibitions and an unforgettable chess tournament.
ARTISTS:
*Avantika
*SULTAN.
*Waakhond
*Mematobe^
*Effie Adnam
*Flauwe Dieren
*De Dikke Vandalen
*Johannes and the Dyna Mites
*De Herontdekkingsreizigers van het Eigen Hart en de Gezamenlijke Ziel bij Kaarslicht
Entree € 12,-
Vegan Dinner € 10,-
www.integendeel.com

Dokhuis Band NIGHT
2022-03-24 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis Band NIGHT

19:00 vegan cuisine + expo Questions Collective

20:00 Combo Qazam, postpunk / math / noise band from Utrecht, NL

Combo Qazam is een Utrechtse postpunk-band die stevig leunt op grooves en meerstemmige vocalen. Op hun goed ontvangen debuut Flight Music (2020) koppelen ze dit aan 90’s indie, mathrock, prog en krautrock. Ritmisch, mechanisch en toch warm nostalgisch. Voor fans van Wire, Battles, Beak>, Tortoise, Pinback, Can en Devo.

Combo Qazam is a post-punk band from Utrecht that relies heavily on grooves and eerie vocal harmonies. On their well-received debut Flight Music (2020), they link this to 90s indie, math rock, prog and krautrock. Rhythmic and mechanical, yet nostalgic like a warm glow. For fans of Wire, Battles, Beak>, Tortoise, Pinback, Can and Devo.

Dokhuis NIGHT - Dok For Peace
2022-03-17 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Please join us for a fundraising dinner and screening.All proceeds go to Ukrainian refugees of non-European origin (BIPOC).Axe and Porridge will cook a traditional Ukrainian three-course dinner.
Suggested donation €20 (or more)

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SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
Presented by Jeffrey Badcock
A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

BLACK IS… BLACK AIN’T 1994Directed by Marlon Riggs87 minutesIn english
Let’s deep dive into the confronting cinema of Marlon Riggs—a black queer filmmaker who died from Aids-related complications at the tender age of 37. In some ways, he can be seen as the flipside of the cinematic coin shared with British director Derek Jarman. Both directors were committed — to activism, creativity and going against the grain. Briggs was always knocking out terribly sincere and frank documentaries, in ways that were not only unique in theme, but also in form. The films were inclusive, but also disruptive to the status quo. I personally believe we are all individuals, with radically different experiences, and whenever we speak the truth it will always go against the generic stereotypes propagated by the media. That is why cinema like that of Marlon Riggs is so crucial. It tells the other side of the story that isn’t being told.
This flick was Marlon’s last, and we even have passages of him lying in his hospital bed as he dies, giving his last thoughts. This is a kind of essay-film, flipping between personal reflections, street interviews, spoken poetry, discussions, folk stories, archival material and music—grappling with many issues that unexpectedly conflict, like Queerism, black culture and feminism. On top of it all, we get Angela Davis with her powerful observations, along with Cornel West. In general, there are two different groups of people—those that feel success comes from everyone jumping on the same bandwagon and gaining as many twitter followers as possible… and then there is the other idea of progress—bringing out the contradictions, the problems, and not glossing them over and pretend they don’t exist. Riggs clearly belongs to the latter, and it makes his voice that much stronger because of it. His films are uncomfortable not because they are provocative, but simply because they hit upon some hard truths that many try to avoid.

+ This will be a high-definition screening.
+ Screening at 21:00

Dokhuis NIGHT
2022-03-10 18:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
Dokhuis NIGHT

+ CERAMISTS

Ceramists are are a garage punk band based in Amsterdam East playing groovy punk songs. Debut album was released in 2019, and out on cassette. Second album Bambi Eyes out now!

+ DJ Mappe

+ Vegan (benefit) meals; profit goes to Ukraine refugees

+ Exhibition Questions Collective – alles uit de kast

Dokhuis NIGHT - Questions Collective, alles uit de kast
2022-03-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Dokhuis
We mogen weer dingen doen. Op deze avond zal alles gebeuren wat je nooit had verwacht.Harige monsters, gekleurde kleding, elektronische terror beats, treurige piano muziek en schaduw verhalen. Een mooie plek om elkaar te ontmoeten. Er is ook een sale met allemaal leuke dingen.
De bar is open en er zijn hapjes. Questions Collective is sinds kort onderdeel van de Plantage Dok en wil jullie graag ontmoeten.
Kom langs! Ook voor vragen op al uw antwoorden!

Start: 6PM Dinner till 8PM
– Sad Piano Tunes by the Forest Spirit – from 6 PM till the spirit vanishes
– Spoken Word by the Embodied Algorithm (Algje) in the dark – 7:30 PM
– Klokpackprijs performance – 8 PM
– Onkruid performance – 8:45 PM
– VJ DJ ROOSCEEE – 21:30 PM

Ongoing: Exhibition and DIY Genitalworkshop (Expo Till 24 Mrt)

Vegan Diner by Chef Lipsicus € 10,-
Vegan Cakes by Miss Whips € 3,-

https://plantagedok.nl/dokkers/questions-collective/

Taste Before You Waste – Wasteless Wednesday
2022-03-02 18:30 - 21:30 | Dokhuis
Taste before you waste – Wasteless Wednesday

As always, dinner is a donation-based 100% vegan feast created from zero waste ingredients salvaged from nearby Amsterdam food stores.

Doors open at 18:30 and we are operating on a first come, first served basis and on donation

www.tastebeforeyouwaste.org

Finissage Exhibition Sketches of Unfurling Fists
2022-02-27 14:00 - 20:30 | Dokhuis
Sketches of Unfurling Fists – an exhibition by Jason Swinehammer en Gus Moystad

In conjunction with the exhibition “Sketches of Unfurling Fists” at Plantage Dok, featuring the art of Jason Swinehammer and Gus Moystad, we’re organising an afternoon of intimate stories and poetry, and rounding off with a show! Discover and explore your own vulnerable masculinity with some tea and cake, while listening to some of Amsterdam’s best storytellers in an artistic environment!
Really, we just want to bring some beautiful souls together to share in togetherness ♥︎
You’re welcome from 14:00 to get a drink, and a tarot reading by none other than the illustrious artist extraordinaire himself, Jason Swinehammer!

At 15:00 we’ll start us off with stories and poems by:
☞ Gus Moystad (Host)☞ Phillip Melchers, Canadian Knuffelbeer (Story)☞ Alex D. Bagget, Thespian of the Far West (Story)☞ Araweelo’s Daughter, Fey Power Poet of 033 (Spoken Word)
After this portion of the afternoon, a small break to rest our hearts and wet our lips, before the show is wrapped up with a dragshow by our headliner:

★★★★★
♞ The Angsty Indieboy himself, Sir Valentijn the Sexy ♞
★★★★★

Towards 18:00 we will be rounding off, with the opportunity to stay and enjoy the art, the drinks, and the food.

Vegan food by Chef Lipsicus (Vegan Assassins) € 10,- / Cakes € 3,-

Filmavond - Films for those who care | Aftenlandet (1977)
2022-02-24 20:30 - 22:15 | Dokzaal
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Films for Those Who Care
Presented by Jeffrey Badcock

A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.

EVENING LAND 1977
(Aftenlandet)
Directed by Peter Watkins
109 minutes
In Danish with English subtitles
Done in Peter Watkins unique furious docudrama film style, blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, this is another engaging flick dealing with the world around us. The details of the situation don’t really matter much, because the themes are universal. Watkin’s films are not art movies, the director is only interested in discussion, and in finding new ways to understand the world around us since the old ways seem ineffective. Watkins was thrown out of almost every country he was in, except where he is now, in the countryside of France.
This film was shot in Denmark, and revolves around a country on the brink of collapse. We see workers taking over their workspace, we see radicals kidnapping a NATO head honcho. The country is unraveling on every level. But as these uprisings take place we more importantly see the workers and radicals discussing and trying to decide what the best course of action is. The cinema of Watkins is not about sensationalistic stories that serve as action movies – his films are there to help us think, and to care. Therefore this film is not only about a story, it is also about the world at large. How the military operates and how it will be used against its own people when push comes to shove. It is also a critique on the mass media and how it is used to distract and pacify us. Although Watkins is a visionary filmmaker, he is also a collective one, believing in a populist cinema. Therefore this flick was made with 192 non-professionals and everyone chipped in on every level (acting, the ideas explored, the direction the story takes).
Peter Watkins directed Evening Land for the Danish Film Institute, but once they screened it they felt it was too edgy, touching on topics that were too sensitive. So they have kept it under lock and key ever since, acting like it was never made. I can’t think of a better example than this director to show that certain filmmakers are being silenced for decades. As a writer in Le monde put it in 1971 “To find traces of Peter Watkins in a dictionary or a history of cinema you might as well hire a private detective. His works remain hidden, or forbidden, in most cases.”
To underline that point, in a documentary about Watkins, a TV executive explains bluntly why we never see his movies: “Some filmmakers say ‘this is my work and I want it to stay that way’. That is their right, and we respect that right. Those are the films we don’t buy, and those are the films we don’t transmit.”
Free screening
