Plantage Dok

even a dead star can be a lighthouse - by Maria Angerman
2025-11-16 19:00 - 2025-11-26 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Dokzaal
even a dead star can be a lighthouse
shortfilm+ performance lecture
by Maria Angerman

What happens when oxygen fads at the sdige of the sea?
Maria Angerman will present two works in dialogue that explore the shifting scologies bangath the sur-
face. The short film Even a Dead Star Can Be a Lighthouse is a spaculation on the resilisnoe and adapt-
ability of aquatic life as it encounters changing environmental conditions. (Un)Intentional Migrators is a
performance lecture that refiscts on svolutionary ecology and invasive spacies to the sounds of the dax-
ophone. Among the whispars of underwater beings, the quastion remains: who has the right to dacida
who belongs?
Maria Angerman is an artist and fimmaker based in Fin/ano, who s interesigo in now/ thresnoo spaces
between land and sea reveal processes of loss, resilience, and transformation, while also offering grounds
for imagining alternative futures. Last winter she did a residency at Plantage Dok, where sha developed
the film, partly in collaboration with the residents.
Kindly supported by @kulturfonden @taiksgram @sisfinland @svensk-osterbottniskasamfundet

FREE ENTRANCE

Dok Night / SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA / PANEL STORY (1980) ​​Directed by Vera Chytilová
2025-11-20 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.
PANEL STORY 1980
(Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste)

​​Directed by Vera Chytilová
96 minutes
In Czech with English subtitles

The bold films of Czechoslovakian director Vera Chytilová (Daisies) are still largely deleted from film history at this moment. Women are generally marginalized if not downright ignored from the official film history books. Like female directors Lina Wertmüller, Liliana Cavani and Agnes Varda, Chytilová’s career shows an incredible wealth—her films are visionary and uncompromising. Her name is finally getting on the map a bit after all these years, but whenever a Chytilová film is shown today it’s still always the same one, over and over. Crazy. This flick is a black comedy that was banned for years, and still has never really been given a chance.
Vera Chytilová was a rebel who reflected the surreal changes that Czechoslovakia was going through in the 60s and 70s. Panel Story is an incredible encapsulation of the attempted modernist project taking place in the suburbs outside of Prague in the 70s… a creation that was actually a destruction… a dream that was a nightmare. The flats were conceived of as bright and modern solutions to a housing crisis, ready to be equipped with all the latest domestic appliances – but the result was a domestic hell promoting mind-numbing standardization. The mass-produced housing estates of efficient prefabricated high-rises were both a striving for paradise, and an expulsion from paradise at the same time.
This film probably only rivals Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her in its abrasive criticism of our Brave New World. This is real psycho-filmmaking, with deliberately chaotic editing, an atonal music score and sudden frantic camera movements that feel like the cameraman was a rat being flushed down a toilet. Chytilová’s use of space is compressed and claustrophobic, and the structure of the film is a rapid-fire flipping through the tenant’s households, almost as if we are jumping through channels on a television with a remote control. The images are taut and overbearing, the sound-design is compressed and autistic. Throughout the mess we do manage to follow the paths of several people’s lives… in a fragmented, scattered way.
Incendiary cinema, created by a brave soul… one of Czechoslovakia’s greatest…

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

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.

Free screening
Dinners are available from 19:00

Dok Night
2025-11-27 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-04 18:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-11 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

Documentary 'From Compassion to Crime'
2025-12-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Dokzaal
Op maandag 8 december 2025 wordt de documentaire From Compassion to Crime vertoond bij Plantage Dok, Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam.
De avond duurt van 19.30 tot 21.30 uur en bestaat uit de filmvertoning met een voor- en nagesprek.

🎬 THE FILM IS SHOWN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

Over de film
From Compassion to Crime laat zien hoe mensen die zich solidair tonen met vluchtelingen – door hen te redden, op te vangen of hun verhalen zichtbaar te maken – steeds vaker worden vervolgd als criminelen.

Op 3 juli 2025 stemde de Tweede Kamer in met de Asielnoodmaatregelenwet. Deze wet maakt niet alleen verblijf zonder papieren strafbaar, maar ook het helpen van mensen zonder papieren. Wat jarenlang in Zuid-Europa gebeurde – waar vrijwilligers, advocaten en journalisten werden vervolgd – is nu werkelijkheid geworden in Nederland.
De documentaire volgt verschillende mensen die hun menselijkheid boven de regels stelden en daarvoor een hoge prijs betalen.

• Tommy Olsen (Aegean Boat Report) – een ex-kinderopvangpedagoog uit Noorwegen. Met zijn kleine NGO runt hij een noodlijn die 24/7 bereikbaar is voor vluchtelingen op zee en documenteert hij illegale pushbacks van de Griekse kustwacht. Juist daarom wordt hij nu beschuldigd van mensensmokkel en lidmaatschap van een criminele organisatie.

• Pieter Wittenberg – een schipper die drenkelingen op zee niet kon negeren. Hij bood uitgeputte mensen hulp tot de kustwacht hen overnam. Geen heldendaad, maar volgens hem “gewoon menselijkheid”. Toch klaagt Griekenland hem aan voor mensensmokkel en deelname aan een criminele organisatie.

• Ingeborg Beugel – Nederlandse journalist en jarenlang correspondent in Griekenland. Ze werd vervolgd wegens haar publicaties over de behandeling van vluchtelingen én omdat ze een jonge Afghaanse vluchteling tijdelijk in huis nam. Olangs is zij in hoger beroep vrijgesproken.

Hun verhalen staan niet op zichzelf. In Bosnië en Bulgarije worden hulpverleners opgesloten zonder proces, schepen van hulporganisaties worden aan de ketting gelegd, en zelfs in Ter Apel werden vrijwilligers vervolgd omdat zij voedsel uitdeelden.

De vraag die blijft hangen
From Compassion to Crime stelt een scherpe vraag:
Wat zegt het over onze samenleving als hulp aan je medemens strafbaar wordt?
Alleen al in 2023 werden 117 Europeanen vervolgd omdat zij vluchtelingen hielpen. De documentaire toont niet alleen cijfers, maar vooral de persoonlijke verhalen achter deze ontwikkeling.

Praktische informatie
📍 Locatie
Plantage Dok
Plantage Doklaan 8
Amsterdam

📅 Datum
Maandag 8 december 2025

⏰ Tijd
Van 19.30 tot 21.30 uur,
met voorgesprek en nagesprek.

🎫 Tickets online kopen

🎬 THE FILM IS SHOWN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
(Voeg hier zelf een ticket- of aanmeldlink toe als die er is.)

Over de maker
From Compassion to Crime is de debuutdocumentaire van Stanzen Leh Jelsma. De film onderzoekt hoe daden van solidariteit in Europa – en nu ook in Nederland – steeds vaker strafbaar worden gesteld. Het is een urgente film die aansluit bij maatschappelijke debatten, protesten en fundamentele vragen over rechtvaardigheid, menselijkheid en solidariteit.

Dok Night / PUNISHMENT PARK (1971) Directed by Peter Watkins
2025-12-18 18:00 - 23:00 | Dokhuis
Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.
PUNISHMENT PARK (1971)
Directed by Peter Watkins
88 minutes
In English

Peter Watkins is one of the most important filmmakers still living….he stands right up there with Godard in creating his own vision of cinema and social responsibility. And also like many visionaries Watkins has mostly been criticized for making absurd claims, only to find out a few years later that everything he said was true.
PUNISHMENT PARK is Watkins view of America in the early 70s. He considered it a sort of science fiction film set in the near future, and actually its parallels with Guantanamo Bay are chilling. This film is about the construction of “punishment parks” in the deserts where all undesirables are being held. Watkins’ films tend to be banned in the country he makes them in, and it was also true of this film which was banned as being un-american. Made with a cast of unprofessional actors, who contributed in the creation of the piece, this is an example of spontaneous filmmaking at its most intelligent…. a pseudo-documentary which has absolutely astounding results. The film remains one of the most controversial, most searing films in the history of cinema.
And, hey, guess what…. when Obama was in office he signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which means that now anyone in America can now suddenly be taken away, without charge, without a lawyer, without trial and imprisoned/tortured indefinitely. Yep, we are certainly living in Science fiction these days.
One recent viewer’s response:
“To think this film was made the year I was born. To think people are still having their constitutional rights taken away, now in the name of “homeland security”. To think this movie was intentionally banned from the American public. PUNISHMENT PARK addresses the political divide in the United States better than any movie I’ve ever seen. A movie like this is so polarizing, it has the potential to cause riots. It makes you face the issue: are you for the people’s right of dissent in a time of war, or for the constitution being compromised in the name of “national security”? The acting is totally convincing. So much so, I can’t see any acting going on here at all. If this is a scripted documentary, it’s more convincing than any reality show on television today. PUNISHMENT PARK is possibly the most important film ever made.”

20:30
Free screening
Dinners are available from 19:00

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

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.

SHAPES LINES AND LAYERS – Celebration Ig 80 Ab 70 = 150
2025-12-28 17:00 - 22:00 | Dokzaal
a day with two concerts, a meal and publications about the work of Ig and the work of Ab.
the first concert 17:00-18:00: a selection of Hennemans compositions. For this occasion Ig will write a new composition for accordeon and voice.
the second concert 20:00-21:30: an improvisation concert of duo Baars Henneman and international guests.
Ticket here.
flyer with full details:
