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Join our Silent film festival on october the 12th at the 'Vredestuin' with guest speakers and live performances.
17:30 - 22:00 hrs
Free admission
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Join our Silent film festival on october the 12th at the 'Vredestuin' with guest speakers and live performances.
17:30 - 22:00 hrs
Free admission
PROGRAM
On saturday, October the 12th we will start at 17:30 hrs with a neighborhood celebration where visitors and local residents can come together for a snack and a drink.
We will then screen a selection of silent films, chosen partly by local residents and partly by guest speakers and artists. There will also be performances during and inbetween these silent films.
In silent films, people, animals, things and events tell their stories. Instead of speaking, actors often use grand gestures, exaggerated facial expressions and body language, turning these films into universal visual tales that are understandable for everyone.
We will experience an event where silent movie and live performance come together and form a unique mix that you won’t find anywhere else. Because every choice and combination of film and artist has an effect that’s unlike any other.
Niek Hilkmann
Long before Lassie came along, another dog became a celebrity
on the big screen. In 1905, director Cecil Hepworth (1874-1953) casted his collie, Blair, as leading actor in 'Rescued By Rover' (1905). This movie was a real blockbuster and at the time more than 400 prints were sold. Visitors couldn't get enough of
Rover's heroic deeds. For the first time in history an animal movie star was born.
Together with film scholar and artist Niek Hilkmann we will look back on Blair's life and work. Until Blair's death in 1914 Hepworth made several films starring him. We are going to show some highlights of these films, including the breakthrough in 'Rescued By Rover' (1905), his meeting with Black Beauty in 'Dumb Sagacity' (1907) and the exciting 'The Dog Outwits The Kidnapper' (1908).
Narjara Grondman
Using old film footage, our Rotterdam storyteller will show you Rotterdam as it was. She talks about, among other things, the 'Delftse Poort' which used to be one of the city gates of Rotterdam, and the heliport that was located near the Rotte and the Hofplein. This used to be a landing site for helicopters but has now turned into the 'hobgoblin village'.
Tisa World
Tisa World [Slovenia, 1996] is a multidisciplinarian - primarily a vocalist, a composer and a conductor. With her voice, language and presence, she resides in the now; inventing interaction models that reach beyond the grid. When performing, she sources a song from the beyond, imaginatively playing with structures, narratives, poetry and emotion.
In her research, she mystically traverses the practices of composition and improvisation, emphasizing their emancipatory potential. She performs, exhibits, curates and publishes around the world: promiscuously, collaboratively, spontaneously and with great joy.
In 2024 she is a resident of the Hamburger Community at Roodkapje Rotterdam, collectively organizing Happenings. She inaugurated a rehearsal space and micro venue “Sound Room” at De Boog Rotterdam, otherwise a collective graphic arts workshop that she has been a member of since 2021. She takes part in various music ensembles [Stepmother, Tisa&Mojca, Shall we?, Warping, Triangulation, Voronoi Collective] and communities [RE#SISTER, Singing Club Rotterdam, De Boog].
Her long term community project for interdisciplinary improvisation and performance “Mystery Sessions” is a gently conducted workshop for body, voice, language and imagination and happens at UBIK, Worm. She hosts “The Side Entrance” and “Residential” interview radio shows at the community Radio Worm. She completed a bachelor in Fine Arts in Ljubljana, and a masters in Experimental Publishing in Rotterdam where she is currently based.
Vanita & Johanna Monk
Johanna Monk is a musician, writer, performance artist and curator living in Rotterdam. Her main artistic collaborator is her lifelong partner Vanita Monk (1944-2024), carrying on and expanding an interdisciplinary body of work that is all about transformation, healing, trauma, violence, love, enlightenment, absurdity and laughter. Johanna plays saxophones, clarinets, keyboards, electronics, vocal and percussion.
Ongoing projects include the free-funk-literary trio Traumatic Octopus Experience (with Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva and Philipp Ernsting) and the multimedia Vanita Monk Orchestra, of which she is the artistic director.
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