Trendy Tropics x Slowblink
Line up: Serena, Slowblink

Fourth episode of Trendy Tropics, the series of films that confronts a simple paradox: Europe loves to talk about the Global South but rarely listens to it. Social media feeds overflow with opinions, outrage, and trending solidarities. Yet behind these circulating images, real lives remain abstract, distant, almost fictional. We want to reverse the gaze. Films from Africa, Latin America and Asia speak back not as case studies, not as moral lessons, but as lived realities, contradictions and all that comes with it. Ventilator wants to invite audiences to step beyond the comfort of "awareness" and into the unsettling space of genuine encounter. With screenings, live music, shared food, and an open space for confrontation, Trendy Tropics merges art and activism not to make us feel better about the world, but to see it more clearly.
We will screen a dreamlike story about belonging, about who gets a place and who gets pushed out of it, and about what happens when we stop looking away.

Slowblink is an experimental post-rock trio. Their music glistens with abrasive noise, controlled feedback, hissing cassettes and luscious string chords; weaved together to form a jagged bedrock for the tender and sincere melodycism of the vocals.

For this edition of trendy tropics, slowbink will perform an original re-scoring.

Amsterdam-based selector, music producer and curator SERENA forges immersive soundscapes that merge aggressive noise with atmospheric textures, dubby loops, distorted guitars, and guttural vocals will DJ at the bar before and after the event.

19.00 Doors open
20.00 Screening with live soundtrack by Slowblink

Food by Sofian, and caipirinhas available at the venue.