Smashing in the doors of Amsterdam cinema (w/ BABYGIRL director Halina Reijn) | MUBI Podcast

The Netherlands isn't known for tons of great movies... but its capital city of Amsterdam is packed with tons of great movie theaters. Rico takes us on a tour of his favorite town, to learn why. (Spoiler alert: Breaking into buildings played a role).
Guests include director/actor Halina Reijn, NY Times contributor Nina Siegal, Ivo Schmetz (Ventilator cinema), Jeffrey Babcock (Underground cinema) and more.

Lang leve de meritocratie? Zo kaapt de diploma-elite geld en status | VPRO Tegenlicht

Niet klasse maar verdienste zal ieders positie in het leven bepalen. Geen gek uitgangspunt, zo op het eerste gezicht. Maar volgens Harvard-wetenschapper en politiek filosoof Michael Sandel is de meritocratie geen utopie, maar juist een tirannie. En de reden waarom er zoveel woede is tegen de elite.
Weg met de aristocratie, leve de meritocratie, waar iedereen gelijke kansen zou hebben aan de start, en zij die het verdienen allemaal zouden eindigen als winnaars. Maar volgens Sandel is de meritocratie een plausibele reden waarom fascisme nu zo welig tiert.

Waarom Amazon het einde van de samenleving kan betekenen, volgens Yanis Varoufakis | VPRO Tegenlicht

Volgens Yanis Varoufakis bevinden we ons in een tijd van post-kapitalisme. ‘Kapitalisme is gemuteerd tot technofeodalisme, een tiranniek systeem van georganiseerde domheid. Om onszelf te verdedigen, moeten we de nieuwe regels die onze levens beheersen leren begrijpen.’

Land for Life

Transylvania, Romania. One of Europe's biodiversity hotspots. The soil is alive and with this soil live many species of plants and animals, in large numbers. The landscape is alive, communities are alive. All this has been supported by the way small-scale farmers treat the land and how communities treat their habitat. Unfortunately, this bounty and beauty is under great pressure from rapidly advancing large-scale industrial agriculture. In Romania, five farms are closing down every hour. In many cases, the land that is freed up is being taken by large-scale agriculture, with all the disastrous consequences that this entails. The non-profit organization ALPA (www.alpa.land) aims to provide an alternative to this trend by securing land for a new generation of agroecological farmers and biodiversity enhancement. This film is the beginning of this new, hopeful story.

The last Farm of Amsterdam (2023)

In de Lutkemeerpolder in Amsterdam- West liggen de laatste landbouwgronden van de stad. Eeuwenlang maakten boeren en hun akkers deel uit van Amsterdam, maar nu is er nog maar één stukje over. En precies daar heeft de gemeente enorme distributiecentra gepland. De plannen zijn al jarenlang onderwerp van hevige discussie.
In de film verdedigt GroenLinks-wethouder Marieke van Doorninck de komst van het bedrijventerrein; zij is vastberaden de distributiecentra te laten bouwen. Boerin Trijntje probeert uit alle macht te voorkomen dat haar biologische zorgboerderij moet verdwijnen voor loodsen en vrachtwagens. Ondertussen komen betrokken Amsterdammers met steeds hardere acties. Hoe is het zo ver gekomen? Waarom wordt het bedrijventerrein eigenlijk hier gebouwd? Of zijn er alternatieven?
Dircetor: Bart Melief // Stichting Films for life

Capital B. - Who owns Berlin | International Trailer

Since the fall of the Wall in 1989, Berlin has been transformed via many detours from a rather provincial city into a world metropolis, one that today resembles both a boomtown and an ungovernable zone. The five-part documentary series Capital B recounts the exciting and entertaining tale of how the city meandered into becoming what it is today. It’s a story of idealism and megalomania, activism and the force of capital, of social advancement and exclusion. Capital B draws us into the slipstream of a unique city and into the battles that have been waged in Berlin with passion and no holds barred for thirty years to decide one question: Who does this city belong to?

Capital B is not the umpteenth true-crime series, but an unprecedented urban sociology in the form of an exciting, entertaining and highly topical documentary series. New in style, socio-politically relevant and excitingly told. Like Netflix, but public service. Or to put it immodestly: a mixture of House of Cards and The Wire, but for real, as a docu-series.
© Port au Prince Films

Slag om de stad de Nieuwmarkt - Andere Tijden S27E10

Veertig jaar geleden, op 24 maart 1975, joeg de burgemeester van Amsterdam 800 man politie de Nieuwmarktbuurt in. Om gekraakte panden te ontruimen voor de aanleg van de metro, maar vooral om de laatste slag te leveren in een strijd van jaren. Aan de ene kant stond het gemeentebestuur die grootschalige plannen had voor de inrichting van de stad. Aan de andere kant verzamelde zich een steeds grotere schare actievoerders die het historische karakter van de stad wilden behouden en de verkrotte huizen renoveren. De actievoerders wisten menig plan tegen te houden of om te buigen. Maar op het punt van de metro hield de gemeente de poot stijf: die moest en zou er komen. En dus kwam het in maart en april 1975 tot hevige gevechten. 
© Andere Tijden // Website 

Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies

A personal look at Community Currencies in Kenya and Will Ruddick.
Originally aired on CANVAS TV Belgium.
More information at http://grassrootseconomics.org

Shillings from Heaven / Wörgl's Miracle

Creating and exchanging promises (credit obligations) builds thriving communities and should be enshrined a basic human right. The story of Wörgl is the first implementation of demurrage. It has been an inspiration for Grassroots Economics and many others.

Grassroots Economics

Land voor het Leven, de kracht van regeneratie

‘Land voor het Leven, de kracht van regeneratie’ is de nieuwste documentaire van Rik van der Linden, waarin hij de wereld van regeneratieve landbouw op de Lenteland-boerderijen laat zien. Voor meer info over de Lenteland check: www.lente.land

Wild Palms

Wild Palms is a five-hour miniseries produced by Greengrass Productions and first aired in May 1993 on ABC. The sci-fi drama deals with the dangers of politically motivated abuse of mass media technology and virtual reality. It was based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen.

Draaimolen festival mini docu

In the hyper-capitalistic, competitive dance market, Draaimolen is like a unicorn: a delightfully defiant dance festival in Tilburg with a distinctive lineup full of adventurous DJs and enchanting stages unlike anything you’ve ever seen. In this documentary, 3voor12 editor-in-chief Timo Pisart follows the festival director who constantly raises the bar and speaks with curators like KI/KI, Pariah, Eris Drew, and Octo Octa.

Shift Change (trailer)

SHIFT CHANGE is a documentary film by veteran award-winning filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin.
Shift Change visits the 50-year-old network of cooperative businesses in Mondragon, Spain, and thriving examples of such businesses in U.S. The film shares on-the-ground experiences, lessons, and observations from the worker-owners on the front lines of the new economy.

Decolonizing Minds - The Wretched of the Earth - Khadija Al Mourabit - Ventilator Cinema

Screening + Talk at the Amsterdam Alternative Ventilator Cinema (OT301).
This event will unravel the philosophical framework of Fanon's work “The Wretched of the Earth”, emphasizing the dehumanizing nature of colonialism and the pivotal role of resistance in reclaiming humanity. Using the cinematic lens of "The Battle of Algiers," we will navigate through key scenes, illustrating Fanon's concepts such as the street as a theater of conflict, guerrilla warfare, the psychological toll of struggle, and the significance of women’s engagement in the fight for liberation.

"Somewhere in Detroit": Underground Resistance, Submerge, Techno and the Detroit Way

Somewhere in Detroit is a new short film about Detroit’s greatest musical collective since Motown, the cooperative and record label dubbed Submerge and UR (Underground Resistance). The mini-documentary reveals intimate conversations, providing unique insights into the tight-knit co-op at the center of Detroit techno—the creators, pioneers, and futurists who embody the spirit of the genre.

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Documentary about copyright, copyleft and creative commons. How free creative work inspires new creativity, and artists such as Girl Talk. This was the feature documentary during the Creative Commons Week on ThreeNL.

Groeten uit de koekenstad

Is there still room for experiment in the city?

Filmmaker Jan Beddegenoodts ontmoette in twee jaar meer dan 40 collectieven, kunstenaars en andere vrijbuiters uit de Antwerpse vrijplaatsen scene om te praten over ruimte voor creativiteit en experiment in de stad.

A film by Jan beddegenoodts // © 2022
cameltown.org

Free Tekno - Full documentary

Documentary about a Dutch soundsystem travelling from free party to free party.
Made in 2012 // Posted by CDTeK

Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future

There is no-one quite like Anselm Kiefer. Having achieved fame and notoriety in equal measure in the 1980s, he has become one of the world's most singular and successful artists. Working with themes of history, memory and mythology, Kiefer produces work that is consistently controversial, and monumental in its scale and ambition. In this imagine...Alan Yentob joins the artist at his studios in France and Germany as he prepares for a retrospective at the Royal Academy. In a series of frank interviews set against the backdrop of his awe-inspiring studios, Kiefer discusses the impact of his most significant pieces, installs a selection of new work, and explains why he is as excited and driven by his practice now, at the age of 69, as he was when he began.

There is 5 episodes of this docu.

Into the Soil | The Wisdom of Regenerative Farming

In the documentary ”Into the Soil” we follow Brigid LeFevre, who runs a community supported agriculture operation (CSO) in Järna, Sweden. In her biodynamic vegetable garden she focuses on fermenting the harvest in order to enrich it with nutritious lactic acid bacteria.
Brigid grew up in an anthroposophically inspired Camphill community in Northern Ireland where volunteers lived and worked together with people with special needs. It was a self-sufficient community where the local store brought in bulk organic produce and each household would write down their purchases – without any actual exchange of money.

Grote geldverdieners in de boerenbusiness | Tot op de bodem | De Avondshow (S3)

De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach | VPRO
Komend weekend zijn er weer boerenprotesten. Niet alleen de boeren hebben daar belang bij. We moeten het hebben over 'Agrireuzen'.

Punk Rock Vegan Movie

Punk Rock Vegan Movie is a feature-length documentary written and directed (and shot and scored) by Moby. It looks at the surprising history of punk rock and animal rights activism, features interviews with dozens of punk rock legends, and also cameos from Bagel the dog, the devil, and a boardroom of demons. It's the filmmaker and producers' hope that no one ever pays to see this movie, as it's a labor of love and activism.

Docu: De slag om het Maagdenhuis

De gevolgen van de Maagdenhuisbezetting houden de gemoederen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam nog altijd bezig. Inmiddels zit er een nieuw College van Bestuur, een direct gevolg van de acties en bezettingen, en werken verschillende commissies aan voorstellen voor een nieuwe universiteit. Folia reconstrueert in de documentaire De slag om het Maagdenhuis met alle hoofdrolspelers een jaar van protesten en de bezetting van twee universiteitsgebouwen die uiteindelijk leidden tot de val van collegevoorzitter Louise Gunning.

What would Jesus buy?

Since so often the apocalypse-making problems that shock us in the news every day would be solved by consuming less.... here is the 2007 film "What Would Jesus Buy?" Shopping the way that governments and corporations want us to shop - produces C02 emissions. That's the final Venal Sin here. It is bad for the Earth. But judging from the emails we get everyday from people who watch WWJB? on Netflix or Sundance, shopping less is good for people, too. Stop Shopping!
Reverend Billy & The StopShopping Choir

Green Gold - Documentary by John D. Liu

"It's possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems." Environmental film maker John D. Liu documents large-scale ecosystem restoration projects in China, Africa, South America and the Middle East, highlighting the enormous benefits for people and planet of undertaking these efforts globally.

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

A film on Climate Change, Degrowth and System Change. The effects and risks of climate change are compelling young people the world round to call upon radical system change as the only solution to avoid a catastrophic collapse. This film looks at the role economic growth has had in bringing about this crisis, and explores the alternatives to it, offering a vision of hope for the future and a better life for all within planetary boundaries.
Featuring Jason Hickel, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Wendy Harcourt, Giorgos Kallis, Marta Conde, Alnoor Ladha, Filka Sekulova, Federico Demaria, Rupert Read, Tokata Iron Eyes, Maria Marcet and Greta Thunberg. Original score by Marvin Dez and Oliver King

TraumaZone Part 1 - 1985 to 1989 (2022) by Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin.
Check this page for all 7 episodes.

Man grows ALL of his food on 750m2

Alik Pelman grows ALL of his food on only 750m2 (0.075 hectars \ 0.185 acres). To achieve this, it takes him only 8 hours of work per month, and uses only rain water for most of his crops. How does he do it, what does he eat, and what can we learn from him about self sufficiency? This we explore on this new film, which is episode 3 of the Eco no-mads series.

“Das ist unser Haus!”

Movie about the German Mietshäuser Syndikat.
Abut self-organized living and a solidarity-based economy!
Spoken in German, Dutch and English subtittles available.
Mietshäuser Syndikat website

HUMAN Extended version VOL.1

What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery? Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness.
Official website HUMAN

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way. Directors Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson have brought together stories from their travels, along with interviews with experts able to explain how we come to be where we are today. From forest gardens to composting toilets, community supported agriculture to timebanking, Living the Change offers ways we can rethink our approach to how we live.
More info on Happen Films

Amsterdam Climate Week:

Opening Panel Discussion with Noam Chomsky, Alicia Fall, John D. Liu...

Communities of hope - Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe

Communities of hope is a film born from a quest to discover a regenerative culture. It is an invitation to discover a new way of life. A way of life measured by the rhythms of nature, the depth of human connection, the vast horizon of human potential. It’s the way of life in ecovillages.
More info: communitiesofhopefilm.org // gen-europe.org // thegreatrelation.org

Seeds of Freedom

The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It’s been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost. It’s time to change the story.
Produced by The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, in collaboration with MELCA Ethiopia, Navdanya International and GRAIN.
Find out more at seedsoffreedom.info

Inside Job

Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the late 2000s financial crisis.
Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, says the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption". In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy, environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis.

A Farm for the Future

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family's farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key. Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.

Alles Flex

In the documentary ‘Alles Flex?’ (All Flex?) filmmakers Abel Heijkamp (NL) and Julij Borštnik (SI) explore the possible consequences of the current flexibilisation of our life-world.` ‘Alles Flex?’ is the first episode of a 4 part web documentary series The Future of Work.
Nederlands Gesproken, English subtitles

Vrankrix en het Amst€rdamse rijk

In Vrankrix en het Amst€rdamse rijk duikt de regisseur in de anarchistische, activistische undergroundscene in de binnenstad van Amsterdam: het bolwerk Vrankrijk.
Regie: Annegriet Wietsma

Squatting 2022: Squatting Continues!

In 'Squatting Continues!' VICE host Amarens Eggeraat follows the young activists of "Pak Mokum Terug", who took over an empty hotel in Amsterdam at the end of 2021, in spite of the ban on squatting.

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

"Life out of balance": that's what the North American Hopi express with the word koyaanisqatsi. Godfrey Reggio made this famous visual essay in 1982 (Collaborating with Philip Glass and co-screenwriter Ron Fricke) about life in North America.

Amsterdam from Emancipation Machine to Sorting Machine

Amsterdam, once a cradle of alternative culture, has changed its face by turning into a “Global City”. The city is characterised by temporary conditions, with a continuous turnover of people organised around the increasing shortage of long-term and affordable houses. Amsterdam is now a sorting machine where both newcomers and Amsterdammers are kicked out if not fitting in the frame of the creative, high-tech, fintech economy.

PAS OP DE VRIJPLAATS - Docu over Vrijplaatsenbeleid in Amsterdam

Met de film PAS OP DE VRIJPLAATS bevraagt ADEV het nieuwe vrijplaatsenbeleid van de gemeente Amsterdam, in samenwerking met filmmaker Floris Schäfer. Hoe ziet een vrijplaats met minder vrijheden en meer kosten eruit? Hoeveel regels gelden er en hoe worden die gehandhaafd? Waarom moet je in een vrijplaats kunnen werken én wonen? En vooral: wat nu? Aan het woord komen verschillende vrijplaatsbewoners, ervaringsdeskundigen en een woordvoerder van de gemeente Amsterdam. De wethouders weigerden medewerking.

Vrij beton - collectief eigendom

Promo video for the Amsterdam Alternative collective ownership project ‘Vrij Beton’.
Read more about this project on the Vrij Beton page.

Everything's coming together while everything's falling apart: The ZAD

The film on the ZAD focuses on Europe’s largest autonomous territory, located close to Nantes in France. The ZAD (zone to defend) emerged from the struggle against a new airport. In 2012 the French state's attempt to evict the zone was fiercely resisted by more than 40,000 people.
A film by Oliver Ressler

OCCII - A Documentary By Mehdi Tallal

Short documentary about concertspace the OCCII and Vereniging Binnenpret.

Our Forests | Timelapse in Google Earth

See how we have changed the forests of our planet since 1984 through a global time-lapse video.

Jim Jefferies -- Gun Control (Part 1)

Comedian Jim Jefferies breaks down the absurdity of America's obsession with guns. 
Watch part 2 here.

De Tussenruimte: Annelien de Dijn - Vrijheid en democratie na corona

Hoe is onze vrijheidsbeleving aan verandering onderhevig? Waar staan we nu? Hoe waarderen we vrijheid, en verstaan we er allemaal hetzelfde onder? Een gesprek met Annelien de Dijn, schrijfster van het monumentale boek Freedom. An unruly history.

Man Spends 30 Years Turning Degraded Land into Massive Forest – Fools & Dreamers (Full Documentary)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson.
http://foolsanddreamers.com​

Down to Earth

The film is about a Dutch couple that leave behind their cosmopolitan life and embark on the journey of a lifetime. They travel the ends of the earth searching for a new perspective on life. In their five-year journey across 6 continents, they live with some of the oldest indigenous communities on the planet. They gain access to tribal sages never interviewed before, without a crew or schedule, just one backpack and one camera each. And the curiosity to listen. A message of hope of the Wisdom Keepers of the Earth.
http://www.downtoearthfilm.com

De online fabeltjesfuik | Zondag met Lubach (S12)

Het wantrouwen richting de overheid en media groeit. En dat komt deels omdat op sociale media een heel circuit aan mensen langzaamaan een eigen parallelle werkelijkheid in wordt gezogen. En hoe langer mensen in die fuik zitten, hoe meer ze openstaan voor radicale ideeën die ze zelf nog niet hadden.

AA presents: We Are Not Sick - Sad By Design - Album Release Show

A little while ago (12 September 2020) we organized the ‘We are not sick’ album release show in the OT301.
We Are Not Sick is a joint effort by media theorist Geert Lovink and musician John Longwalker. Through this project they push for new modalities for both music and critical theory, to shake up both the dance floor and the lecture circuit. Check out the full performance and Q&A on YouTube.

The Superhuman World of Wim Hof: The Iceman

Almost everything Wim has done was previously thought to be impossible - but he’s not a freak of nature.