IDFA 2000
Beeldenstorm
Icono-clasm/A Storm of Images
Johan van der Keuken
Netherlands
1982
85 min
n.a.
In the late seventies, De Melkweg was built in Amsterdam. A unique venue for music, dance, theatre and film, and also an outstanding and multicultural meeting place for visitors from all over the world. At the beginning of this documentary, Van der Keuken calls De Melkweg ‘a place where people can sit, hear things and do things.’ He alternates images from concerts with sober still lives of a lamp, a table corner or an empty café. In the street outside, he films junkies and walks around with a British man, who has settled in Amsterdam and thinks that more people should be engaged in art. Van der Keuken labelled this fragmentarily edited film ‘a Melkweg-in-film, a fictional space that the world rolls through and where a number of lives meet.’
Credits
Screening copy
Lucid Eye Films
Lucid Eye Films
Distribution
Idéale Audience
Idéale Audience
World Sales
Idéale Audience
Idéale Audience
Cinematography
Sound
Music
Au Pairs,
The Bloods,
Steve Lacy,
Jango Edwards,
Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Tuxedo Moon,
Footsbarn Theatre,
Basement 5
Au Pairs,
The Bloods,
Steve Lacy,
Jango Edwards,
Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Tuxedo Moon,
Footsbarn Theatre,
Basement 5
Production
Frans Rasker,
NOS, Journaal - Planning,
Melkweg,
Ministery of Culture
Frans Rasker,
NOS, Journaal - Planning,
Melkweg,
Ministery of Culture