The Queer Image

At every screening, Nieuwe Vide invites a maker who will present a visual work inspired by the themes of the film. Think of performance art, video art, or an artist talk. We will also organize an introduction or discussion for each film and invite you to have drinks in the Schuurcafé and meet members of the community and the makers.

Upcoming:

2nd of December #6: All Shall Be Well & Declaring my multitudes (Marijn Kuijper)
On Monday, December 2nd, we’ll screen All Shall Be Well, preceded by Declaring my Multitudes by Marijn Kuijper, and followed by a discussion in our café. Tickets

Nieuwe Vide’s Choice
Declaring my multitudes (2023) is an artist-video about love, family, queer identity and belonging. In this diary like work Marijn talks about how they navigate the world as a queer parent, a trans person, and someone with multiple lovers. The video expresses the desire to move beyond comprehension and coherence when it comes to presenting oneself to the world.

   

About the artist:

Marijn Kuijper (they/them) is a visual artist who takes their personal life as the starting point for their work. Marijn doesn’t care much for labels and refuses to fit into them. Their work is about navigating the patriarchy as a queer person, having a trans body, being a parent in a non-conforming family and having relationships with multiple partners. With their work, Marijn wants to stretch people’s ideas of what is perceived as normal and acceptable when it comes to relationships, family and bodily autonomy.

Marijn graduated at Royal Academy of Art in 2018, where they studied photography (parttime). In 2021/2022 they received the Artist Start Grant by the Mondriaan Fund.

Schuur’s Choice

Angie and Pat are a 60-year-old couple enjoying their life filled with family and friends in Hong Kong. They have lived together in Pat’s apartment for over thirty years, and the two women are beloved by those around them. However, when Pat suddenly passes away, it becomes clear that the close bond Angie shared with Pat’s family is not as unconditional as she had believed. In a period of mourning, Angie begins a struggle for dignity, acceptance, and the preservation of the home she shared with her beloved.

All Shall Be Well is a moving and nuanced portrait of love, loss, and resilience, delicately illustrating how, under pressure, tolerance can waver. The film won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale.

Tickets
Discountcode for queer community: THEQUEERIMAGE (6,75)

Where? Schuur, Haarlem
Date/Time: 2.12.2024 18:45
Subtitles All shall be well: Engels

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September 9th: The Queer Image #5 – I Saw The TV Glow & Grandmamauntsistercat

Schuur’s Choice: I Saw The TV Glow
Teenager Owen (Justice Smith) struggles with himself and with his life in an American suburb in the nineties. One day his classmate Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) introduces him to a scary and mysterious tv show which shines a (pink neon) on a supernatural world existing beneath the real one. It will change Owen’s view on the world forever. When the show suddenly ends, it also means a sudden shift in Owen and Maddy’s friendship.

I Saw the TV Glow is a tribute to the magic of nineties television and was made for everyone who has ever felt ‘different.’ With an amazing soundtrack featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Alex G and many others.

Vide’s Choice:  Grandmamauntsistercat (Zuza Banasińska)

Created from archival materials of the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, the film tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propagandistic tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a site of auto-fictional memory, its scientific register shifted toward a treatment of the images themselves as specimens.

The classic Slavic witch figure, Baba Yaga, is reimagined as a prehistoric goddess from the time of matriarchy. This transformation provokes layered reflections on kinship and identity as the child navigates binary gender roles. The women of the family find a home in the archive, engaging in a process of self and world-making that transforms the often sexist and anthropocentric images into tools of freedom and resistance.

Zuza Banasińska is an artist and filmmaker from Warsaw, currently based in Amsterdam. In their essay films and installations, they animate spectral realities sedimented within archives, investigating processes of standardized knowledge production. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Their works have been shown in spaces such as the U-Jazdowski CCA in Warsaw, Dům Umění Mesta Brna in Brno, and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, among others. Their work is currently supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Netherlands Film Fund, and Stimuleringsfonds, and is distributed by Video Power and EYE Filmmuseum.

Tickets via  Schuur 

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July 8th – The Queer Image #4 : Femme & The Sixth Element

On Monday, July 8, we will screen the film Femme as a preview, during a new edition of The Queer Image, our queer special, a collaboration between Schuur & Nieuwe Vide. Before and after the film you can enjoy a performance by drag performer The Sixth Element.

Schuur’s Choice: Femme 

Jules, better known by the stage name Aphrodite Banks, is one of London’s most acclaimed drag queens. When he buys a pack of cigarettes in the neighborhood after a drag show, he is attacked by a group of homophobic young men. While Jules tries to process his trauma, he recognizes one of his attackers in the gay sauna he regularly visits. Without his make-up, he manages to approach the boy incognito. The meeting is the start of a dangerous (revenge) game.
Femme Tickets

Nieuwe Vide Performance: The Sixth Element

The Sixth Element (she/they) is a en3ty that Kevin Pieterse created. One that lives inside their head, She is the medium through which Kevin emotes and performs their feelings. Her big yearning is to unite us in our sadness and make us feel something that we might think we’ve lost, to connect to our inner neglected child. “Sixth is my muse in every way, the most glamorous melancholy you’ll meet on stage.” “In a society that revolves around individualism, I search for the communal feeling.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tickets
Queer Community discountcode: thequeerimage 50% off

 

 

 

 

Photo: Lisa Schamle

April 8th – The Queer Image #3: Love Lies Bleeding (premièr) & Aurélien Lepetit – a (video) studio visit & after talk
Start #3 : 20.30h
Film: 20:45h

Love Lies Bleeding – In a remote new Mexico Town, gym manager Lou’s life turned upside down with the arrival of bodybuilder Jackie. Jackie, who works at Lou’s criminal father’s shooting range, is dead set on entering a major body building competition in Las Vegas and Lou is all too eager to help her reach this goal. The two lovebirds’ happiness is rudely awakened after Lou’s sister suffer severe physical abuse. Things get out of hand quickly and Lou is forced to face her family’s violent past head on.

Aurélien Lepetit, born in 1992 in Lyon, France, is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Working with installations, sculptures and textiles he currently uses weaving, and wool on aluminum as painting. Lepetit is best known for his tufted textiles of damaged muscle fibers and constricted hand blown glass sculptures mounted on steel technical sports equipment.

For this premier, Bernardo Zanotta and Aurélien Lepetit have recorded a special interview. Following the film, Lepetit, Anne Mul and the audience will have a post-viewing conversation.

March 4th – The Queer Image #2: Loss of Heat & Drive Away Dolls

In celebration of Queer History Month, Nieuwe Vide proudly presents the second edition of The Queer Image, pairing a pioneering lhbtiq+* short film with the release of Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cooke’s Drive Away Dolls.

Queer History Month is an annual month-long observance of  lhbtiq+ history and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements. For this occasion, we have chosen Loss of Heat (1994, 20 min) by Noski Deville. The film is an evocative portrayal of queer love, exploring the interplay of the emotional and the physical across boundaries of sexuality, dependence, and desire. Noski Deville (United Kingdom) is a cinematographer and film artist working across film, music, and sound. Deville has over 25 years of experience as a cinematographer and is well known for her award-winning work with internationally acclaimed artists, including Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Alia Syed, Daria Martin, and Jananne Al-Ani.

The short film will be followed by De Schuur’s release of Drive Away Dolls (2024, 84 min). The first of a trilogy of queer films written by Tricia Cooke and Ethan Cohen, Drive Away Dolls takes the form of a road movie in which Jamie and Marian embark on an unexpected trip to Tallahassee, crossing paths with a group of inept criminals. An introduction by filmmaker and programmer Bernardo Zanotta will precede the screening. 

 

On the 22nd of January 19:00h, De Schuur will show the film ‘Orlando‘ and Nieuwe Vide will see a piece from Wild Fruits, Zanotta’s new short film, and hear from Zanotta about queer ‘period pieces.’ Afterwards we will have a short conversation about what we saw and the connections that can be made between Wild Fruits and Orlando.

In addition to his autonomous filmmaker and artist practice, Bernardo develops and supervises projects for Nieuwe Vide. For example, he coordinated the ongoing Nieuwe Vide program Cineclub and the course, From idea to project. In collaboration with curator Anne Mul and Schuur, Zanotta will, along with others, give shape to The Queer Image film program.

Bernardo Zanotta (1996, Brazil) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Amsterdam. His films combine historical and fictional stories that subvert genre and convention. His work has been exhibited internationally at art venues, cinemas and festivals, including FID Marseille, Rotterdam and Locarno, where he received the Pardino d’Argento for his film Heart of Hunger (2018). In addition to short and medium projects, he is currently developing his first feature film.

Wild fruit synopsis

16th century: After a period overseas in the Antarctic France, Jean Aurand finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever.