BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25579@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:🎬 MOONS OF CAVIA | Documenting Absence: De toekomst is failliet + D o You Love Me + VHS Jam Session DTSTAMP:20260804T182659Z DTSTART:20260903T160000Z DESCRIPTION:During the first weekend of September\, we will be hosting the seventh edition of\nour outdoor film festival\, featuring not only Oscar-n ominated features and local\neye-opening shorts\, but also music\, food an d performance\, making for a truly\nspecial experience.  Once again\, we w ill try to spotlight some of the diversity\nthat makes up Cavia’s many ide ntities\, celebrating a year of incredible moments\nfor our small cinema.  \n\n→ Van Hallstraat 52\, Amsterdam + follow the signs!\n\nClick HERE [htt ps://filmhuiscavia.nl/programma/moons-of-cavia-2026] for the full\nprogram me.\n\n\n----------------------------------------\n \n\nDOCUMENTING ABSENC E: \nDe toekomst is failliet + Do You Love Me + VHS Jam Session\n\n\nThe o pening night of Moons presents two films which converse about the loss of\ npersonal histories through the disappearance and destruction of (urban)\n infrastructure. In the search of remembering fractured and fuzzy memories\ , or\nintentionally hidden histories\, both films engage directly with the power of\narchives.\n\nSuzzane Koopstra's short magic-realist documentary De toekomst is failiet\nfollows Bep and Tinus\, two elders who have been capturing the disappearance of\ntheir neighbourhoods over the last 60 year s. By digging through their personal\narchives and photographic albums\, t he film offers a unique glimpse into\nRotterdam's rapid gentrification and housing crisis.\n\nLara Daher's Do You Love Me reconstructs the fragmente d collective memory of\nLebanon\, by panning through 70 years of film\, TV \, home videos\, and photography\nfrom private collections and abandoned a rchives. In the words of Lara Daher "In\nour schools\, we have no shared h istory book\, our past remains unspoken. This\nabsence pushed me to the ar chives to search\, collect\, and listen—to understand\nnot only what came before\, but our present."\n\nAlongside the double-bill\, visitors will be able to interact with Cavia's own\nVHS archive\, a collection gathered ov er years which includes festival\nsubmissions\, experimental films\, under ground oddities\, and homemade tape\ncompilations\, among many others. Thi s will be set up by the Archive Jam\nSessions\, preceding the screenings.\ n\n \n\nDE TOEKOMST IS FAILLIET\nSuzzane Koopstra | 2024 | NL | 27’ | Dutc h\, EN subtitles \n\nThe endless Rotterdam construction pit unfolds as a m oving spectacle for the\nvery last time. Amidst a desolate backdrop where once the lost city resurrected\nfrom the rubble\, the earth swaps itself f or a shiny skyline in a whimsy\npermanent longing for the new and the bett er. In a race against the clock\, Bep\nand Tinus persist in making their l ast attempt to capture that elusive time\, by\nchasing it with their camer a.\n\n+\n\nDO YOU LOVE ME \nLara Daher | 2025 | Lebanon\, France\, Germany \, Qatar | 75’ | EN subtitles\n\nDo You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon's audiovisual\nmemory\, composed entirely of archi val footage. It is a love letter to Beirut\,\nspanning 70 years of film\, TV\, home videos\, and photography\, exploring the\nLebanese collective ps yche - marked by joy and intimacy\, destruction and loss.\nThrough the eye s of citizens\, filmmakers and artists\, the film reconstructs a\nfragment ed history in a country without a national archive\, celebrating creative\ nexpression as both resistance\, renewal and a way to preserve memory.\n\n +\n\nVHS JAM SESSION\n\nThe Archive Jam Session hands Filmhuis Cavia's VHS archive over to the audience.\nA participatory method for exploring it co llectively and horizontally\, one night\nat a time. The audience becomes c o-curator\, sifting through decades of tape to\nbuild something live and s hared.\nAround the space\, TVs and videocassette players turn into preview stations. In\nsmall groups\, participants search the archive\, chasing a title\, a label\, a\nhunch\, then gather at a station to watch what they f ind. From hours of footage\,\neach group cuts fifteen minutes: a few fragm ents\, rewound and primed to the\nchosen moments.\nThen the big screen tak es over. One by one\, groups step up and press play.\nWithout a script\, f ragment meets fragment\, image answers image\, and something\nclicks: a ja m session made of images instead of sound\, each riff building on the\nlas t. Along the way\, a glimpse of everything that lives inside Cavia's archi ve.\n\n\nFull programme:\n\n18:00 | Doors open\n\n18:30 | Soup dinner\n\n1 9:00 | VHS Archive Jam Session\n\n21:00 | De toekomst is failliet\n\n21:45 | Do You Love Me\n  URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/moons-of-cavia-or-documenting-absence-d e-toekomst-is-failliet-do-you-love-me-vhs-jam-session GEO:52.381974;4.8703107 LOCATION:Filmhuis Cavia - Van Hallstraat 52-1\, 1051 HH Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-west,bar/cafe,books,dinner,documentary,experimental,fe stivals,film,food,jam session,live,music,opening,performance,shorts,staats liedenbuurt X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

During the first weekend of September, we w ill be hosting the seventh edition of our outdoor film festival, featuring not only Oscar-nominated features and local eye-opening shorts, but also music, food and performance, making for a truly special experience.  Once again, we will try to spotlight some of the diversity that makes up C avia’s many identities, celebrating a year of incredible moments for our s mall cinema. 

→ Van Hallstraat 52, Amsterdam + follow the s igns!

Click HERE for the full progr amme.



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DOCUMENTING ABSENCE: 
De toekomst is failliet + Do You Love Me + VHS Jam Session


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The opening night of Moons presents two films which converse about t he loss of personal histories through the disappearance and destruction of (urban) infrastructure. In the search of remembering fractured and fuzzy memories, or intentionally hidden histories, both films engage directly wi th the power of archives.

Suzzane Koopstra's short magic-realist do cumentary De toekomst is failiet follows Bep and Tinus, two elder s who have been capturing the disappearance of their neighbourhoods over t he last 60 years. By digging through their personal archives and photograp hic albums, the film offers a unique glimpse into Rotterdam's rapid gentri fication and housing crisis.

Lara Daher's Do You Love Me r econstructs the fragmented collective memory of Lebanon, by panning throug h 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography from private collecti ons and abandoned archives. In the words of Lara Daher "In our schools, we have no shared history book, our past remains unspoken. This absence push ed me to the archives to search, collect, and listen—to understand not onl y what came before, but our present."

Alongside the double-bill, vi sitors will be able to interact with Cavia's own VHS archive, a collection gathered over years which includes festival submissions, experimental fil ms, underground oddities, and homemade tape compilations, among many other s. This will be set up by the Archive Jam Sessions, preceding the screenin gs.

 


DE TOEKOMST IS FAILLIET
Su zzane Koopstra | 2024 | NL | 27’ | Dutch, EN subtitles 


The endless Rotterdam construction pit unfolds as a moving spectacle for the very last time. Amidst a desolate backdrop where once the lost city resurr ected from the rubble, the earth swaps itself for a shiny skyline in a whi msy permanent longing for the new and the better. In a race against the cl ock, Bep and Tinus persist in making their last attempt to capture that el usive time, by chasing it with their camera.

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DO YOU LOVE ME 
Lara Daher | 2025 | Lebanon, France, German y, Qatar | 75’ | EN subtitles

Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon's audiovisual memory, composed entire ly of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years o f film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collectiv e psyche - marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the e yes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film reconstructs a fragmente d history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative ex pression as both resistance, renewal and a way to preserve memory.

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VHS JAM SESSION


The Archive Jam Ses sion hands Filmhuis Cavia's VHS archive over to the audience. A participat ory method for exploring it collectively and horizontally, one night at a time. The audience becomes co-curator, sifting through decades of tape to build something live and shared.
Around the space, TVs and videocassett e players turn into preview stations. In small groups, participants search the archive, chasing a title, a label, a hunch, then gather at a station to watch what they find. From hours of footage, each group cuts fifteen mi nutes: a few fragments, rewound and primed to the chosen moments.
Then the big screen takes over. One by one, groups step up and press play. With out a script, fragment meets fragment, image answers image, and something clicks: a jam session made of images instead of sound, each riff building on the last. Along the way, a glimpse of everything that lives inside Cavi a's archive.


Full programme:


18:00 | Doors open


18:30 | Soup dinner


19:00 | VHS Archive Ja m Session


21:00 | De toekomst is failliet


21:45 | Do Y ou Love Me
 

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