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SUMMARY:WAT WAS HIE?
DTSTAMP:20260828T024214Z
DTSTART:20261008T180000Z
DESCRIPTION:Film screening and conversation on colonialism\, slavery\, and 
	restorative\njustice.\n\nWAT WAS HIE? unfolds across the landscapes of the
	 Cape\, where land\, water\, and\nmemory bear witness to what history has 
	tried to bury. Retracing entangled\nhistories of Dutch colonialism\, Indig
	enous erasure\, resistance\, and slavery\, the\nfilm moves through sites o
	nce inhabited and stewarded by San and Khoe\ncommunities\, revealing how t
	hese histories remain inscribed in the terrain.\n\nThrough embodied re-ena
	ctment\, movement\, and poetic reflection\, and drawing from\nstories of K
	rotoa\, slave registers\, and the lingering traces of the dop system\,\nsu
	ppressed histories resurface as living presence.\n\nWAT WAS HIE? asks a se
	aring question: What was here?—inviting a reckoning with\nmemory\, healing
	\, and the persistence of colonial violence in both land and body.\n\nAwar
	ds:\nStorytelling Award at the imagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival – Canad
	a (2026)\n\nEncounters Youth Experience (EYE) Award for Best African Short
	 Film at the\nEncounters South African International Documentary Festival 
	(2026)\n\nOver Luke De Kock\n\nLuke De Kock is een Zuid-Afrikaanse regisse
	ur\, filmmaker\, choreograaf en\nperforming artist die lokaal en internati
	onaal werkt op het snijvlak van film en\nperformance. Zijn choreografie wa
	s te zien in producties als Honey 3 (Universal\nPictures) en Netflix’ Runs
	 In The Family\, en hij werkte voor merken als Adidas\,\nBMW en Hennessy. 
	Daarnaast trad hij op met o.a. Toni Braxton en John Legend. Hij\nis afgest
	udeerd aan Jazzart Dance Theatre en de University of Cape Town (Theatre\na
	nd Performance) en staat bekend om zijn site-specific werk waarin hij inhe
	emse\ngeschiedenis\, Cape slavery en koloniale uitwissing bevraagt. Eerder
	e projecten\nwerden gepresenteerd bij o.a. het Castle of Good Hope\, Iziko
	 South Africa Museum\nen tijdens internationale samenwerkingen zoals Sites
	 of Memory en AfroVibes\nFestival in Nederland.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/wat-was-hie
GEO:52.376857;4.9220756
LOCATION:Pakhuis de Zwijger - Piet Heinkade 179\, 1019 HC Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,colonialism,community,creative industries,danc
	e,documentary,eastern docklands,festivals,film,performance,stories,theater
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Film screening and conversation on colonialism
	, slavery, and restorative justice. <p>WAT WAS HIE? unfolds across the lan
	dscapes of the Cape, where land, water, and memory bear witness to what hi
	story has tried to bury. Retracing entangled histories of Dutch colonialis
	m, Indigenous erasure, resistance, and slavery, the film moves through sit
	es once inhabited and stewarded by San and Khoe communities, revealing how
	 these histories remain inscribed in the terrain.</p> <p>Through embodied 
	re-enactment, movement, and poetic reflection, and drawing from stories of
	 Krotoa, slave registers, and the lingering traces of the dop system, supp
	ressed histories resurface as living presence.</p> <p>WAT WAS HIE? asks a 
	searing question: What was here?—inviting a reckoning with memory, healing
	, and the persistence of colonial violence in both land and body.</p>   <p
	><strong>Awards:</strong><br> <em>Storytelling Award at the imagineNATIVE 
	Media + Arts Festival – Canada (2026)</em></p> <p><em>Encounters Youth Exp
	erience (EYE) Award for Best African Short Film at the Encounters South Af
	rican International Documentary Festival (2026)</em></p>   <p><strong>Over
	 Luke De Kock</strong></p> <p><strong>Luke De Kock</strong> is een Zuid-Af
	rikaanse regisseur, filmmaker, choreograaf en performing artist die lokaal
	 en internationaal werkt op het snijvlak van film en performance. Zijn cho
	reografie was te zien in producties als <em>Honey 3</em> (Universal Pictur
	es) en Netflix’ <em>Runs In The Family</em>, en hij werkte voor merken als
	 Adidas, BMW en Hennessy. Daarnaast trad hij op met o.a. Toni Braxton en J
	ohn Legend. Hij is afgestudeerd aan Jazzart Dance Theatre en de University
	 of Cape Town (Theatre and Performance) en staat bekend om zijn site-speci
	fic werk waarin hij inheemse geschiedenis, Cape slavery en koloniale uitwi
	ssing bevraagt. Eerdere projecten werden gepresenteerd bij o.a. het Castle
	 of Good Hope, Iziko South Africa Museum en tijdens internationale samenwe
	rkingen zoals Sites of Memory en AfroVibes Festival in Nederland.</p>
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