Ceuvel Cinema: AZART, COME MAKE ART

Ceuvel Cinema: AZART, COME MAKE ART

What: Screening of the film ‘AZART, COME MAKE ART’

When: Friday 20 March

Times: 19:30 doors open, 19:45 film starts (please arrive on time), 21:15 end.

Language: Multiple spoken languages (Dutch, Spanish, English, French).
English subtitles.

Tickets: Ticket price is €7.50. This supports the filmmakers. Reserve your spot here.

Do you have a City Pass (green dot) or a low income? You are welcome to use a free ticket. To request one, email tessa@deceuvel.nl

Where: On the Crossboat

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About the film

A film about the art of navigating life, about hope, and seeing life as an adventure!

The Amsterdam “Ship of Fools” Azart, The Ship of Fools, sailed the world for 33 years as a floating work of art, bringing joy and theatre. Life artist Captain August Dirks wanted to retrace the VOC route, but in a very different way: “Not to steal and slaughter, but to play and share.” When he becomes seriously ill, the ship sets course for one final (spectacular!) mooring. The film tells the colourful and joyful history of the ship Azart, starring Captain August, who lived and worked on this adventure ship all those years. By now, the ship has run aground, literally, on a South American beach, where its wondrous story still continues, led by a local theatre group. Amsterdam’s Azartplein is named after this “ship of fools.”

About the makers

Since 2017, Annike Kaljouw has followed the ship with her film camera. In Cape Verde she saw how quickly August connected with local people, and how the ship had a magnetic pull on so many different kinds of people. August strikes a universal chord.

Masha Novikova lived on the ship and sailed with it in the 1980s: “I took everything seriously; all the problems and obstacles seemed dramatic to me. From August I learned to see things differently. Lighter. Everything will work out on its own, he often said.”

Reserve your spot here.
Do you have a low income/City Pass (green dot)? There are 5 free tickets available. Email tessa@deceuvel.nl

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