MOONS OF CAVIA outdoor cinema 🎬 Man with a Movie Camera (1929) with live soundtrack by Minute Made Music + Afterparty by DJ Pink Tweaks

As another year passes in our small but enduring cinema, Cavia is ready to host the sixth edition of Moons, our outdoor festival of film, performance, food, and, more than anything else, community. This year we want to look inward at the many Moons that make up Cavia’s sky. 

Filmhuis Cavia means collective, it stands for the ability of many different identities to stand together, in solidarity. Through our program this year we will try to represent some of the principles that guide us, as an act of collective reflection between the cinema and its many communities. This exercise has led us to what is maybe one of the most exciting and rich programs ever!

Full programme and more info: HERE

Man with a Movie Camera w/ live soundtrack by Minute Made Music
+ Afterparty by DJ Pink Tweaks

For one evening, at the 2025 Moons open air film festival at Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam’s very own Minute Maid Music’s Oscar Jan Hoogland, Andy Moor and Uldis Vitols will assemble. Together, they will bring an improvised score to Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929). Oscar plays the electric clavichord, Andy on the electric guitar and Uldis on the bass synth and electronics. Get ready for an experimental urban symphony at Cavia! After the screening, stick around for a funky afterparty with DJ Pink Tweaks.
 

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Restored version)
Dziga Vertov | 1929 | USSR | 68’ | no dialogue

Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film. It shows a man travelling around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. The film was intended as a visual argument for the place of the documentary filmmaker as a worker, educator, and eyewitness in a proletariat society. It is an impressionistic view of urban daily life, seen from a purely cinematic perspective. Man with a Movie Camera is known for its groundbreaking range of cinematic techniques used – which, in that time, were usually limited. Vertov invented some, developed others, such as multiple exposure, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, split screens and more. Safe to say that this film changed filmmaking for good.

In 2015, the film's only known complete cut of the film was restored by Eye Filmmuseum, here in Amsterdam, with additional digital work by Lobster Films. It is this wonderfully restored version that we will be watching and enjoying in an outdoor garden, along with Minute Maid Music’s funky tunes.

MINUTE MADE MUSIC

Wir lieben Echtzeitmusik. We love Instant Composers. Aber jetzt gibts auch Minute Made Music!

After their first victorious concert at BIMHUIS 50th anniversary, this group of artists brought together by Oscar Jan Hoogland, continues their trip. For Filmhuis Cavia, three of them will assemble. Standing on the shoulders of Amsterdams rich and notorious tradition of jazz and improvised music they go ahead into the future. The city is bursting of improvised music in dialogue with sexy cumbia, political post punk (The Ex), dada-esque performance art, live electronics, acoustic chamber music and more. In Minute Made Music all of these meet in the modular concept of the group. Minute Made Music is both a program and a band.

Oscar Jan Hoogland – electric clavichord
Andy Moor – electric guitar
Uldis Vitols – bass synth and electronics

Get a taste of what Minute Maid Music sounds like to get in the mood, HERE.

DJ PINK TWEAKS

Rooted in the warmth of Neapolitan grooves and the pulse of percussion, Pink Tweaks weaves through funk, soul, Italo disco, and synth-driven sounds with a deep love for storytelling and human connection. Now diving deeper into the worlds of leftfield electronics, UK bass, experimental club, and genre-blurring dance music, Pink Tweaks crafts sets that feel both playful and intentional – an invitation to explore, move, and feel together.

Every set is a journey across rhythms and borders, blending joyful experimentation with a sense of togetherness on the dancefloor. Expect unexpected turns, emotional peaks, and a sound that celebrates curiosity as much as community.


Full programme:

Doors open at 20:00
21:30 - 23:00 | Man with a Movie Camera w/ live improvised soundtrack by Minute Made Music
23:00 - 03:00 | DJ Pink Tweaks in Cavia foyer