Radio/K invites: Sprouts Film Festival
This edition of Radio/K will feature Sprouts Film Festival, a yearly fiction film festival and running contemporary ecocinema archive. In a world marked by glitches, extreme weather, and escalating conflicts, it’s easy to look away. But at Sprouts, they believe cinema can be a platform for peaceful protest. For the fourth year, Sprouts is showcasing a lineup of newly released ecocinema and socially critical debut films. All selected works—both features and shorts—are fiction, as we believe in the power of imagination to inspire positive change and reframe our relationship with the more-than-human world. We are here to make you wonder, inform you, spark resistance, and nurture emerging talent.
Food:
18:00-21:30 TasteBeforeYouWaste pop-up kitchen
The dinner served at the festival is provided by the Taste Before You Waste foundation. Taste Before You Waste is a foundation that aims to reduce consumer food waste and promote sustainable food practices in Amsterdam. TBYW aims to raise awareness of the impact of food waste on the environment and social environment and encourages individuals and companies to take action. That is why the foundation shows that leftover food from events does not have to be wasted at all, but is still perfectly edible! The mission of Taste Before You Waste is to create a more just and sustainable food system, for everyone by serving consciousness on a platters, one film festival at a time.
Line-up:
18:00-18:15 Werner de Valk
Songs of the Horizon Amsterdam laat ons luisteren naar de horizon, door het lijnenspel te vertalen tot soundscapes. De toestand van het landschap bepaalt hoe ze klinkt; bij mist of schemer hoor je een ander klanklandschap. De horizonnen van Amsterdam Oost worden zo omgezet in muziek. Deze video-installatie nodigt bezoekers uit om hun relatie met deze horizonnen opnieuw te ontdekken.
18:25 – 18:40 Anna Henry ‘Que rêvez-vous ?’
This film explores the dreams that activists involved with the Bâtiment 7 collective have had about the environmental crisis and how to make sense of them. Through images, sounds and voices recorded in Bâtiment 7, the film explores the role of dreams in environmental struggles. It asks how we can understand dreams as a collective and how dream-sharing practices can foster the imagination necessary to help us reimagine our environments and our relations to the latter. The film was made in collaboration with members and activists involved with the Bâtiment 7, a community center fostering social and environmental justice in Montreal.
18:50 – 19:10 Willem Jansen (live) on Anna Henry’s ‘Dreaming the end is like drawing a beginning’
This project invites the viewer to delve into a disintegrating visual environment where the environmental crisis manifests itself through the decomposing shapes and colors, leading us in a dream-like landscape. The film was edited without a soundtrack – it only comes to life when screened alongside an improvised live musical performance.
Anna Henry – biography
Anna Henry is currently a master student in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. During their undergraduate degree at McGill university, they started using experimental ethnographic methodologies (such as film and sound) as part of their research process. Their work thus lies in between ethnographic, documentary and experimental cinema. With the support of McGill’s Critical Media Lab, Anna directed two short films as part of their undergraduate thesis, exploring the role of dreams in environmental imaginations.
