HoopDoop Magazine
HOOP DOOP TRAVEL (Mexico – Yucatan) – photo reportage by Martina Grmolenska.
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is a country in North America, lying between the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast. Its extensive coastlines include the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
More info: http://wikitravel.org/en/Mexico
‘MY PHAIR BABY” exhibition by Laura Andalou, the 23rd of May, at PHINTAGE by Helen Yard.
In her new solo exhibition Laura Andalou portrays 2 different women that each represent the characteristic women of PHINTAGE By Helen Yard and newborn PHINTAGE by Sharon, but the catch is, each in their opposite environments. What they have in common is their deliberated attitude towards life and their expressive appearance, described as ‘New Chic’.
EVENT:
Jewels by Cristel Ball
Drinks by Karakter Wijnimport
Music by Cristel Ball and Fritz The Face
More info: www.phintagebyhelenyard.com/
From 30th of June until the 22 September, EYE presents a major exhibition on Federico Fellini.
‘Fellini – The Exhibition’ unravels the filmmaker’s universe, taps into the sources of his fertile imagination and brings the vital power of his work into the limelight. 20 years after his death, large projected film fragments, photographs, archive documents and posters – from the EYE collection among others – provide insight into the obsessions and motivations of the man behind La strada, La dolce vita and 8½.
Federico Fellini (1920-1993), possibly the most famous filmmaker that Italy has ever produced, had a career that spans forty years. Those forty years yielded titles that have become forever ingrained in the memory of every film buff. The bellowing escape artist from La Strada (1954), the tormented high-society reporter from La dolce vita (1960), the tyrannical director with a whip from 8½ (1963) or the woman who lovingly clasps the young boy from the village between her large breasts: these figures have developed into archetypes of a universe that we have come to call ‘Fellinian’. A universe in which Fellini’s alter ego – played by Marcello Mastroianni on several occasions – turns up in ever changing guises and passes a parade of grotesque human weaknesses in revue.
Photo: Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni, La dolce vita, 1960 (Photo: Pierluigi, Christoph Schifferli Collection, Zürich, with thanks to the Fondation Pathé)
Play of appearances, a solo exhibition by Melanie Bosboom at C&H art space Amsterdam from the 18th of May until the 29th of June 2013.
In this photography series Melanie Bosboom plays with the viewer: she’s not a woman, she’s not a man and she uses dresses and clothes to camouflage herself. She takes the viewer into a playful world built by her fantasy where there isn’t a right or wrong. There is actually no image recognizable completely of the woman. Her characters are often covered with layers and layers of clothing, or hidden beneath coats, or in front of mirrors. Hiding and masking allows her to assume multiple identities in unusual circumstances and to play with ambiguities and contradictions. These two things fascinate her, especially the combination of them. What makes something male or female? How can an image provocative and challenging being at the same time vulnerable and fragile?
3 new exhibitions at Foam from the 14th of July: Stephen Gill – Best Before End, Monica Nouwens – Look At Me And Tell Me If You Have Known Me Before, Foam 3h: Lara Dhondt – Memento.
Stephen Gill – Best Before End
Gill’s most recent series Best Before End was created with the aid of energy drinks which resulted in fantastical, abstract and vividly coloured works that through their intensity reflect contemporary, hectic urban life. First, he placed objects in the camera before taking the photographs, as he had done in the previous series. The negatives were later immersed in the energy drinks, which made the images shift their positions, disruptions to appear and softened the film emulsion. This made it possible to manipulate the emulsion – to stretch it, move it, tear it and to separate the various layers of the film, which were then reworked with a soft brush.
Until the 14th of July 2013
The story of Sixto Rodriguez is really quite unbelievable. The sixth child of a working-class family, he recorded the albums Cold Fact in 1970 and Coming from Reality in 1971. Although both albums were true diamonds neither sold well and, as a result, Rodriguez’s music career came prematurely to a halt.
In the years that followed Rodriguez stayed in Detroit, doing hard manual labor and always being close to a state of poverty. His music, however, was becoming increasingly popular in Australia and South Africa, where his fame was comparable to Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. What is more, some of his songs would serve as antiApartheid anthems having a great influence upon several South African musicians.
Transcreen Film Festival review by Grazia Ingravalle – One Zero One.
TranScreen, Amsterdam’s queerest film festival could have never lost the opportunity to screen such a queer movie as One Zero One – the story of Cybersissy & BayBjane. If Judith Butler’s concept, “queer,” means kind of weird, bizarre, abject and deranged, definitely “indefinable” and eventually escaping the boundaries of the “recognized” subject/object – then we can well apply this definition also to Tim Lienhard’s movie. In fact, One Zero One, premiered on Thursday night at Cinema het Ketelhuis stylistically is truly queer. Not only the two protagonists of the narration are so, but also the very way the film is conceived brakes the bounds of film genres. Tim Lienhard borrows TV and videoclips’ eclectic language and throws at us a documentary that at the same time is also a fairy tale and a video-arty phantasmagoria.
One Zero One tells the story of the “life changing” meeting at the legendary gay club Lulu in Berlin between Antoine Timmermans, aka Cybersissy, and Mourad Z., BayBjane. The former is a Dutch artist that in 1994 invented and designed his stage-persona Cybersissy, boosting the parties of the most popular clubs in Europe. The latter is the multi-disabled son of Maroccan migrants in Germany, who became a world-renowned party-performer, BayBjane, thanks to the encounter with Antoine.
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Transcreen Film Festival review by Grazia Ingravalle – The opening…
The second edition of TranScreen Film Festival – 8-12 of May – started Wednesday at Cinema het Ketelhuis with a super rich programme of shorts, art-house films, road movies, documentaries, blockbusters, experimental animation, porns, workshops, exhibitions and especially galas (!) – all from a transgender perspective. This year’s programme boasts 34 filmslots structured in six sections: World Reports, Feeling Community, Mixed Abilities, STOP Pathologization, To see & be seen and Unambiguosly Intersex.
Nina Simone (A)Live is an intimate account of Nina Simone’s life story and personal relationship with music. Seen through the perspective of seven different artists/actors/performers (Sabrina Starke, Hans Dagelet, Wudstik, Aisa Winter, DJ LOVE SUPREME, Liesbeth Peroti and Alvin Lewis), the peculiar universe of Nina Simone is being explored and presented in a way that combines music with a wide range of original tricks and theatrical devices.
Throughout the performance, cast and audience alike are engaged in a continuous search for Nina Simone. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on 21st February 1933, she was a child piano prodigy who would also evolve into a singer, songwriter, arranger, and civil rights activist in the decades to come.
