Dutch-Flemish Kultfeszt

Posted by steve istvan csikos on March 6, 2008, 2:55 pm in announcements

The LOW Festival brings a variety of Dutch and Flemish contemporary arts, performing arts, fine arts, classic, jazz and pop music, design, theatre, and films to Hungary for a month in February and March 2008. The name of the festival alludes to the Low Countries, the region encompassing the Netherlands and Flanders.

Festival events take place at over 20 locations in Budapest and include approximately 500 performers and 100 performances. The exhibitions and performances will be held from the 15th of February until the 12th of March.

Dutch-Flemish Children Programme
De Stilte
08-03-2008 / 10:00 - 17:00
Millenáris Theater

In Dutch, Madcap, or Speelvogels means “playing children”. A splendid word for a splendid activity: children at play. For a child, playing alone, and especially playing with others, puts a face to reality. In Madcap three dancers enter the stage to take their place in a game, to share their imagination and to confirm their friendship. Children effortlessly become a part of this dance.

Le Bal Moderne
08-03-2008 / 17:00
Millenáris Inn

Created in 1993 by Michel Reilhac, former director of the Forum des Images in Paris, the Flemish Le Bal Moderne has proved an unprecedented success.

Film Festival: Les ballets de ci de là - Alain Platel
08-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum

In this full-length documentary, Alain Platel celebrates the essence of the peculiar human characteristics which have been fuelling the work of Les Ballets C. de la B. for the past twenty years. Who are the dancers of Les Ballets C. de la B.? Where do they come from? And how do they transcend the world on stage? A film filled with impressions, focusing on a unique company in the world of live dance. An emotional voyage which allows us to share the artistic and human adventure of Les Ballets C. de la B.

Film Festival: Wolfsbergen - Nanouk Leopold
08-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
09-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin

Set in present-day Holland, screenwriter/director Nanouk Leopold's third feature is the story of a family going through testing times, as four generations come head to head when, following the death of his wife, the father of the family decides to commit suicide, warning his children beforehand. Wolfbergen is a film about people who seem to have lost the ability to love and to be loved. It is a kaleidoscopic portrayal of four generations of a family and their struggle to reach out to one another.

Cinetrip Sparty - Flying Dutchman
Amira, CJ Bolland (FL), Funckarma (NL), Grasshop b2b Marvin, Haze, Kaszi and Jácint, Mango, Negro (Deep), Palotai (Tilos), Sanyi (Cinetrip), Superman, Waxman (Tilos)
08-03-2008 / 21:00
Rudas Bath

To bring the panorama full circle - sounds and moving images on lowland-high in the air and in deep water within the framework of Low Festival - Cinetrip Sparty–Journeys by Djuice provides the ambience for bathing and cleansing with the works of Dutch and Flemish audio and visual artists.

Lolly Jane Blue, Roosbeef, Péterfy Bori & Love Band
Bori Péterfy & Love Band, Lolly Jane Blue, Roosbeef
08-03-2008 / 21:00
A38 Ship

Tonight it’s Ladies Night: together with the Hungarian Bori Péterfy, two young Dutch artists, Roosbeef and Lolly Jane Blue take the stage. They might best be described as “singer/songwriters”, a genre that all too infrequently crosses national borders.

Film Festival: 4 elements - Jiska Rickels
09-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
10-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin

Since the beginning of time the human race tried to explain the primal elements of their world: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. During the development of mankind they were deciphered; the force of the elements were used, however, they were never totally dominated, controlled or predicted. Today we are still fighting to control earth, water, fire, and air. Four chapters documentary about people who work with the four elements, where fellowship and trust are of existential importance: Siberian smokejumpers, the fishermen of the Bering Sea in Alaska, Germany miners, and the astronauts and their lift-off in Kazakhstan.

Film Festival: Nadine - Erik de Bruyn
09-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum

Nadine is a career woman: successful, independent and ambitious. But, she’s single, just over forty and still childless. Inside her body, the biological clock is ticking like mad, till the point where it begins to jump and finally derails into a bizarre and extreme act…

Film Festival: The Only One - Geoffrey Enthoven
10-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum

Living unhappily with his daughter Gerda after his wife's death, Lucien (Nany Buyl, one of Belgium's most renowned actors) is determined to return to an independent life in his own home. But that isn't so easy. Everyone has plans for Lucien, including Mathilde, his best friend's wife, with whom he has had a longstanding affair. When his much younger neighbor, Sylvia, arrives on the scene and—to Lucien's surprise—seems to take an interest in him, all kinds of possibilities emerge. Directed by Geoffrey Enthoven with a decidedly light touch, The Only One is that rare film about aging that completely avoids sentimentality

The Piano Trio Revisited
Jef Neve Trio, Michiel Braam - Béla Ágoston, Trio BraamDeJoodeVatcher
10-03-2008 / 19:30
Trafó - House of Contemporary Arts

The trio is one of the oldest of jazz formations. The joint concert of two piano trios who have chosen very different paths is clear evidence of the fact that creative musicians are always capable of filling this old form with new content.

Film Festival: Duska - Jos Stelling
10-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
11-03-2008 / 16:00
Merlin

Duska is the imaginative story of Bob, who has the best part of his life behind him. He is addicted to film, has visited several festivals as a film critic and is now working on his own screenplay. His muse and inspiration is the attractive, young and unattainable cashier from the movie theatre across the street. But when Bob’s desire for the girl finally becomes reality and she ends up at his house, a man named Duska suddenly appears at his door. They had met once at a Russian film festival, and Bob had invited him to visit if he was in the neighbourhood. That was the worst thing he could have done; Duska is not about to leave Bob alone, resulting in an original tragikomedy full of suprising twist…

Correct? The Price of Political Correctness: A Roundtable Discussion
Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Herman Vuijsje
11-03-2008 / 18:00
Merlin

Political correctness is a hot topic in Hungary today. Is there too much of it, creating taboos in certain areas of life, thus preventing action in those areas? Or, to the contrary, is Hungary at a stage where more rather than less political correctness is needed, given the rise of intolerance and hatred between various groups in Hungarian society?
Debating the issue with the author will be Philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás.

Holland Tsunami
theatre group SPACE
11-03-2008 - 12-03-2008 / 20:00
Keleti Railway station

‘We are facing a rescue operation unparalleled until this moment. We must achieve a full evacuation of 16 million people within a month time. This means over 170.000 people per day. The problem still stands that we don’t know where to leave them. Only a one country is willing to receive Dutch refugees, especially because there is a very limited chance that they will be able to return to their homeland.'

Film Festival: Stages - Mijke de Jong
11-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum
12-03-2008 / 17:00
Merlin

Following his parents’s divorce, Isaac, seventeen, lives alone with his mother. An introvert by nature, he passes the time by polishing his Samurai sword, listening to his walkman, and slipping into the apartments of absent strangers. His parents, Roos and Martin, meet regularly to keep a connection with one another. When Roos confides her concerns about Isaac, Martin seems to have little interest in his son’s life. Roos remains alone with the serious psychological problem of her son, and she cannot count on any help from the father.

Film Festival: Jungle Rudy, the Chronicle of a Family - Rob Smits
12-03-2008 / 18:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum

As the son of a banker from The Hague, he had grown up in luxury and his future seemed all mapped out, but then Rudolf Truffino went hiking in the Venezuelan rainforest shortly after World War II. There, an Indian tribe saved him from death by exhaustion near the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls. Jungle Rudy, as his nickname soon became, proceeded to build the exotic holiday camp Ucaima for the wealthy people of the world.

STAU
Anouk van Dijk
12-03-2008 / 19:00, 21:30
Millenáris Theater

A hit across Russia, China, Australia and the United States, Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk's performance STAU dissolves traditional theatrical boundaries to examine the relationship between audience and performer – and transforms the experience of contemporary dance in the process.

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, Conductor: Ton Koopman
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir, conductor: Ton Koopman
12-03-2008 / 19:30
Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir is a world-famous ensemble. Founded in the Netherlands in 1979 by Ton Koopman, the group consists of musicians from all over the world, sharing a particular passion for the Baroque. About seven times a year they gather to perform live and make CD-recordings under Koopman’s inspiring direction. At the closing event of the LOW Festival they will perform a special, symbolic Easter program.

Film Festival: Ex-drummer - Koen Mortier
12-03-2008 / 20:30
Örökmozgó Filmmuseum

Every village has its band of fools, trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits,
but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled rock musicians are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy for the job, were it not for the fact that his only handicap is that he can’t play the drums.