Man with a Movie Camera (1929) with live score! ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ Moons of Cavia ⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆

Name: Man with a Movie Camera (1929) with live score! ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ Moons of Cavia ⁺₊⋆ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆
Start: 2025-08-29T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Van Hallstraat 52-I, 1051 HH Amsterdam, Netherlands

Schedule

Fri, 29 Aug, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Van Hallstraat 52-I, 1051 HH Amsterdam, Netherlands | Amsterdam, NH

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 – Dziga Vertov (1929) (Restored version)
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
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:
20:00 – Doors open
21:30 – 23:00 Man with a Movie Camera (1929), dir. Dziga Vertov, USSR, 68’ (w/ live improvised soundtrack by Minute Made Music)
23:00 - 03:00 DJ Pink Tweaks (house, cosmic disco, world music) in Cavia foyer