GUIDE TO OTHER FUTURES 4 INTRODUCTION 10 PROGRAMME 26 TIMETABLE 46 CREATING OTHER FUTURES 48 OTHER FUTURES ACADEMY 51 OTHER FUTURES OVERVIEW 52 TICKET INFORMATION 53 FESTIVAL PLAN 54 COLOPHON February 2-4, 2018 in Melkweg and Sugarfactory. Preceding the festival, the Other Futures Academy OTHER will bring together storytellers from different fields to examine an urgent topic through the lens of science fiction. The subject in 2018 is New FUTURES Narratives for Climate Action and it will take place Exploring New Perspectives on February 1 at VondelCS. through Science Fiction We will develop the international online platform for the research and presentation of science fiction together with our partners, participants and the public. In the future this will result in activities all Other Futures is an online and offline platform for over the world in collaboration with local partners. thinkers and builders of other futures. For the first time in the history of science fiction, makers and MACHO HEROES? thinkers from different disciplines and different In these changing and challenging times, parts of the world will explore the potentialities of science fiction – often considered a poor cousin of the genre together with the public. The first edition highbrow literature and arthouse films – enables of the Other Futures festival will focus on non- us to imagine possible futures. But in countries Western science fiction. where continuous change is the status quo Other Futures will kick off with the exhibition (war and conflict zones, countries with unstable Creating Other Futures from January 14 – February governments), thinkers and creators discovered 11 and a three-day festival in Amsterdam from the potential of the genre much earlier. Ten years
OTHER 2 FUTURES OTHER 3 FUTURES ago, while travelling through the Middle East and emancipation, diversity, queer futures, postcolonial Africa, I noticed an unexpected amount of science theories and practices. fiction. People were writing, drawing and filming alternative futures as a way of criticising existing CRITIQUE AND HUMOUR power structures and avoiding censorship. Many artists use science fiction to criticize This surprised me. After all, wasn’t science fiction, and ridicule Western society and the historical that Western genre par excellence, primarily about consequences of the colonial and capitalist views macho heroes? White men with high-tech of the West. As Nalo Hopkinson, the Caribbean- weaponry who defended the earth against alien American science fiction writer and editor invasions or conquered planets on the wild of anthologies like So Long Been Dreaming: frontiers of the universe? Postcolonial Science Fiction from 2004, has said: Nothing could be further from the truth. A steady “Writers of postcolonial science fiction flow of inspiring films, books, plays, music and appropriate the meme of colonizing the natives art is being produced by non-Western artists and and, from the experience of the colonizee, critique thinkers. Their science fiction offers a different it, pervert it, fuck with it, with irony, with anger, approach to the future, one that is humane and with humor, and also, with love and respect for the open to contact with others, whether they be genre of science fiction that makes it possible to people, transhumans, aliens or spirits. Often, these think about new ways of doing things.” makers do not see time as linear – a straight line We hope to show that this kind of science to the future – but as cyclical: the past is part of fiction is a lively, exciting and often witty art form the present, and so is the future. The themes are which is not a confirmation but a critique of our urgent: our relation with the planet and the ‘Other’, nearly bankrupt modernistic project, and which
OTHER 4 FUTURES OTHER 5 FUTURES offers new panoramas. We will do this with the KINDRED SPIRITS works of art and their makers, and with works by It took a few years to research the terrain, form academics who are often from the fields of cultural the team of cultural freelancers, who for the most anthropology, political science and philosophy. Or part worked without a fee, select the participating with lectures and workshops by writers of science makers and thinkers and find the funding, and we fiction themselves, who have taken on theory for are incredibly proud that we have succeeded in the want of attention from literary, cinema and art realizing the first edition of Other Futures. critics. Our aim is to explore the potentialities of We have only been able to do this because this genre together with makers and thinkers from we found kindred spirits, who believe with us that different disciplines and the public. In this rapidly now is the time to change the world into a place changing world, science fiction offers instruments where everyone is welcome. We all belong to the of empowerment and change. same family and have but one planet. It’s as simple We will show works that deal with typical as that. science fiction tropes like alternate realities, In closing, I would like to thank from the bottom alternative histories and sciences, multiverses, of my heart our team and board who invested apocalypse, time travel and contact with the their knowledge, expertise and passion in creating Other from the perspective that abduction and Other Futures. I thank the participating artists suppression, conquest and annihilation is not and thinkers who travelled from all over the world fiction but was and still is a reality for many to Amsterdam to meet and share with us their people in the world. Certain themes recur in every dreams, projects, thoughts and plans. I thank our discipline: ecology, queer future, emancipation partners who from the beginning joined us in this and (post)colonial issues. exciting adventure with enthusiasm.
OTHER 6 FUTURES OTHER 7 FUTURES And last but not least, I thank the eight private and that we must think; these are public funds and individual crowdfunders who put urgencies of times the that These times are the their trust in us. Without all your support, Other #STORY- TELLING (Donna Haraway) (Donna
Futures would have remained a dream. We can stories. need now start building a wonderful future. Have fun!
currents in a navigable stream. futures that flow together like time as pasts, presents andtime as pasts, (Native) slipstream views slipstream (Native) STREAM #SLIP- (Grace Dillon)
Brigitte van der Sande, Other Futures initiator and artistic director
OTHER 8 FUTURES #afrofuturism MUSIC NUBYA #afropunk GARCIA MUSIC #afrofuturism #jazz IBIBIO #refreshing SOUND Saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia (UK) is one of the MACHINE #disco glitch #afropunk leading forces of the resurgent Nubya Garcia London jazz scene. Raised in a #future funk musical Caribbean family, her Fronted by London-born Nigerian brand of Afro-tinged jazz has singer Eno Williams, Ibibio Sound made her a key component in a #afrobubblegum Kahiu (Kenya) is part of the Machine (UK) is a clash of African string of new and established FILM youngest generation of African and electronic elements inspired groups. storytellers. As one of the in equal measure by the golden WANURI founders of AFROBUBBLEGUM, With her first solo project, Nubya era of West-African funk and KAHIU she makes and celebrates African 5ive, she wants to explore disco and modern post-punk and art that is free of the continent’s the common ground between electro. #afrobubblegum #dystopia ` problems. progressive jazz and hip-hop. #climate action Folk stories, recounted to Eno in Pumzi is a short film by Wanuri Nubya Garcia & band draw from her mother’s Ibibio tongue, form “People ask if it’s difficult to blend Kahiu set in a future Kenya where hip-hop and backbeat influences the fabric from which the band’s science fiction and Africa. As far water has become a scarce item. as well as the futuristic sounds of unique musical tapestry is woven. as I know, science and Africa have The young scientist Asha goes iconic composers and musicians This evocative Nigerian poetic never been separate.” looking for the leftovers of a green Sun-Ra, Fela Kuti and Pharoah imagery is set against an edgy Storyteller and filmmaker Wanuri world outside the closed city. Sanders. Afro-electro soundscape.
OTHER 10 FUTURES OTHER 11 FUTURES #anime FILM MAMORU OSHII #alternate histories #cyberpunk #anime The anime film Ghost in the Shell VISUAL ART by the Japanese director Mamoru Oshii from 1995 is based on LARISSA Ghost in the Shell by Mamoru Oshii the iconic cyberpunk manga by SANSOUR Masamune Shirow from 1989. AND This film is one of the first in #climate action SØREN LIND which traditional animation In 1982, Bollywood composer was combined with computer- Charanjit Singh recorded ancient FILM #speculative fiction generated images and tells about Indian ragas using Roland drum #alternate histories a cyborg who questions her own machines, sequencers, and VAHID In the Future they ate from the identity. synthesizers – all set to a disco VAKILIFAR finest Porcelain is an installation beat. The rediscovery of Singh’s Ghost in the Shell is mostly known #dystopia #urban fantasy about an underground resistance album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat, in the West as the American group that does not plant trees, released by the label Bombay #climate action remake, starring Scarlett but porcelain. Connection, caused a stir in the “If we lose our connection as Johansson. world of dance & electronic music human beings, is there any The artefacts are buried for five years ago. difference between us and other archaeologists, who in future #bollywood creatures?” can use the remains of a totally Singh passed away in 2015 and MUSIC fictitious civilization to prevent now, two years later, Bombay Taboor, titled after a mythological land grabs. With their installations EDO Connection is hosting a special term for ‘navel of the earth’, is and surreal films that are part tribute to re-introduce these a film about alienation. A man fiction, part documentary, Sansour BOUMAN futuristic ragas to the world. Guest dressed in aluminium foil rides #bollywood #vintage futurism (Palestine) and Lind (Denmark) singers and musicians will perform through Teheran (Iran) at night address the political reality – LIVE TRIBUTE to Ten Ragas to a the original composition from the on a motorbike. His mission: which is equally absurd. Disco Beat landmark album. exterminate cockroaches.
OTHER 12 FUTURES OTHER 13 FUTURES #cyberpunk FILM KHAVN DE LA CRUZ #cyberpunk #dystopia
“It is to shock, to inspire, to have fun, to cry, to be moved, every Passageways, tunnels and flights possible reaction, in any which of steps form a labyrinth through way…” which our hero moves, filmed by Composer, author and punk Vakilifar in a hypnotizing rhythm. rock director Khavn de la Cruz FILM (Philippines) has made over 47 features and 112 short films. HICHAM This “Father of Philippine digital LASRI filmmaking” seeks out and goes beyond the limits in his #queer futures #climate action Nnedi Okorafor lo-fi films like Mondomanila, a Lasri (Morocco) shot this hyper-realistic documentary cum tragicomedy about a group of absurd musical about the slums wedding-procession artistes in LITERATURE lyrical fantasy”, according to The of Manila. black-and-white New York Times. She is convinced EDSA XXX. Nothing Ever In The Sea is Behind we follow NNEDI that science fiction can change the Changes in the Ever-Changing Tarik, a dancer who dresses as a world. In her dystopian science OKORAFOR Republic of Ek-Ek-Ek is a musical woman for weddings. The story fiction novel Lagoon, a marine #shapeshifting #climate action satire by director Khavn de la takes place in a nameless Arab biologist, a rapper and a soldier “You cannot find a solution to a Cruz on the political chaos in country in an unspecified time. are carried off by a tidal wave. problem until you imagine that 2030 and a fictitious country The water is contaminated and ‘Lagos’ is the Portuguese word solution first.” highly reminiscent of the the characters are at a tipping for ‘lagoon’ and also the name of Philippines. point in their lives. They can’t go Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria/USA) the Nigerian city “where nothing forward but they can’t go back writes books that combine “politi works yet everything happens”, In Alipato, The Very Brief Life of an anymore either. cally complex science fiction and says Okorafor in her preface. Ember, Khavn de la Cruz combines
OTHER 14 FUTURES OTHER 15 FUTURES what sounds remain? Who will lead On February 1, The American Book the survivors to new sound worlds? Center is organizing a workshop Who will chart the new frontier? It with Loenen-Ruiz. is after the end of the world, the PERFORMANCE stage is a spacecraft, the mic is an accelerator. Brace yourself for The RABZ Comet is Coming... LANSIQUOT LITERATURE #decolonizing the future #visuals
ROCHITA Rabz Lansiquot is a filmmaker LOENEN- and a DJ. She is part of sorryyoufeel RUIZ uncomfortable, a collective of #decolonizing the future artists, activists and academics, The Comet is Coming #steampunk creating discourse and discussion around identity and politics. “I wanted to find the stories that connected me to my nation’s fantasy and crime in an account of Danalogue The Conquerer and indigenous heritage.” #diaspora futures a plundering and murdering band Betamax Killer, pool their energies MUSIC of young kids, who after a long Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipino to build a vessel powerful enough prison sentence disappear in a science fiction writer living in to transport any party into outer THE mysterious manner, one by one. the Netherlands and winner of space. the Octavia E. Butler award for SCORPIOS #afrofuturism #diaspora futures #decolonizing the future Together they chart a path based ‘change-the-world’ science fiction. on the encoded language of Sun “A sound that owes as much to MUSIC Loenen-Ruiz comes from the Ra, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and Detroit as it does to Khartoum.” mountainous regions of the the BBC Radiophonic Workshops THE COMET Philippines, where the original The Scorpios mix Arab rhythms from which the band’s name culture has not been completely with raw funk, demolishing IS COMING emerged. eradicated. The Spaniards only cultural barriers to create a #jazz #decolonizing the future The Comet is Coming is the colonized the lowlands, and connecting rhythm. The band #shapeshifting soundtrack to an imagined the Americans have merely members hail from Sudan and live Three musical cosmonauts apocalypse. In the aftermath of made attempts at ‘civilizing’ the in West London. They combine from London, King Shabaka, widespread sonic destruction, mountains. traditional songs with music
OTHER 16 FUTURES OTHER 17 FUTURES #dystopia LITERATURE from the 60s and 70s, a period in NALO which Sudan had many Western influences. HOPKINSON #dystopia #alternate histories VISUAL ART Nalo Hopkinson (Jamaica/ CHARL Canada/USA) is a reader, writer and compiler of science fiction Cleverman by Wayne Blair LAND and fantasy literature. VREUGD She received a number of awards #queer futures #diaspora futures for her debut, the dystopian novel The band consists of artists, his work. In his installations, which #visuals Brown Girl in the Ring. Hopkinson activists and musicians that evoke the relation between his has also collected and published interweave dance, grunge, funk “You have Afro-American and own experiences and a collective stories by her colleagues. So Long and riot grrl vibes with punk Black British but Afro-European, history spanning generations, he Been Dreaming: Postcolonial attitude. or rather a European form of seeks ways to combine objective Science Fiction and Fantasy (with Afro-ness, isn’t a match yet. It’s a science and technology with Uppinder Mehan) highlights the concept that’s still being formed, #indigenous science subjective indigenous knowledge fact that plenty of good science and I try to contribute through PERFORMANCE systems. fiction stories have been written by visuals and text.” black and non-Caucasian authors. EM’KAL FILM The work of curator and artist Charl Landvreugd encompasses #grunge EYONGAKPA WAYNE sculptural art, performance, #rethinking the past MUSIC BLAIR installations, photography and #indigenous science #indigenous science #slipstream video. As a PhD candidate SCREAMING Visual artist Em’kal Eyongakpa “One has to take responsibility. at the Royal College of Art in comes from Cameroon and It’s our history of how we treat London, Landvreugd is currently TOENAIL studied at the Rijksakademie in ‘the other’ in society that makes researching the visual strategies #grunge #punk #queer futures Amsterdam. us who we are.” of Dutch Afro artists, focusing in Screaming Toenail (UK) is a South particular on the production of London-based, anti-colonial, He uses the repetitive and The dreamtime of the Aboriginals cultural citizenship. militant queer punk band. transformative power of rituals in not only refers to the past but also
OTHER 18 FUTURES OTHER 19 FUTURES to the present and to the future. #punk Knowledge is passed on to new PERFORMANCE generations in the form of art. Cleverman is a six-part, futu JACOB V ristic action drama in a dystopian JOYCE Sydney (Australia), where #punk #queer futures superhuman ‘Hairy People’ #poetry #talk are banished to isolated zones and detention centres. In his Ted Talk, Sorry Not Sorry, A predominantly indigenous Tokenism and White Liberal cast, ancient stories from the Proverbs, poet, artist and activist Aboriginals’ dreamtime and Jacob V Joyce points out the contemporary hip-hop set the tone. emergence of thinkers and artists in the UK who are centering the #jazz voices of black and brown people. FILM Joyce performs as a poet during the festival as well as singer of Jacob V Joyce SUN RA the punk band Screaming Toenail, #jazz #afrofuturism where his activist lyrics are “Loud & Queer”! #decolonizing the future it’s still incredibly new and the transportation to this new place Space is the Place is a cultfilm people who involve themselves is music. from 1974, directed by John with it to the best potential are #queer futures Coney (USA) and written by Sun those very outside of the ‘norm’.” PERFORMANCE Ra and Joshua Smith. #mag culture Kariuki is an artist, writer and PERFORMANCE BODY PARTY In Space is the Place, after founding editor of the quarterly #storytelling #queer futures the album of the same name, magazine Diaspora Drama, ISAAC “Nightlife is sometimes the only Sun Ra and his Arkestra have “celebrating creative and offbeat space where we’re allowed, or we disappeared without a trace since KARIUKI people of colour on the internet”. #mag culture #visuals feel allowed, to define ourselves.” their European tour in 1969. They He lives and works by turns in have landed on a new planet “Digital art situates ivory London and Nairobi (Kenya). He Other Futures presents Body and decide to settle African tower institutional art in a very focuses on autonomy, identity, the Party – Queer & Radical Club Americans on it. The medium of uncomfortable position because body and internet culture. Night: Kareem Reid, CKTRL,
OTHER 20 FUTURES OTHER 21 FUTURES The released albums vary from ‘unlistenable noise shit’ to ‘feminist punk hip-hop’. “I want His video Capture, made with to be fluid,” says Blanco, who the street artist collective Kongo refuses to be pegged to one Astronauts, is a road trip through genre. Kinshasa in which the past, the future, exploitation and black “Notoriety is power, and through excellence pass in review. that power you can influence social attitudes.” #refreshing #reclaiming the future MUSIC PERFORMANCE EZRA Mykki Blanco BALOJI COLLECTIVE #decolonizing the future #afrofuturism #jazz #refreshing
#reclaiming the future #talk “... a cosmic journey that crosses Bwalya & special guest IB Kamara art director Joseph Bond on Radar spheres of influence, eras and (UK), an intentionally queer space Radio. #film screening tempos...” for black & brown bodies, but all Baloji on 64 Bits & Malchite, the bodies are welcome. #queer rap title of his new EP: “Everything I Ezra Collective hails from London. do in music is computer-based – They continue to push the Founder Kareem Reid is a writer MUSIC and 40% of my computer and my boundaries of live music, creating and artist; his work explores the phone came from Congolese soil.” a unique blend of Afro beat, hip- intersections of black cultural MYKKI hop and reggae, tied together with production, nightlife and The Congo-born Belgian rapper/ BLANCO a love of jazz. performance. #queer futures #queer rap musician Baloji (Swahili for
‘science’, understood to be This past November, Ezra CKTRL is a South London-based #performance ‘witchcraft’ in the colonial period) Collective released their new musician, DJ, record producer and Mykki Blanco is a radical also works as a video artist, actor EP Juan Pablo: The Philosopher, Body Party resident. American rapper, spectacular and stylist. He mixes various mixed by Floating Points and Matt Bwalya is a London-based performance artist and pioneering influences such as African music Mysko and recorded at Abbey journalist and copywriter and DJ gender activist with a personal and Belgian trance into his own Road. ‘Space Is The Place’ was the and has her own radio show with label, Dogfood Music Group. ‘musique de mélange’. first track to be released.
OTHER 22 FUTURES OTHER 23 FUTURES #rethinking the past VISUAL ART MING WONG FILM #rethinking the past ANDY SIEGE
#alternate histories #rethinking the past “If you don’t have to answer to Ming Wong “I was interested in the idea of anyone, you might as well try to exploring how one of the oldest make the world a better place.” performing art forms in the world can be used to address notions of German-Kenyan filmmaker Andy #scenario thinking he explores the possibilities and the ‘future’.” Siege grew up in Africa and LITERATURE hazards of a genre that provides Europe. From his own unique In Scenography for a Chinese new perspectives on our own narrative perspective, he explores Science Fiction Opera, Ming Wong MARTIJN reality. In Hoe schrijf je fantasy his fear that people use their explores future scenarios in a en sciencefiction (How to Write differences as an excuse to harm LINDEBOOM three-dimensional theatre stage Fantasy and Science Fiction), he one another. At the same time, #scenario thinking set of painted backdrops showing and co-author Debbie van der he hopes his stories help to heal Lindeboom (NL) is a science the interior of a spaceship Zande investigate how to build those injuries. fiction writer, jurist, chair of the inspired by science fiction movies. your own fantasy world with Stichting ter bevordering van het Cantonese opera meets science The historical science fiction words, or to bring it to a higher fantastische genre (Foundation fiction and film. During Other film Beti and Amare was written, level. Together, they administer for the Promotion of the Fantasy Futures, he is presenting a series directed and produced by Andy the fantasy and sci-fi section of Genre) and advocate of socially- of screens with news flashes, a Siege. The film takes place in 1936 the book website Hebban.nl. critical science fiction. cacophony of text, images and in Ethiopia, where the girl Beti is Lindeboom also organizes the sounds that in fact is a collection on the run from Mussolini’s troops In his books and workshops, Harland Awards, the biggest of science fiction elements as – Siege himself plays an Italian such as Valkuilen en voordelen writing competition for science a prelude to his future space soldier – until help appears in the van sciencefiction (Pitfalls and fiction and fantasy in the operas. form of an alien. Plus Points of Science Fiction), Netherlands.
OTHER 24 FUTURES OTHER 25 FUTURES TIMETABLE Programme and timetable are subject to change, FRIDAY 2 FEB 2018 please visit OTHERFUTURES.NL for all updates
OZ VISUALS BY RABZ LANSIQUOT p. 17
17:00 p. 38 18:15 p. 36 20:15 p. 35 22:15 p. 22 23:15 p. 21
PERFORMANCE LITERATURE PERFORMANCE MUSIC MUSIC OZ CLIMBING NISI MOOR MYKKI BODY PARTY POETREE doors open 16:30 SHAWL MOTHER BLANCO Until 05:00
18:15 p. 37 19:15 p. 10 21:00 p. 21 + 24 22:30 p. 21 23:00 p. 18
PERFOR- MASTERCLASS MING WONG MANCE MUSIC SOUND WANURI JACOB V LECTURE & JACOB SCREAMING
UPSTAIRS KAHIU: WHERE’S DELOFI JOYCE: V TOENAIL THE FUN QUEER SCI-FI JOYCE
18:00 p. 14 19:45 p. 15 21:45 p. 15
FILM FILM FILM KHAVN DE LA CRUZ: EDSA XXX: HICHAM LASRI: NOTHING EVER CHANGES IN THE KHAVN DE LA CRUZ: CINEMA THE SEA IS EVER-CHANGING REPUBLIC OF ALIPATO: THE VERY BRIEF BEHIND EK-EK-EK LIFE OF AN EMBER
12:00 p. 46
VISUAL ART CREATING OTHER FUTURES WITH MING WONG, FRAN ILICH, LARISSA SANSOUR AND SØREN LIND, JACQUE
MELKWEG EXPO NJERI AND AIRICH
OTHER 26 FUTURES OTHER 27 FUTURES TIMETABLE Programme and timetable are subject to change, SATURDAY 3 FEB 2018 please visit OTHERFUTURES.NL for all updates
OZ VISUALS BY ISAAC KARIUKI p. 20
12:00 p. 14 13:45 p. 18 + 32 15:30 p. 38 + 43 17:45 p. 23 19:45 p. 17 21:45 p. 16
LITERATURE WALIDAH IMARISHA MUSIC MUSIC GRACE DILLON & MUSIC OZ NNEDI NALO HOPKINSON: & CLIMBING EZRA THE POETREE: THE COMET OKORAFOR SCIENCE FICTION & SCIENCE FICTION & COLLEC- SCOR- IS COMING doors open 11:30 POST COLONIALISM SOCIAL JUSTICE TIVE PIOS
12:00 p. 42 13:30 p. 25 15:00 p. 35 + 41 16:45 p. 18 18:15 p. 23 19:30 p. 19 20:45 p. 44 22:15
BASMA ABDEL AZIZ PERFOR- MASTERCLASS MASTERCLASS MANCE MASTERCLASS & DANIEL JOSÉ PERFOR- MUSIC MANCE EM’KAL MONNIK MARTIJN OLDER: REBELLION NALO TBA UPSTAIRS LINDEBOOM AND CRITICISM IN HOPKINSON BALOJI EYON- NKISI SCIENCE FICTION GAKPA
12:00 p. 40 13:30 p. 24 15:15 p. 38 17:30 p. 33 19:15 p. 19 21:00 p. 13
FILM FILM AND Q&A FILM FILM FILM FILM MIGUEL ANDY SIEGE: EDER SANTOS: JEAN-PIERRE WAYNE BLAIR: VAHID VAKILIFAR:
CINEMA LLANSÓ: BETI AND BEKOLO: CRUMBS AMARE BLUE DESERT LES SAIGNANTES CLEVERMAN TABOOR
12:00 p. 46
VISUAL ART CREATING OTHER FUTURES WITH MING WONG, FRAN ILICH, LARISSA SANSOUR AND SØREN LIND, JACQUE NJERI AND AIRICH MELKWEG EXPO
21:00 p. 39 22:45 p. 40
MUSIC MUSIC INSANLAR BABA & ANADOLU EKSPRES ZULA Until 06:00 SUGARFACTORY
OTHER 28 FUTURES OTHER 29 FUTURES TIMETABLE Programme and timetable are subject to change, SUNDAY 4 FEB 2018 please visit OTHERFUTURES.NL for all updates
OZ VISUALS BY CHARL LANDVREUGD p. 18
12:00 p. 12 + 42 13:15 p. 25 + 36 14:30 p. 14 + 41 17:15 p. 12 19:30 p. 11 21:45 p. 11
DILMAN DILA & MUSIC LARISSA SAN- NISI SHAWL, NNEDI OKORAFOR EDO BOUMAN: MUSIC SOUR: CULTURES MARTIJN MUSIC OZ OF RESISTANCE: LINDEBOOM & FRAN ILICH: TEN RAGAS TO IBIBIO THE POWER OF & GODELIEVE SCIENCE FICTION A DISCO BEAT NUBYA SCIENCE-FICTION SPAAS: AS INSTRUMENT (TRIBUTE SOUND TO REWRITE WRITING ABOUT GARCIA HISTORIES THE OTHER OF CHANGE TO CHARANJIT MACHINE doors open 11:30 SINGH)
p. 18 + 34 p. 18 + 33 12:00 p. 43 13:45 p. 10 15:15 + 35 16:30 + 41 + 42 17:45 p. 17 + 36 19:00 p. 19 20:30 p. 32 22:00 p. 44
DANIEL JOSÉ ROCHITA MASTERCLASS OLDER, NALO FILM AND Q&A BASMA HOPKINSON, LOENEN- MUSIC WALIDAH IMARISHA: ABDEL AZIZ, TALK CHARL LAND- DILMAN DILA RUIZ & NISI MUSIC DREAMING NEW WANURI & AIRICH: THE RED LIGHT VREUGD & IMPACT OF SHAWL: THE WAYNE SHABAKA UPSTAIRS FUTURES: SCIENCE KAHIU: JACQUE NJERI: HUTCHINGS RADIO PROTESTS IN DIVERSITY LEGACY OF FICTION AND SOCIAL ON THE FUTURE OCTAVIA E. BLAIR RESIDENTS CHANGE PUMZI SCIENCE FICTION OF SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER
12:00 p. 20 13:45 p. 41 15:45 p. 33 17:30 p. 12
FILM FILM AND Q&A FILM JEAN-PIERRE FILM
CINEMA SUN RA: SPACE ISAAC EZBAN: BEKOLO: NAKED MAMORU OSHII: GHOST IN THE SHELL IS THE PLACE THE INCIDENT REALITY / Q&A
12:00 p. 46
VISUAL ART CREATING OTHER FUTURES WITH MING WONG, FRAN ILICH, LARISSA SANSOUR AND SØREN LIND, JACQUE NJERI AND AIRICH MELKWEG EXPO
OTHER 30 FUTURES OTHER 31 FUTURES #slipstream VISUAL ART #shapeshifting AIRICH MUSIC #slipstream SHABAKA Futurism meets Afropunk on HUTCHINGS ‘Planet AiRich’ With her photography, AiRich #jazz #decolonizing the future (NL) unites past and future in #shapeshifting surrealistic and psychedelic “I resonate with those who images. She uses portrait perceive the totality of the photography as a medium to tell zeitgeist we inhabit (or which has stories inspired by mythology and come before.) Characters who science fiction. Often she chooses suggest alternate orthodoxies models with singular features AiRich which challenge us to sculpt the and an appearance that does future rather than wade through a not conform to Western beauty tide of inevitability.” standards, emphasizing the together with stories from Africa, SCIENCE importance of rediscovering and Shabaka Hutchings is a the Middle East, the Pacific and redefining black identity. saxophonist, band leader and other parts of the world. composer. He is part of the young GRACE Dillon introduced the term jazz and improvisation scene in #speculative fiction DILLON ‘Indigenous Futurism’, which like London and plays in different FILM #shapeshifting #alternate histories Afrofuturism includes different formations, including Shabaka & Grace Dillon is a professor in disciplines of art: “Writers of The Ancestors, Sons of Kemet and JEAN-PIERRE the Indigenous Nations Studies Indigenous futurisms … change The Comet is Coming. Program at Portland State the perimeters of sf. Liberated BEKOLO Hutchings investigates how to University and editor of Walking from the constraints of genre #speculative fiction determine Caribbean influences the Clouds: An Anthology of expectations … they have room “If we can’t imagine things to and what happens when they Indigenous Science Fiction, which to … stretch the boundaries; and, come on this continent, how can come in contact with typical collects stories from the original perhaps most significantly, to we get that future we cannot Western music. inhabitants of North America reenlist the science of indigeneity” see…?”
OTHER 32 FUTURES OTHER 33 FUTURES this genre, we have to be the ones writing those narratives.” In her series MaaSci, digital artist Jacque Njeri (Kenia) fuses the rich aesthetics of the Masai, once the largest tribe in East #steampunk Africa, with space travel. From PERFORMANCE time immemorial, the Masai have moved freely with their livestock MOOR between the borders of Nigeria and Tanzania. Njeri takes them MOTHER #dystopia #steampunk further, into the universe. #cyberpunk #alternate histories LITERATURE MaaSci by Jacque Njeri BASMA “Fight time as a state of mind.” Live poetry performance by Cinema is by definition about It is 150 years from now. Several ABDEL AZIZ musician, hard-core poet and #speculative fiction #dystopia being freed from time and space, African cities have grown into one activist Camae Ayewa, aka Moor according to Bekolo: “Can we see big metropolis. In Naked Reality “Fiction gave me a very wide Mother. She not only mixes hip- other futures for the continent the inhabitants are controlled by space to say what I wanted to say hop, punk, free jazz and dissonant beyond these apocalyptic the immortals who have taken about totalitarian authority.” electronics but also history, perspectives of hunger, droughts, over their whole being. Afrofuturism and sci-fi. Cairo-based author, psychiatrist, migrations, wars, epidemics?” VISUAL ART artist and ‘rebel’ Basma Abdel Her debut, the dystopian concept Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon) Aziz (Egypt) is a columnist and album Fetish Bones, appeared on his erotic sci-fi thriller Les JACQUE the author of various nonfiction in 2016. Rolling Stone voted her Saignantes: “I was not trying to NJERI books. She was acclaimed as one of the 10 artists ‘You Need make a sci-fi film, I was trying to one of Foreign Policy’s Global to Know’ that year. Museums #speculative fiction speculate, to ask the ‘What If’ Thinkers with the appearance like the Metropolitan Museum question. I was maybe trying to #alternate histories of her first novel, The Queue, in of Art exhibit her soundscape make a ‘cautionary tale’ by saying “To have Africans and our rich which she paints a realistic picture installations. She made her most ‘if we continue like this, this is cultural tapestry represented in of life after the Arab Spring in an recent album, Crime Waves, in what we might end up with’.” ways we will be satisfied with in unspecified city in the Middle East. collaboration with Mental Jewelry.
OTHER 34 FUTURES OTHER 35 FUTURES LITERATURE NISI SHAWL #decolonizing the future
#steampunk #alternate histories #storytelling #speculative fiction MUSIC “I think of speculative fiction as basically taking care of all of our KAREEM needs when it comes to imagining ourselves, imagining ourselves REID #queer futures #stor ytelling doing better, imagining ourselves in the future, imagining ourselves “Nightlife is sometimes the only in the past.” space where we’re allowed, or we feel allowed, to define ourselves.” DELOFI Nisi Shawl (USA) is a journalist, activist and writer of short science The first exhibition on Queer fiction and fantasy stories in British Art, in Tate Britain, included which she develops alternative a number of ‘queer stories’. In #tape culture histories. Everfair is her first collaboration with Channel 4, Tate MUSIC the most curious experimental science fiction novel. What if the among other things presented a music via Leaving Records, Acorn original inhabitants of Congo had film portrait of Kareem Reid (UK) DELOFI Tapes, Hex Tapes and Cleveland developed the technique of the – artist, writer and founder of #curious futures #lo-fi futures Tapes. His split tape release with steam engine earlier than their the club night Body Party – #tape culture Japan’s BUN in 2014 created some colonial oppressors? In Writing the in which Reid shows how he DELOFI, hailing from Cleveland international hype. Other, co-authored with Cynthia navigates as a ‘queer black body’ Ohio, is co-founder and Ward, she explores ways of in this world. A story about social Throughout the Other Futures figurehead of Dirty Tapes. making believable characters from isolation, incomprehension and festival days, DELOFI will be a different culture come to life, the importance of the Body Party Equal parts devotional, experi playing and broadcasting sonic instead of falling back on clichés as both a temporal cushion and a mental, and soulful, he has been interventions between the live or ending up with flat characters. foretaste of a different future. consistently putting out some of sets and performances.
OTHER 36 FUTURES OTHER 37 FUTURES #the other PERFORMANCE CLIMBING During Other Futures, percussio POETREE nist Sinan Tansal and drummer #the other #visionary fiction Alican Tezer will be part of the #alternate histories #utopia collective. iNSANLAR mixes
Anatolian pop, slo-mo disco, acid, Angela Davis: “Each time I dub, psychedelia and punk with have the pleasure of attending verses by the 17th century Turkish a performance by Climbing poet Kul Nesîmî and spiritual PoeTree, I feel enriched, concepts from Sufism. renewed, and inspired. Alixa and Naima insist that poetry Climbing PoeTree MUSIC can change the world – and it is true that the urgency, power and BABA ZULA beauty of their words impel us now in how we treat ourselves, In Blue Desert, a man is tormented #turko futurism to keep striving for the radical each other and the planet. “Art by his dreams. In search of BaBa ZuLa (Turkey) stands for futures toward which they is our weapon, our medicine, our answers, he comes in contact with psychedelic music from Istanbul, gesture.” voice, and our vision.” his twin spirit and learns about mixing tradition with electronics the meaning of life. Shot in the and reggae. The performances of Alixa Garcia Brazilian capital of Brasília and the and Naima Penniman, together #time travel The high sound of the electronic Atacame Desert in Chili. known as the powerhouse duo FILM saz, a string instrument, is Climbing PoeTree (USA), are chock typical of the band, along with full of verbal and visual resistance, EDER #turko futurism the darbuka drum, the Gypsy mercilessly exposing crucial SANTOS MUSIC jazz clarinet from Gypsy jazz themes like misrepresentation, and the wooden spoons used in #curious futures #urban fantasy climate change and social INSANLAR shamanistic rituals. BaBa ZuLa’s injustice. With Hurricane #time travel #turko futurism performances are audiovisual Season, a compelling show Video artist Eder Santos (Brazil) is iNSANLAR (Turkey) is a band from spectacles in a theatrical setting halfway between performance known for his hybrid projects that Istanbul with a variable line-up, that includes (belly) dancing, art and activism, they seize the combine visual art, film and new founded by DJ Barış K and saz costumes, poetry and live opportunity to make a difference media. player Cem Yıldız. drawing.
OTHER 38 FUTURES OTHER 39 FUTURES magical practice of ‘shadow FILM shaping’, through which works ISAAC of art are imbued with ancestral EZBAN spirits. Older began his writing career #dystopia #urban fantasy while working as an ambulance “The only way out will be to keep technician and is the composer going…” and bassist for the quartet Ghost Isaac Ezban (Mexico) loaded Star. He is critical towards films this dark psychological thriller and books that contain no racial with lots of cinematographic diversity because they do not references. reflect the world in which we live.
Anadolu Ekspres The Incident follows different storylines, such as two boys on #utopia the run who end up in a sinister VISUAL ART #urban fantasy stairwell, and a family in a car heading for the sea. The stories FRAN ILICH MUSIC FILM #utopia #decolonizing the future form endless loops in a parallel ANADOLU MIGUEL universe. Writer, media artist and activist Fran Ilich (Mexico) is building a LITERATURE EKSPRES LLANSÓ different future with concrete #turko futurism #dystopia #urban fantasy DANIEL JOSÉ projects: “Telling stories, A programme with iNSANLAR, “Science fiction, for me, is a way designing habits and experiences. BaBa Zula, Grup Ses, Osdorp to exaggerate, to think about OLDER I believe we have the power to #urban fantasy #alternate histories Tapes and Anadolu DJ’s. other worlds, to exaggerate the build little utopias that connect to issues of this world.” Paint a mural. Start a battle. the bigger schemes that change Anadolu Ekspres presents Turkish Change the world. the world.” folk, Persian psych, Anatolian Crumbs is a post-apocalyptic disco and futuristic Turkish visual romance that is variously set in Sierra, a girl of African/Latin He launched the Diego de la Vela culture. They interweave these a zoo, a forest and a bowling American origins, is the Coffee Co-op, a blend of politics various cultural influences, and centre in Ethiopia. Circling above protagonist of Older’s widely and coffee, planted by Zapatista give us a taste of the Turkish all these locations is a spaceship praised Shadowshaper series farmers in Mexico and served to psychedelic music scene of the that has come to life again after of novels for young adults, set workers in New York. The project future. hovering in the sky for decades. in Brooklyn. She discovers the was financed by his ‘Spacebank’
OTHER 40 FUTURES OTHER 41 FUTURES LITERATURE DILMAN DILA #dystopia #utopia
#decolonizing the future
#alternate histories (don’t hate banks, become the “Stories are an important tool in banks!). Ilich is already giving us a creating a better world.” taste of a different reality. Award-winning author, filmmaker, SCIENCE documentary maker, musician MONNIK and activist Dilman Dila (Uganda) published his first collection of #utopia #visionary fiction speculative short stories, A Killing #scenario thinking in the Sun, in 2014. In a number “Futurology is the art of of these, he explores what would positioning yourself in the here have happened if an alternate and now.” science with greater respect for nature had prevailed. What would The future is often a technological have been its implications for the fantasy, but Christiaan Fruneaux climate? Dila is presenting his new Dilman Dila and Edwin Gardner of Monnik, novel during Other Futures. Studio for Futures and Fiction, emphasize that a future society is mainly governed by other values, #vintage futurism Vintage Voudou presents a ‘salad #visionary fiction customs and world views. During PERFORMANCE bowl’ of sounds from ‘tropical LITERATURE the masterclass, Monnik will & funky records’: Caribbean, elaborate on the three blind spots VINTAGE Cumbia, Salsa, Ska, Reggae, Funk, WALIDAH of futurology: the cultural blind VOUDOU Bollywood, Oriental, Surinam, IMARISHA spot, the technological blind spot Calypso, Belly Dance, Brazil, #vintage futurism #lo-fi futures #decolonizing the future and the emotional blind spot. How African, Film Music, Beat, Exotica, #interventions #speculative fiction can we get around them? Together Psych, Weird, et cetera. Collected we will look for ways to navigate Vintage Voudou is an Amsterdam- from all over the world, from #visionary fiction towards Other Futures: Beyond based record store and a reissue the Caribbean Islands to South Whenever we try to envision Your Blindspot. label. America, Africa and Asia. a world without war, without
OTHER 42 FUTURES OTHER 43 FUTURES violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in an exercise of speculative fiction. Walidah Imarisha (USA) is a writer, spoken word artist, teacher and ‘rebel by reason’. Together with adrienne maree brown, she compiled Octavia’s Brood, an anthology of science fiction stories about social justice. ‘Visionary science fiction’: radical science fiction that starts with real world experiences and imagines new ways of understanding and dealing with them. Red Light Radio Residents #weird fiction MUSIC art shows, writes features for magazines, is an event promotor RED LIGHT and half of a DJ duo. and co-founder of NON Records, RADIO DJ Gioumanne co-hosts the a collective of African (diasporic) monthly Africa is Hot radio show RESIDENTS artists that use sound as their #weird fiction #dystopia on Red Light Radio. primary media, to articulate the Red Light Radio resident DJs My MUSIC visible and invisible structures Little Underground (founded by that create binaries in society, Femke Dekker as a moniker for NKISI and in turn distribute power. all her contemporary cultural #dystopia #weird fiction NKISI is also a regular at the events), Gioumanne (aka Jumanne #alternate histories Endless club night in London, Thomas) and many more will share NKISI (Congo) is the alias of playing an exciting mix of fast- their sonic spin on Rammellzee, Melika Ngombe Kolongo, an artist paced music that ranges from the Afrofuturist and hip-hop icon. raised in Belgium and now living central and West African club My Little Underground curates in London. She’s a producer, DJ tracks to gabber and doomcore.
OTHER 44 FUTURES OTHER 45 FUTURES IMAGINING OTHER FUTURES IS CREATING THE FIRST STEP IN CREATING science fiction movies, storylines, OTHER FUTURES OTHER FUTURES plots and news reports results in a stream of voices and viewpoints LARISSA SANSOUR (Palestine) without beginning or end. and SØREN LIND (Denmark) Welcome to Planet AiRich and its EXPLORING rewrite the future in an installation extraordinary inhabitants: hybrid that includes a short film, In beings halfway between gods and NEW the Future They Ate From the super heroes. In a playful and fun Finest Porcelain (2016), and two way, AIRICH (pronounced I-Rich, bronze sculptures, Archaeology the Netherlands) creates a new PERSPECTIVES in Absentia (2016). The artists reality with her own aesthetics use archaeology as a tool to and imagination. Colourful and claim a history for a nation – and unique. THROUGH therefore a future. Digital artist JACQUE NJERI DREAMING OTHER FUTURES (Kenya) fuses traditional Maasai IS THE FIRST STEP, CREATING SCIENCE myths and aesthetics with OTHER FUTURES THE NEXT Afrofuturist tropes like space The artists in this travel and life on other planets Media artist FRAN ILICH (Mexico) FICTION exhibition come in her series called MaaSci, a takes the radical next step and blend of Maasai and sci-fi. Women creates new futures in real life. from very different play a crucial role in exploring For this exhibition, Ilich built a backgrounds and and passing on the knowledge mix between a typical trade fair cultures, but they acquired during the space stand with printed graphics and all have one thing expeditions. a tiny pop-up cinema. Momochtli: Research for future space operas making an anti-colonial film co-op. CREATING in common: they do exploring the unlikely relationship Assisted by Gabriela Ceja, he OTHER FUTURES not accept the future between science fiction and 20th- and the visitors will explore the Jan 14 – Feb 11 2018, as a continuation of century Cantonese opera forms links between the indigenous Wed-Sun 12:00-21:00 contemporary reality the material for the installation agricultural productivity in Melkweg Expo, Windows On The World Part 3 Zapatista communities and free entrance as if it were carved of MING WONG (Singapore). experimental economies in the in stone. A cacophony of excerpts from States and other countries.
OTHER 46 FUTURES OTHER 47 FUTURES OTHER FUTURES ACADEMY NEW With stories by GRACE DILLON, NARRATIVES Professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University, FOR Oregon (USA/Anishinaabe); The Other Futures ALIXA GARCIA and NAIMA Academy will offer PENNIMAN (USA) of Climbing CLIMATE the opportunity PoeTree; DILMAN DILA (Uganda), author, filmmaker, documentary to reflect with maker, musician and activist; ACTION mind-changing the short film Pumzi by WANURI stories and views KAHIU, set in a future Kenya on climate change where water has become a scarce item and SOS EARTH-99% and action from resilient, a performative lecture (non-)Western by PETRA ARDAI / SPACE (NL, cultures, bringing The effects of climate change H), specialised in playing on the fresh approaches are so overwhelming that the margins of fiction and reality easiest way is to ignore that it in immersive collaborative to this very urgent is happening right before our storytelling and documentary topic. What are eyes. But more and more people theatre. OTHER FUTURES are realising that we need new Closure on Skype with scholar ACADEMY the radically new paradigms on narratives to cope with the cata DONNA HARAWAY (USA), author Feb 1 2018, 10:00-18:00 strophic use of the Earth and its of Staying with the Trouble: VondelCS, tickets: climate action that biosphere. What can we learn from Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Eventbrite / Other Futures storytellers can other cultures about the future offer us? of our planet? Surprise guest to be announced.
OTHER 48 FUTURES OTHER 49 FUTURES OTHER FUTURES OVERVIEW PRACTICAL INFORMATION
#DE- (Nnedi Okorafor) EXPO: CREATING our African perspective. African our OTHER FUTURES Science fiction only is the Science PRE-FESTIVAL genre that enables African THE FUTURE COLONIZING EVENTS January 14 – February 11 /
writers to envision a future from from a future envision to writers January 31 / 20:30-23:30 Wed-Sun 12:00-21:00 Melkweg Expo, Marnixstraat 409, SOLARIS BY ANDREJ 1017 PJ Amsterdam TARKOVSKI, WITH INTRODUCTION OTHER FUTURES Filmtheater De Uitkijk, ACADEMY Prinsengracht 452, February 1 / 10:00-18:00 1017 KE Amsterdam, VondelCS, Vondelpark 3, tickets: Filmtheater De Uitkijk 1071 AA Amsterdam
February 1 / 15:00-17:00 OTHER FUTURES WORKSHOP WITH FESTIVAL ROCHITA LOENEN-RUIZ February 2-4 The American Book Center, Melkweg, Lijnbaansgracht 234A, Spui 12, 1012 XA Amsterdam, 1017 PH Amsterdam FICTION ‘What is realistic?’
(Walidah Imarisha) (Walidah tickets: Eventbrite / Sugarfactory, Lijnbaansgracht Other Futureses 238, 1017 PH Amsterdam don’t we fiction, In science #VISIONARY have to stay contained withinhave what is possible. We can start can We possible. is what with the question ‘What do we ‘What we do with the question want?’, rather than thewant?’, question
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OTHER 52 FUTURES OTHER 53 FUTURES TEAM COLOPHON BRIGITTE VAN DER SANDE collaboration with Melkweg Artistic director, curator of film, JASMIJN ALKAF Producer of art, theory and Other Futures Other Futures Academy and Academy programme production assistant AMAL ALHAAG Curator of CATHERINE STEENBEEK music and performance Project team member STICHTING MOUFLON Erasmus School of History, Culture VAMBA SHERIF Curator of DAPHNE VERWEIJ Stichting Mouflon is an initiative and Communication, and founder literature Coordinator of volunteers of Paul Kempers and Brigitte van of the Community for the Histories RABIA SITABI Curator of der Sande and was founded in of the Future (CHIFT), Rotterdam anime and manga LOCATION PARTNERS 1992 with the aim of 'organizing MARJORIE BOSTON, director TIBOR BIJL Co-curator of Melkweg and/or presenting publications of RIGHTABOUTNOW INC., Other Futures Academy Sugarfactory and manifestations in the area Amsterdam PEGGY GEMERTS Film manager VondelCS of modern and contemporary art Dr. CISSIE FU, dean of the Faculty MARILOU VAN BUEREN The American Book Center in order to formulate new points of Culture and Community at Emily Marketing Filmtheater De Uitkijk of view and explore frontiers of Carr University of Art and Design, AUTOBAHN Graphic design knowledge in the arts’. Vancouver, Canada CEP Print production COVER IMAGE CREDITS Stichting Mouflon is not CINDY KERSEBORN, ENGELSWOORD Outer front: Ming Wong, Ascent to structurally subsidized but seeks documentary maker and founder Website construction the Heavenly Palace III funding and sponsors on a project- of Stichting Cimaké Foundation, RENÉE BORGONJEN Texts/ Inside front: Wanuri Kahiu, Pumzi by-project basis. Other Futures is Amsterdam editing website, programme Outer back: Larissa Sansour and the first project since 2009. MARTIJN LINDEBOOM, science booklet and online platform Søren Lind, In the Future They Ate fiction and fantasy writer and chair JANE BEMONT from the Finest Porcelain DIRECTOR Brigitte van der Sande of the Stichting ter bevordering Translations Dutch-English Inside back: Jacque Njeri, MaaSci BOARD Gina Dumfries, chair van het fantastisch genre HANSJE LO-A-NJOE Dirk Blikkendaal, treasurer (Association for the Promotion of Logistics & catering Jorinde Seijdel, secretary the Fantasy Genre), Groningen ROB KUIPHUIS The organization has made every effort Prof. dr. P. (PATRICIA) PISTERS, Operations manager to trace copyright holders and to obtain RECOMMENDATION professor of Film Studies in the ERNST HOUDKAMP their permission for the use of copyright COMMITTEE Department of Media Studies and Strategy manager material. Those who believe they have rights to materials that have not been Dr. ETIENNE AUGÉ, senior director of the Amsterdam School REMBRANDT BOSWIJK / credited should contact us. lecturer in the Department of for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the INDYVIDEO Technical producer Media & Communication at the University of Amsterdam Exhibition and film production in 2018 © Other Futures Festival
OTHER 54 FUTURES OTHER 55 FUTURES SPECIAL THANKS Community for the Histories Right About Now Inc. of the Future (CHIFT) of Godelieve Spaas Erasmus University Rotterdam Björn Stenvers Diederick Croese Stichting ter bevordering van Annet Dekker het fantastische genre DutchCulture Annette Wolfsberger Fantasize Film and Media Studies, University of Amsterdam Tom van Gestel Esther Gottschalk Hebban.nl Patrick van der Hijden Makerversity Amsterdam ... and all the critters whose Monnik | Studio names we do not mention but New Urban Collective who supported us in so many Prince Claus Fund unforgettable ways.
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