Amsterdam Global Village

Amsterdam Global Village

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  • Genre(s): Documentary
  • Language(s): Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Director(s): Johan van der Keuken
  • Duration: 4h 5min
  • Music: Noshka Van der Lely,Dionys Breukers
  • Award(s): Cinema Recherche 1997 (Won)
    Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize 1997 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Mama Mania, Sheep Hero
  • Story:
    "I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The city is presented as a place where people from all corners of the world live, who all exert their cultural influence on the life in the city. With a motor courier as his central figure, the filmmaker introduces the audience to birds of different feathers. We see diverse cultural expressions, like the house scene, the entry of St. Nicholas and a Ghanese mourning ritual. The binding factor in the film is the concept of 'travelling', in other words Amsterdam as a global village. The camera travels through the film in three ways: over land, over water (canals) and through the air.
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STORY

Story
"I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The city is presented as a place where people from all corners of the world live, who all exert their cultural influence on the life in the city. With a motor courier as his central figure, the filmmaker introduces the audience to birds of different feathers. We see diverse cultural expressions, like the house scene, the entry of St. Nicholas and a Ghanese mourning ritual. The binding factor in the film is the concept of 'travelling', in other words Amsterdam as a global village. The camera travels through the film in three ways: over land, over water (canals) and through the air.

AWARDS

Won
Cinema Recherche Award

1997 | Johan van der

Grolsch Film Award

1996 | Johan van der

Nominations

TRIVIA

Trivia

Whether or not you have already walked the cobblestones of the mythical Amsterdam, it is a stunning immersion in the living heart of the city that allows this film to look like a monument. And it is through a path of pure cinema that van der Keuken invites us for a year in his huge global village. A path lined with surprises, detours, performances, anecdotes. A path that is both meticulously drawn and resolutely open to the real, as much in the script as in the filming and editing, to give substance to a city, at a time, by exploiting perfectly the power of synthesis of the cinematographic form. "Amsterdam Global Village" is a poem, a symphony, the sometimes cubist, sometimes pointillist portrait of a city at once extraordinary and venerable. It comes out with the feeling of having stayed there for a long time, to have been projected in the mid-1990s and to have traveled in the world that the filmmaker then gave us to understand. Sylvain Baldus

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