Saturday 17 January WOW organizes a movie night in the warm atmosphere of the fashion exhibition OVERWINTER. On the occasion of the Amsterdam Hotel Night 2015 organizes this cosy event which is accessible for anyone interested to get to know the concept of WOW; our hostel combined with artist in residencies and our cultural program. Come to WOW to overwinter the cold, together with family and friends, sit with us under warm blankets and enjoy our hot soup, hot drinks and the winter movie ‘Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind’, selected for us by West’ival. The program will start with two short videos carefully chosen for kids of all ages!!
Program OVERWINTER Movie Night
18.00 Pop-up Shop Wintervacht and Winter in Holland + Hot pea soup (‘erwtensoep’!) and hot drinks (Glühwein) in the Green Gallery
20.00 Start program with 2 short movies selected by West’ival:
Fear of Flying: A bird with a FEAR OF FLYING tries to avoid heading South for the winter. A live-action-animated short film.
Goodbey Mister the Vries: (93) sits at his window awaiting his death. Until one cold winter day he is surprised by the arrival of a parcel. When he subsequently sees a pigeon flying off he knows that this is no ordinary message. His time has come. Mister De Vries momentarily hesitates to open it. When he chances it, he finds his old Frisian skates. There’s only one thing to be done…
20.20 Screening of the movie ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science-fiction comedy-drama film about an estranged couple who have each other erased from their memories, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of science fiction,psychological thriller, and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and romantic love. The story is about a man, Joel Barish, who is heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory. He then decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake. You can erase someone from your mind. Getting them out of your heart is another story.
22.08 End of the movie: hot drinks.
23.00 END
If you want to join the movie night, please let us know if you are planning to join here: reservations@wow-amsterdam.nl
