Kinshasa Symfonie

Kinshasa Symfonie

Live interview from Berlin with Martin Baer – director. Two hundred orchestral musicians are playing Beethoven’s Ninth – Freude schöner Götterfunken. A power cut strikes just a few bars before the last movement. Problems like this are the least of the worries facing the only symphony orchestra in the Congo. In the 15 years of…

Kat von D

Kat von D

Writer of the tattoo chronicles but firstly best know for the TV series Miaimi Inc. Kat von D came down to Amsterdam and had a chat with us in the studio very, very early in the morning after a jetlag and us all in need for good coffee. That day at least 10 other interviews…

The Pipe

The Pipe

Director Richie speaks to me and Mike Berry live on his wonderful documentary about a small village in Ireland fighting for their rights and sanity against the giant Shell, who wants to drill for oil and gas just of the coast of their lovely village and hence trying to bring a pipeline straight through their…

Mila Turalic

Mila Turalic

Director of the film Cinema Komunisto explains on her first encounter with Avala film: ”I first went into the Avala Film studios when I was a student in film school. Sent there to get equipment for a student film, I found myself overwhelmed by the atmosphere of the place. It was immense, a ghost town…

YDU at Hermitage Amsterdam

YDU at Hermitage Amsterdam

The Amsterdam Hermitage museum was proud to present 10 designers: Young Designers United- based in Amsterdam they were mentored by Claes Iversen – an upcoming Danish/Dutch designer also showing at the Amsterdam International Fashion Week- and showed each a mini collection inspired on the current exhibition ”at the Russian Court”. On the 27th of January…