Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Death of a Bureaucrat

Dimanche, 9 Juin

Can Dialectics Break Bricks Cinema: Death of a Bureaucrat

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Death of a Bureaucrat (La muerte de un burócrata) * by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea * 1966 * 85 minutes * In Cuban Spanish with English subtitles

doors open at 8.30, intro and film start at 9:00

A key black comedy in Cuban film history, directed by one of its maverick filmmakers Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Memories of Underdevelopment, Strawberry and Chocolate) who chose to stay in post-revolutionary Cuba and supported its socialist cause but never thought twice about criticizing the regime's shortcomings.

In this film director Alea lampoons the stuffy and insane world of bureaucratic red tape. The journey begins when a widow realizes there was an important document in the pocket of her deceased husband who has already been buried, and needs an official permit to have the body exhumed. This starts an absurd chain of events with a razor-sharp Buñuelian sense of black humor. 

Date & heure: 

Dimanche, 9 Juin, 2024 - 20:30

Catégorie: 

  • film
Joe's Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
1092 EZ Amsterdam
Pays-Bas

Directions: 

Train station Amsterdam Muiderpoort, 10 minutes walk --- Metro station Wibaustraat, 15 minutes walk --- Tram 19 or Bus 41, Bus/tramhalte: Oostpoort, 1 minute walk

Squat: 

Presently squatted

Depuis Juin 2005, Joe's Garage est un centre social autonome, squatté, un lieu politique, un lieu de rencontre dans la quartier Transvaal pour les squatters et les non-squatters, sans aucune subvention, un lieu à but non lucratif, autogéré, tenu par des volontaires.

catégories: 

  • conseils/aide / librairie/bibliothèque/infokiosque / cours/ateliers / discussion/présentation / exposition / film / repas / magasin gratuit / rencontre / musique / théâtre

horaires d'ouverture: 

(Décembre 2024)
Lundi: 19h, Cantine populaire Vegazulu
Mardi: 19h-20h30 KSU Oost, permanence d'assistance au squat
Mercredi: 19h-21h, Cours de hollandais*
Jeudi: 19h, Cantine populaire Vegazulu*
Vendredi: 20h, Aman molli, atelier de musique modale
Samedi: 14h-18h, Zone de gratuité
Dimanche: 18h-20h, Radical Sunday School
Dimanche: 20h30, Soirée cinéma*
(*) irrégulier
Chaque 2ème samedi du mois, 19h-20h30, assemblée publique de Joe's Garage
Chaque 2ème dimacnhe du mois, 14h-18h, All Crafts Are Beautiful

Weekly programme of film screenings in a circuit of underground / self-organised venues. Forgotten movies that should have been classics, neglected flics, lesser-known gems, always with a personal introduction by the programmer. All films in English, or with English subtitles.

catégories: 

  • film

horaires d'ouverture: 

mostly Sunday to Thursday at about 7 different underground locations.