May 6, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
I returned to EYE, the new film museum and cinema just north of the IJ water, on the other side of Central Station. I just love the building and the type of films that are shown there. None of the recent Hollywood blockbusters but lots of vintage cinema and current arthouse films. It's great! Today I went to see Play, a Swedish film, set in Gothenburg, about a group of boys that are being terrorised by another group of boys. Rather a confrontational film, especially if you have been bullied when you were a kid. Some of the scenes were just quite disturbing. The cinematography was very special, with practically all scenes shot at a great distance from the actors, with a strong zoom lens. That was a very effective way of shooting the film, because it seemed to make the bullying all the more intimidating, as if the young (superb) actors were left on their own. The picture is of some of the buildings on Warmoesstraat, with their backs on what once was the Amstel River.
Today I also sent out an email to the person in charge of the owners' association of our building, and in the mail I asked him dozens of questions about the things that went wrong with our building. Some of the questions were of course about the upstairs neighbours, because I suspect they derailed the project by having some work carried on at the same time and by the same builder. It sounds a bit cryptic here but it's too complicated to describe in a couple of paragraphs... and probably best not vented here at all. I was glad the mail was sent out though. These things always take a lot of time for me to do, because I tend to mull over issues quite long before voicing my frustrations or objections. At least this step was taken now.
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