Today from 18.00-21.30 hrs the next MediaMakers session will take place in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space!

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is a club designed to build a social and creative community where UvA students (of any program or discipline) can:

🎬 Develop artistic and professional practice

🤝 Collaborate on projects

📸 Explore visual media production, event coordination, programming, and more!

🍹 Just hang out, grab a drink, and meet new people

Whether you’re into media, arts, or any other discipline, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is the place to connect, collaborate, and create.

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 welcomes all students interested in content creation: from fiction and documentary to advertising, social media, music videos, podcasts, and more.

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

The Alumni Circle Media Studies warmly invites all UvA Media Studies alumni to come together for a reunion! Have you lose touch with your former classmates? Then this is the perfect opportunity to reconnect! ✨

On Friday, April 17, from 6:30-10:00pm, we’re hosting a special (and free) night for Media Studies alumni at the department’s creative space BuzzHouse 🐝 in Oudemanhuispoort (E-building). After a walk-in hour, the program kicks off at 7:30pm with two inspiring mini-lectures by (former) Media Studies staff members Dan Hassler-Forest and Catherine Lord. Afterwards, we’ll raise a glass or two and catch up over drinks and bites (🍺🍷 on us!).

In short: this is one alumni reunion you don't want to miss. Be sure to register in advance, as capacity is limited to 80 attendees!

This event is organized by the Alumni Circle Media Studies (UvA), consisting of Paul Blank (chair), Maarten Reesink (secretary), Emiel Martens (treasurer), Maarten Stoltz (leaving the board…), Timna Rauch (new!), Dania Awin (new!) and Saskia Baaij-Verhoeven (new!).

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 10.00-17.30 hrs, two groups of students will record a podcast in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 10.00-16.00 hrs, a group of students will record a podcast in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 18.00-21.30 hrs the next MediaMakers session will take place in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space!

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is a club designed to build a social and creative community where UvA students (of any program or discipline) can:

🎬 Develop artistic and professional practice

🤝 Collaborate on projects

📸 Explore visual media production, event coordination, programming, and more!

🍹 Just hang out, grab a drink, and meet new people

Whether you’re into media, arts, or any other discipline, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is the place to connect, collaborate, and create.

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 welcomes all students interested in content creation: from fiction and documentary to advertising, social media, music videos, podcasts, and more.

Today from 10.30-17.00 hrs, a group of students will record a podcast in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Herzsprung (Helke Misselwitz, 1992), with an introduction by Fatme Hawarin.

After a decade at DEFA’s documentary studios, Helke Misselwitz makes her narrative debut with the fairytale ‘Herzsprung’. She situates her romance within the post-reunification pall that hangs over the titular East German village: goose feathers drift like snow through the kitchens of defunct factories; Eva-Maria Hagen still sings her melancholic folk songs. Russian soldiers withdraw, leaving behind little more than the echo of rhapsodic disco tunes, as businesses shutter and the villagers drift into quiet despair.

Johanna, a young cook, first loses her job, then her husband. She dyes her hair red, steps into red shoes, boards a red train carriage – red for love, and then for blood. One evening, she meets a foreign ‘stranger’, a man entangled in obscure dealings. After he sells his bicycle, she offers him a lift to the station. He returns, stubbornly searching for her throughout Herzsprung, taking work at a highway snackbar in order to stay close.

Their tentative romance unfolds amid mounting hostility, its most violent expression found in the relentless attacks of a leather-clad gang of right-wing bikers. Misselwitz would later describe the bittersweet nature of her fairytale, “that one’s heart can leap with both joy and with sorrow.”

Today from 17.30-19.30 hrs, a group of students will record a podcast in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 17.15-21.30 hrs, a group of students will record a podcast in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today from 19.00-21.30 hrs the Co-Working Space of BuzzHouse/Humanities Venture Lab will be used by Off-Screen, the study association for Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, for a Screenwriting Workshop!

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Demons (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971), with an introduction by Dean Post

Right off the bat this Shakespearean tragedy of revenge is imbued with what can only be described as pure evil. This is a nightmare that does not end, a descent into hell that Dante would envy. Coming from the director of “Funeral Parade of Roses” and a whole bunch of avant-garde experimental films, “Demons” feels positively unreal, with a theatre stage-like mise-en-scene shrouded in a dark fog and chiaroscuro lighting in stunning black-and-white. Opening with a shot of the sundown in color, the film announces this black-and-white cinematography as a conscious choice, lending darkness to both shadow and blood; in accordance with the tagline that boldly states, “the world is a sea of blood”. An unrightfully forgotten film of obsession and madness – told through a performance by Katsuo Nakamura that rivals the likes of Peter Lorre in “M” – that is sure to horrify and intrigue.

Today from 15:00-17:30 hrs Plein Publiek, a student-led, non-profit initiative connecting students and young professionals with the public sector through educational and societal events, will host an interactive workshop exploring a concrete public policy or societal challenge in the Co-Working Space!

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Something Different (Věra Chytilová, 1963), with an introduction by Nimaye Nambiar.

Věra Chytilová’s singular start to the Czech New Wave and feature film debut, “Something Different” (1963), has the finesse of a fluid pirouette. Following a parallel montage structure, the film juxtaposes Eva, a gymnast approaching her thirties, with Vera, a frustrated housewife, who begins an extramarital affair. Chytilová’s concern here is as much about striking a pose as it is about balancing an act. While both women seek to stretch further the limits of the roles they must make a living from, Chytilová composes and revisits a series of extraordinary arabesques. Far from any digestible comparison, the film demands careful attention to the conditions and subversions that are unique (at times, intersecting) to Eva and Vera. Pointed toes, tucked heels, and bursts of motion parley with contradictions in the workplace and domestic alike. “Something Different” sustains a sense of play and unrestrained humour, scandalous and cause for censorship under Soviet rule at the time, which would reappear mischievously in Chytilová’s renown feature of the New Wave, “Daisies” (1966).

Today from 12.00-22.00 hrs the team of Radio Swammerdam will have their weekly studio and office day at our Beehive Studio!

Today between 14.00-17.00 hrs you can, when you have made an appoinment, pick up or drop off your MediaMakers equipment at BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio!

Today from 15.00-17.30 hrs, the Co-Working Space will be used by Off-Screen for a Career Clarity Workshop!

Today from 18:30-21.30 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970), with an introduction by Enrico Maria Gennari.

A man kills his lover, leaves her apartment, and drives to the police station. We, the audience, might believe that he is turning himself in, only to find out that he is a high-ranking police officer who just got a big promotion.

This is the premise of Elio Petri’s Investigation, the movie that won him an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. With this film, Petri consolidates his collaboration with lead actor Gian Maria Volonté and composer Ennio Morricone. Volonté masterfully plays the “dottore”, a character who does not need a first name, because he is the physical embodiment of power and violence. Morricone contributes with yet another stunning melody, creating a bizarre, almost surreal atmosphere that surrounds the unfolding events of the film.

Investigation is a reflection on power, justice, and impunity. It perfectly encapsulates the political climate in Italy during the late 60s and early 70s, and yet it tells a story which is still tragically relevant today.

Today from 18.00-21.30 hrs the next MediaMakers session will take place in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space!

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is a club designed to build a social and creative community where UvA students (of any program or discipline) can:

🎬 Develop artistic and professional practice

🤝 Collaborate on projects

📸 Explore visual media production, event coordination, programming, and more!

🍹 Just hang out, grab a drink, and meet new people

Whether you’re into media, arts, or any other discipline, 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 is the place to connect, collaborate, and create.

𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 welcomes all students interested in content creation: from fiction and documentary to advertising, social media, music videos, podcasts, and more.