Today from 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Only Angels Have Wings (dir. Howard Hawks, 1939), with an introduction by Parker Burrows.

Starry-eyed tourist Bonnie Lee takes a short layover in stormy port town Barranca and is quickly charmed by a community of adrenaline-junkie mail carrier pilots who live and die for the dangerous rush of their job. Only Angels Have Wings emblematizes the passionate signatures of iconic Hollywood filmmaker Howard hawks, one of the first directors to be designated the reverential label auteur by the future faces of the French New Wave. Hawks’ magical gift of seamlessly navigating between genres is on full display as the film erratically dances from Hays Code-defying romance to screwball comedy to melodramatic tragedy to high-octane suspense in just a few blinks of an eye. Just as deliriously impulsive are the characters, whose every action is ruled by the looming presence of the death drive: their swelling professions of passion, their sudden visions of the afterlife, and everything in between. Featuring star turns from Jean Taylor and Cary Grant and the breakout role for soon-to-be-superstar Rita Hayworth, Only Angels Have Wings presents an iconic era of Old Hollywood cinema that remains potent with danger and desire.

Today from 18.30-21.30 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 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 their ‘Terrible Movie Night: An Interactive Cult Screening’!

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 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Landscape in the Mist (dir. Theo Angelopoulos, 1988), with an introduction by Gia Tue Trinh.

In the midst of a silent morning, Voula and her five-year-old brother, Alexandros, wake up and slip out of Athens to find their dad, said to be waiting for them in Germany. Two reluctant Odysseuses are thrown into an errant pilgrimage where Greek myths dissolve into existential dread, absurdist imageries, and perpetual absence of “home”. Drifting through the liminal spaces of railroads, highways, and city streets, two children find themselves engulfed in a series of desolate landscapes. In the silence of the mist, something disquieted, eroded yet mythic and metaphysical about collective memory and loss is spoken out.

Theo Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist becomes, perhaps, a point of departure for reflecting on and beyond the “failures” of contemporary life and the unembellished material and symbolic violence that it carries.

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 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 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 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (Eldar Ryazanov, 1975), with an introduction by Evangeline Pushchin.

This week’s film is a Soviet classic, a romantic comedy directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film emerged during the later Brezhnev era, a time marked by both cultural stagnation and a strong appetite for light, relatable entertainment on Soviet television. The story follows Zhenya Lukashin, a mild-mannered Moscow doctor who, after celebrating New Year’s Eve with friends at a bathhouse, becomes so inebriated that he is accidentally put on a plane to Leningrad. Half-asleep, Zhenya assumes he is still in Moscow, takes a taxi to what he believes is his own address, and manages to enter an apartment that looks exactly like his own. He is unaware that the real tenant, Nadya Sheveleva, will soon return home. The shock of discovering a strange man in her apartment sparks a chain of comedic and romantic developments. As the night unfolds, Zhenya and Nadya clash, connect, quarrel, and gradually reveal their frustrations with their own lives and relationships. Their interactions—by turns awkward, tender, and sharply funny—form the emotional core of the film.

Premiering on Soviet television on New Year’s Eve, the film quickly became a holiday tradition. Families all over the USSR would gather annually to watch its blend of humor, gentle satire, and heartfelt romance. Over time, The Irony of Fate has remained one of the most beloved and enduring films of the Soviet era, still broadcast every New Year and cherished for its warm nostalgia and commentary on everyday Soviet life.

Today from 14.00-18.00 hrs, a groupf of Media and Music Studies staff is hosting a film screening with visiting filmmakers from Indonesia, followed by a discussion, in the Co-Working Space.

Today from 18.00-20.00 hrs, BuzzHouse’s Beehive Studio will be used for a board meeting of AMIA.

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 9.30-11.45 hrs a group of student will use the Beehive Studio to record a podcast!

Today from 17.00-20.00 hrs a group of student will use the Beehive Studio to record a podcast!

Today from 16:00-20:00 hrs the Flamingo Room will be used by Spotlight UvA for another boardgame night!

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 9.00-13.00 hrs a group of student will use the Beehive Studio to record a podcast for the Writing Women into History course!

Today from 15.00-18.00 hrs, a group of students will record a podcast in the Beehive Studio!

Today from 18.30-21.30 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 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988), with an introduction by Gia Tue Trinh.

In the midst of a silent morning, Voula and her five-year-old brother, Alexandros, wake up and slip out of Athens to find their dad, said to be waiting for them in Germany. Two reluctant Odysseuses are thrown into an errant pilgrimage where Greek myths dissolve into existential dread, absurdist imageries, and perpetual absence of “home”. Drifting through the liminal spaces of railroads, highways, and city streets, two children find themselves engulfed in a series of desolate landscapes. In the silence of the mist, something disquieted, eroded yet mythic and metaphysical about collective memory and loss is spoken out. Theo Angelopoulos’s “Landscape in the Mist” becomes, perhaps, a point of departure for reflecting on and beyond the “failures” of contemporary life and the unembellished material and symbolic violence that it carries.

Today from 10.00-13.30 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 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 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Only Yesterday (dir. Isao Takahata, 1991), with an introduction by Enrico Maria Gennari.

Memories are a mysterious and fascinating concept. Sometimes, we try to remember a specific moment, a person’s face, or a particular smell. But most of the time, a memory resurfaces without our wanting it to. In Only Yesterday (おもひでぽろぽろ), we follow 28-year-old Taeko as her trip to the countryside morphs into a journey in her own past. Taeko is in a strange moment in her life. She isn’t married, which is unusual for a woman her age in 1982 Japan; she lives and works in Tokyo, but dreams about life in the countryside; she doubts her future and unconsciously looks for answers in her past. Isao Takahata was a master of animation. In this film, he uses gorgeous close-ups of mundane objects and precise, mechanical gestures to convey their profound meaning to the characters. Through Taeko, he explores life in post-war Japan, a girl’s struggle with puberty and love, and a woman’s search for meaning. You will love this film if you like Yasujirō Ozu’s works, especially Late Spring (晩春). Expect the flawless drawings and animation (those flowers, those trees!) you see in every Studio Ghibli film, with a more realistic setting and plot.

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 18:00-21.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will host their next screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is Pillow Talk (dir. Michael Gordon, 1959), with an introduction by Michael Kalma.

This is the first of three movies where Doris Day and Rock Hudson play lovers, Pillow Talk was a smash hit when it came out in 1959 & yet the studio had problems with it during production, as it was deemed “too sexy” according to the strict Hays code. Even the title was too much at first, I mean how dare you imply that a man and a woman lie in the same bed! Playboy songwriter Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) shares a telephone party line with Jan Morrow (Doris Day). When she unsuccessfully files a complaint about him for constantly using their shared line to flirt with a different woman almost every day, Brad finds out she is rather pretty and tries to seduce her by disguising himself as a Texas rancher. All seems to go according to plan when suddenly a mutual friend & feelings get in the way...

With songs sung by Doris Day herself, stunning outfits & gorgeous sets & colours, what’s not to love?