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?

Today from 11.00-13.00 hrs a group of ASIF will use the Beehive Studio to record a podcast!

Today from 15:00-19.00 hrs, the Flamingo Room will be used by the Activistenpartij UvA for a graphic design workshop for other members of the party to pick up some basic skills for designing promotional material for student organisations.

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 14:00-17.00 hrs, the Co-Working Space will be used for Off-Screen Presents: Hot Takes – A Conversation Club Event

Off-Screen, the Study Association for Media Studies, is excited to host this year’s Conversation Club in a new format: Hot Takes! Inspired by social media’s ‘hear me out’ moments, Hot Takes gives students the chance to anonymously share their unpopular opinions on film, television, and digital media. During the event, submitted Hot Takes will be read aloud, and the submitters will explain and defend their stance, sparking lively, friendly, and insightful discussions. Come ready to share, listen, and debate!

Today from 14:00-17.00 hrs, the Flamingo Room will be used for aK-DOCS mentoring session with Korean filmmakers. K-DOCS, a documentary platform that supports Korean documentary producers, will participate in IDFA 2025 as part of the South Korea Delegation. As part of the program, a mentoring session will be held for Korean documentary producers, featuring Dutch-Afghan filmmaker Aboozar Amini. He will deliver a lecture focusing on how he has built his career within IDFA and the European documentary industry, sharing insights into developing networks with international documentary professionals. The session will consist of a 50-minute lecture followed by a 30-minute Q&A, offering an opportunity for emerging Korean documentarists to strengthen their global competitiveness and apply these insights to real-world professional contexts.

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 A Woman Like Eve (dir. Nouchka van Brakel, 1979), with an introduction by Jette Kalma.

Taking in a final little bit of warmth now that the weather is getting really cold through a Dutch summertime lesbian romance. This weeks film ‘Een vrouw als Eva’ (A Woman Like Eve) is also the second female directed feature film in Dutch cinematic history. The film follows Eva (Monique van de Ven), a burnt out housewife and mother of two children who gets sent on a holiday to the south of France by her husband. While on the holiday she meets and starts falling in love with a woman, Liliane (Maria Schneider). The story is a delicate love story between the women, where Eva has to accept the feelings she has for Liliane, but also deals with the complicated societal pressures lesbians and women in general had and have to deal with. The film also had a lot going on behind the scenes, from the main actress threatening to sue if she didn’t get the role to the entire cast and crew being attacked by a group of feminists while filming. The film gives us a unique and layered portrayal of a lesbian relationship and is an incredibly interesting part of dutch and general film history but is not talked about enough!

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 Bluebeard (dir. Catherine Breillat, 2009), with an introduction by Fatme Hawarin.

In her adaptation of the seventeenth-century French folktale Bluebeard, Catherine Breillat offers a tender twist on the monster inspired by knight Gilles de Rais –companion to Joan of Arc and infamous serial child murderer. As we listen to a young Catherine softly reading the tale to her older sister in a dust-lit attic, the film drifts into 1697, where the two girls, now incarnated as Marie-Catherine and Marie-Anne, mourn the recent death of their father. Left without dowries, they accept an invitation to a courtly dance hosted by Lord Bluebeard. Though divided by a disquieting disparity in years, Catherine and Bluebeard form an unexpectedly affectionate bond and soon marry. When the lord departs on distant business, he entrusts his young wife with a mysterious ring of keys to his vast fortress. Despite the sanguine prophecy quietly hanging over their union, the girl’s longing for her husband cannot but flourish in his absence. In magnificent Breillatian fashion, the film is both intellectually exacting and visually sumptuous in its restraint composition, framing Bluebeard less a monstrous villain than a vessel of female desire –too treacherous and radiant to be contained within societal mores of girlhood.