Films in Wageningen

15:30u Blue Giant
19:00u Playing The Changes
21:00u Let's Get Lost

 

Jazz Film Festival

 

Sometimes a good idea is very simple: Bring together a few jazz lovers from Oosterbeek and Wageningen who also love film and before you know it you have a jazz film festival, where jazz lovers from all over the region come together. Simply because music makes life so much more beautiful, phenomenal jazz films are made that you must see, and great combinations can be created around it with live music and speakers.

 

On November 1, 2 & 3, 2024, the third edition of the Jazz Film Festival will take place in Visum Mundi in Wageningen (November 2) and Filmhuis Oosterbeek (November 1 & 3). A weekend of jazz films! With Q&As, introductions, and just good jazz people.

 

Wageningen November 2

On Saturday, November 2, the Wageningen jazz film festival will take place in Visum Mundi. 3 jazz films will be shown that day.

These are:

- Blue Giant
- Playing the Changes
- Let's Get Lost

 

 

 

15:30u Blue Giant

 

This movie is part of our Subtitle Sunday program. International movies with English subtitles. It’s a great opportunity for everyone who does not speak Dutch to enjoy the beautiful movies the world has to offer in all those different languages. Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. Read more about the program. (AND: on the first Saturday of this month as well!!)

Dai Miyamoto's life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Dai, a former high school basketball player, picks up a saxophone and begins practicing day and night, determined to become one of the best of all time. He leaves his boring hometown for the vibrant nightclubs of Tokyo, but soon discovers that the life of a professional musician is not for the faint of heart. His passion eventually wins out over the cocky but talented pianist Yukinori, and after Dai convinces his friend Shunji to learn to play the drums, they start a new jazz trio whose rough sound contains a raw energy that quickly captures the attention of the local crowd . But what does it take to be truly great?

 

Cast & Crew
o.a. Yuki Yamada, Shotaro Mamiya, Amane Okayama

Direction
Yuzuru Tachikawa

 

 

 

19:00u Playing The Changes

 

Incl Q&A with cameraman Jorne Tielemans

 

Documentary about the life of Darius Brubeck, son of the legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck. Darius lived in South Africa during Apartheid and founded Africa's first university jazz program there. This was accessible to everyone. As a result, at a time when South Africa was politically, culturally and socially divided, he brought together people who were not equal in the eyes of the government. Darius showed that music has no color and jazz is the embodiment of connection.

In addition to a lot of music, the documentary tells stories about the life of Darius Brubeck. What it was like growing up with a legendary father and how he discovered his calling? His father's zeitgeist was the Cold War and that is where Darius discovered the unifying role of music. Dave Brubeck was the first jazz musician to perform behind the Iron Curtain in 1958, including in Poland, where jazz music was received as the music of freedom.

This had a major impact on the life of 10-year-old Darius and with this knowledge he subsequently gave meaning to jazz music in his own zeitgeist: the Apartheid regime in the 80s-90s. Director Michiel ten Kleij followed Darius Brubeck around the world for five years.

In addition to archive footage, the film also contains interviews about the lives of jazz musicians during Apartheid, the connection between the two eras of both father and son, as well as the similarity between Dave and Darius Brubeck and how the apple did not fall far from the tree.

 

Cast & Crew
Darius Brubeck

Direction
Michiel ten Kleij

 

21:00u Let’s Get Lost

 

How close to the legend can you get today? We start with an eyewitness intro with Wim and Ria Wigt who accompanied Chet Baker in the last years of his musical life.

The classic 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost is a fascinating portrait of legendary jazz trumpeter and style icon Chet Baker, made by filmmaker and photographer Bruce Weber. Using interviews, archive footage from the 1950s, music recordings and images of Baker's final years, Weber shows the appeal and many flaws of the trumpet player who was destroyed by his drug addiction.

 

Cast & Crew
Chet Baker

Direction
Bruce Weber

 

Tickets

More information and tickets for the jazz films of this festival in Wageningen can be ordered via Visum Mundi.

Orde your tickets here.

Oosterbeek November 1 and 3

On Friday 1 and Sunday 3 November the jazz film festival will take place in the film house in Oosterbeek. 

The jazz film festival opens on Friday with Let's Get Lost. After the series of films on Saturday, November 2 in Wageningen, the jazz film festival continues on Sunday in Oosterbeek. Kicking off at 11:00 am with Blue Giant, followed by LAVISH at 3:00 pm. The festival ends with a jazz film lecture from 8:00 PM.

More information about the Oosterbeek part of the jazz film festival can be found at De Kultuurwerkplaats.