Eglantine Canal ~ Amsterdam Streets
Egelantiersgracht (Eglantine Canal) standing at the Hilletjesbrug bridge (bridge 125) last week in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam. Film : 20200202 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Hilletjesbrug bridge 125 ~ Amsterdam Streets
Hilletjesbrug bridge 125 spanning the Egelantiersgracht canal , into the Eerste Leliedwarsstraat – with the Westerkerk church in the background , Jordaan district last Tuesday close to 6 PM, Amsterdam. Film : 20200130 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Rozenstraat ~ Amsterdam Streets
Pile of discarded christmas trees and a row of ‘Amsterdammertjes’ (dutch for ‘little ones from Amsterdam’) – the red-brown steel traffic bollards – 10 days ago in the Rozenstraat (Prinsengracht in background) in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam. Film : 20200128 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Almoner Bridge 68 ~ Amsterdam Streets
Two minutes of people and streetcars (GVB) in the rain this month on the Aalmoezeniersbrug (Almoner bridge), bridge #68 in the Leidsestraat, spanning the Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam. Film : 20200126 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Kriterion ~ Amsterdam
A cinema steeped in history … ‘Kriterion’ began life as an Amsterdam student association involved in hiding and saving many Jews (an estimated 400 jewish children (Ref. 2) from Nazi persecution – next in 1945 the students opened cinema Kriterion (Ref. 3) in the former building (until 1942) of the ‘Handwerkers Vriendenkring’ association of mainly Jewish diamond workers – and 75 year later in Kriterion – still runned by the Amsterdam students – last night – arthouse cinema : screening of Beyond Index and post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Gerald Van Der Kaap.
Ref. 1 – https://www.kriterion.nl
Ref. 2 – https://www.cineville.nl/films/kriterion-herdenkt
Ref. 3 – Amsterdam Students Run Movie House. In : Higher Education – SemiMonthly publication of the higher education division – United States Office of Education, Fedural Security Agency. Vol. III, No. 7 , Washigton, D.C. December 1, 1946; Page 10 .
