Monday, 9 September 2013

Saturday September 7 WARPZONE, FAY'S FILM FESTIVAL & THE HELLFIRE CLUB Part 1

7 September was indeed a day to remember - thanks to everyone who came along to be a part of WARP ZONE, FAY'S FILM FESTIVAL & THE HELLFIRE CLUB. If you weren't there, here's what you missed !
Comics, posters, paper-craft, 3D printed models Bead-art and a collectors corner with many rare and much sought after titles were quickly snapped up by discerning punters
In the Arcade Freak-Show, games, games and more games
The Residents Bad Day On The Midway gets lots of attention
The museum section of the exhibition received great interest from the flocks of nerds and geeks and normal people too. On the wall were included drawings by Simpson’s creator Matt Groening, Toru Iwatani  (the guy who invented PacMan), an original drawing from the Japanese Anime masterpiece Akira and a large piece from the creator of Spyro Charles Zembillas.
the afternoon set from WISEFIRE
FAY'S FILM FESTIVAL was well attended by those curious to see the cutting-edge of animation and film. Most of what was shown had not been screened before. Some of the films, indeed, were  receiving their world premiere at the Free Fringe. With artists representing many countries including Japan Holland and France it served as a glimpse into the very best of the latest.
Kimono play
THE HELLFIRE CLUB IN DE BUNKER : PART 1 Saturday 7 September from 20:30
Party night tonight !
And kicking it off was the amazing
AQUATRONIXXX


AQUATRONIXXX pull the pin out of the grenade
Volga, Andrea and Christian set the night on fire with their tribal beats and stinging riffs. Brutally honest and as true as 3 chords AQUATRONIXXX  were a perfect opening toa night of diverse acts and performers. 



Andrea solos on her paddle
'We might all be up shit creek but at least  I’ve got a paddle'



THE PITCH


Ryan takes to the stage with his hilarious improv show THE PITCH
photos  Ed Calderhead


Brilliantly funny Ryan took suggestions from the audience and wove a movie-pitch out of thin air. Asking an audience for suggestions is an incredibly dangerous thing to do. With really dumb suggestions from a pretty rough audience and one garrulous Irish heckler to deal with, Ryan still managed to make a silk-purse out of a sow’s ear, even making it look easy. Impov is a tightrope and Ryan works without a net.

Ryan brings The Heckler to the stage and stabs him through the heart
with a sharpened mushroom


THE NEW BIKE

Out of nowhere comes a woman. There's no smoking allowed !
She has a poem and she's not afraid to read it. 


George Dean in THE NEW BIKE

THE CROSSBREED
Sin Sin Collective freaked everyone out with their disturbing comedy inspiredby a story by Frans Kafka. Wonderfully weird.



Grainne Delaney, Sam Heady and George Dredd in Sin Sin Collective's THE CROSSBREED
NOORA HANNULA
Performing twice on Saturday 7 September - Noora's outdoor piece, THE PARK, presented in the afternoon sunshine of De Vondeltent, began the day . . . 

Noora Hannula in THE PARK
. . . and in the evening, like a candle in the dark, Noora  enthralled everyone at De Vondelbunker with her second piece, WHITE NOISE. 
WHITE NOISE

Fellow dancers Anni & Moreno received one of the biggest cheers of the night when they got down & dirty (I really mean it - that floor is filthy) in their brilliant, ephemeral piece about relationship, O SOLITUDE 

DE RUS
During a technical malfunction Rap artists from THRIVE and DE RUS rock De Bunker with some free-styleTHRIVE
THE DOPPELGANGERS 
THE DOPPELGANGERS paused for a picnic during their set but their music, visuals and shenanigans continued


 
 
 
WISEFIRE
WISEFIRE opened the musical acts earlier in the afternoon and now he closes the show with a banging set from his fuckin’ DS Nintendo!  Fantastic ! What a day - thanks everyone.


Saturday, 7 September 2013

Some gorgeous photos just in from yesterday's performance, HAPPY NUTS at Astarotheatro

   

Friday, 6 September 2013

FREE FRINGE Day 2


Its the day before Warp Zone, Fay's Film Festival & The Hellfire Club. We were busy beavers all day setting up our events and making the last minute preparations. We hope our hard works pays off and everyone has a great time tomorrow, we feel its shaping up to be a weekend to remember. :)

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Day 1 of the Free Fringe Festival Amsterdam


The Free Fringe Festival Amsterdam was officially launched today live on air at Radio Amsterdam FM with Rufus Kain in the host's chair and in the evening,the very funny HOTSPURS FREE FRINGE IMPROVTACULAR curated by Ryan Millar had a full house of delighted punters at Mezrab's beautiful new location on Veemkade next to Wilhelmina Pakhuis


Improv in the Amsterdam Free Fringe


Last scene of the night. Photo by Lieor van Os

We kicked off the Amsterdam Free Fringe last night with an improv show at Mezrab. It was an informal assemblage of accomplished performers from different pockets of the Amsterdam improv and comedy scenes. 

And we delivered two halves of improv comedy merriment to a nice-sized audience of Free Fringers, Mezrabians, and assorted others. It bodes well for the Free Fringe, for improv at Mezrab, and for creative cross-pollination.

But mostly it was just lots of fun. 

(Ryan Millar 2013)


Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Look what Yanna spotted outside the HUBO ! All the best people go there.

Monday, 2 September 2013

English Breakfast Radio Show

FREE FRINGE FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM were on the radio this morning talking about FAY'S FILM FESTIVAL, Ryan Millar's IMPROVTACULAR and how we performers are like prostitutes. Thanks fellas - we had FUN.

Fay's Film Festival

One of the many highlights of the Free Fringe Festival is going to be FAY'S FILM FESTIVAL. Fay tells us that many of the programmed films are made by some of today’s finest emerging film makers both from Holland and Japan as well as other places around the World. Here’s Fay to tell you more
Fay's Film Festival was also featured on ANIDAY, The Japanese Culture Newsblog for ANIWAY Magazine - you can read all about it here: http://aniday.nu/2013/09/02/korte-films-in-amsterdamse-atoomkelder/