Reminder: opening I’M FINE, MATURING and more

Welcome this Friday [removed] to the opening of Melissa Mabesoone’s first institutional exhibition. In two rooms, a shifting universe unfolds where characters glide effortlessly across time, roles and [removed];During the opening, we are introduced to the inhabitant of the teenage bedroom: Crywanker — a melancholic teenangel, forever doomed. His room is lined with posters of his idols. One of them, Goldscammer, literally steps out of the wall. Her short film Maturation Station will be screened in our cinema. The evening concludes with Teenage Dream Karaoke, songs escaping from the teenage room.

Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was one of the most idiosyncratic and influential voices in film history. Often called the grande dame of the French New Wave, she was in reality always just a step aside—or forward. Varda blended fiction and documentary, personal observation and social insight, with a rare lightness and sense of humor. With its focus on VARDA, NW invites you to (re)discover her work in six evenings.

A one-day gathering to explore, acknowledge, and celebrate experiences of bodily and emotional change. The (peri)menopause is not merely an individual concern, but a shared life phase that has long been marginalised in public discourse. Through workshops, conversations with specialists, and a preview film screening, we create a temporary space for exchange, mutual recognition, and collective vitality, inspired by Dress to Kill by Pauline Curnier Jardin.

You are welcome to join for the full day or to take part at any moment. Please note that the daytime programme will be conducted in Dutch, while the film screening will be in English.

Through provocative historical and contemporary short films, this programme unsettles conventional images of desire, identity and performance. The selected films move between experiment and narrative, between ritual and play, and show how the cinematic body can constantly reinvent itself.