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2025
Tags: Helsinki, film
Total Freedom: Youth, Play and Insurgency
From Dada to techno, from protest to dancefloor, Juha van ’t Zelfde’s 2022 film RoXY shows how young people in Amsterdam, through play, collectivity and refusal, created spaces of resistance and imagination. The revolt of Homo Ludens reminds us that nightlife is more than entertainment—it is a rehearsal for freedom, a collective uprising against the limits imposed by capitalism, and an opening towards new possibilities for living otherwise.
The screening of RoXY will be introduced by the artist, and followed by a conversation.
Juha van ’t Zelfde is a Finnish-Dutch artist, organiser, and teacher based in Amsterdam. Their work explores the relationship between history, experience, and possibility, emerging in response to specific social, economic and political conditions.
They work with sound, moving image, pedagogy, and architecture to make room for desire, grief, refusal, imagination, and struggle. They focus on the role of solidarity, mutual aid, and collective joy in imagining a liberatory culture — one that moves beyond domination and extraction.
The event is organized by Frame Finland and Taidekoulu Maa