Kroonjuwelen

Kroonjuwelen
Produced by Stunned Film
Music by Big Marty & Marshall Blueberry
Combo Di Conjo
Delic
DJ Automatic
I-Wah
Kubus
Men-O-Dee
Cinematography Tjitte Jan Nieuwkoop
Edited by Chris van Oers
Production
company
Stunned Film
Distributed by TopNotch / PIAS
Release dates
  • October 11, 2006
Running time
 76 minutes
Country Netherlands
Language Dutch

Kroonjuwelen - Hard Times, Good Times, Better Times (English: Crown jewels) is a 2006 documentary film produced and directed by independent Dutch film crew Stunned Film.[1]

This film premiered 11 October 2006 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. The film is entirely spoken in Dutch, but English subtitles are shown.[2]

On Saturday, 14 October 2006 the film premiered on national television, when it was broadcast by MTV Netherlands.[3][4]

The film continues to receive screenings at film festivals around the World, such as at the Tate Modern in London, U.K. at the Street Art Exposition in 2008.[5]

Synopsis

In the 2006 documentary "Kroonjuwelen" is a production of Stunned Film. A collective of designers, multimedia developers and filmmakers headed by Ivo Boerdam.[6] The idea for the film was brought into existence at the Mokum Master graffiti reunion in 2004 in Amsterdam. An event where the graffiti writers of Amsterdam gather to redefine the art form.[7] The film sheds light on the Dutch graffiti scene, specifically the scene in and around Amsterdam, with rare video footage dating from 1978 to 2005. Stunned Film follows various known graffiti writers and features interviews with well known artists.[8] The film covers the birth of Graffiti in the Dutch Capital from out of the punk and squatting scene of the city in the late seventies, and into the emergence of hip-hop culture in the Netherlands in the early eighties when graffiti in the Netherlands took to the trains, following the evolution of the art form up to modern artists.[9]

Cast

Release

The film was later released on DVD 14 May 2007. The DVD release comes in a 48-page linen hardcover book, which features several photographs from the early years of graffiti in Amsterdam.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Alles over de film Kroonjuwelen". Biosagenda.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  2. ↑ "De Kroonjuwelen van USA "Het avontuur blijft de belangrijkste herinnering"". State Magazine. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  3. ↑ "Kroonjuwelen Premiere". TheBoombap.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  4. ↑ "Kroonjuwelen - Hard Times, Good Times, Better Times". TVgids.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Free screenings this weekend at the Tate Modern". UK Street Art. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  6. ↑ "GRAFFITI-FILM 'KROONJUWELEN A.K.AMSTERDAM GRAFFITI'". Hiphopinjesmoel.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  7. ↑ "Kroonjuwelen". ZUBB.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  8. ↑ "Kroonjuwelen Documentary Graffiti Amsterdam How It All Started English Subtitles)". Trending020.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  9. ↑ "Kroonjuwelen – Hard times, Good times, Better times". Documentaire.net. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  10. ↑ "TopNotch presenteert Kroonjuwelen". TopNotch.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-03.

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