Cinema Concerts with Operator

Cinema Concerts are making a comeback after last year’s hit events. This time, they’ve brought in live electronic acts Betonkust and Dim Garden to create fresh live scores for short films from the Go Short International Film Festival archive. 

Roffa Mon Amour has enjoyed working with Operator, Rotterdam’s online radio station, for many years now. Operator is an online radio station and cultural platform dedicated to enriching the music and cultural landscape of Rotterdam and beyond, with a special focus on alternative sounds and underrepresented stories. Find more information about them here.

The live soundtracks fill the garden, creating a vibrant atmosphere. The powerful and mesmerizing music leaves the audience impressed. Each performance is a blend of artistry and energy, making for a memorable evening.

Betonkust

Betonkust grew up in a small, nature-surrounded town in the Netherlands. House music filled his typical 1990s upbringing. Now in Rotterdam, he’s part of a lively electronic music scene. Using simple gear like Korg Electribes and a cheap guitar, he records in FL Studio, crafting music that explores transience, surrender, and human melancholy.

About the film: Marlowe Drive (2018) by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’Helgouac’h

Marlowe Drive is an experimental film that plunges into the intersection of video games and documentary. Following director Adam Kesher through a fictional Los Angeles crafted by Rockstar Games, inspired by David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. As Kesher navigates this virtual Hollywood on a multiplayer platform, he seeks connections bridging reality and imagination. The film captures encounters with “real” characters in this digital realm, blending staged scenes with raw moments. Kesher’s journey delves into a chaotic yet captivating world that mirrors aspects of our own reality, challenging traditional documentary norms by immersing filmmaking in a virtual environment.

Dim Garden

Dim Garden brings new and disruptive energy into the hinterlands of electronic music. Her work spawns a distinctive mix of raw electronics, minimal wave, noisy industrial and gothic ballads. Captivated by the North Sea, its dune landscape and surrounding dark forests, Dim Garden’s musical endeavors expand into swampy synthesis, bedroom ballads and field recordings.

About the film: Flores (2017) by Jorge Jácom

Drenched in lysergic lavender, Flores is a sci-fi pseudo-documentary that unfolds as a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse. Set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly proliferating purple hydrangeas, the film merges environmental decay with a tender queer love story. Film director Jorge Jácome crafts a poetic exploration of memory and longing, where surreal landscapes mirror the emotional landscapes of the protagonist navigating lost love amidst a transformed world.

Dim Garden brings new and disruptive energy into the hinterlands of electronic music. Her work spawns a distinctive mix of raw electronics, minimal wave, noisy industrial and gothic ballads. Captivated by the North Sea, its dune landscape and surrounding dark forests, Dim Garden’s musical endeavors expand into swampy synthesis, bedroom ballads and field recordings.

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