Our first outdoor screening this Summer will land on the new terrace of cafe De Ruimte: De Ruimte Buiten (De Ruimte Outdoor)! On the 29th of July you can enjoy Soul Power - a simmering musical documentary - accompanied by snacks and drinks. Before and after the film you can take it to the dance floor with music by several DJs, in the mood of the film.

A collaboration between Filmhuis Cavia, De Ruimte en Outdoor Cinema.

SOUL POWER
Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, 2008, VS, 92'

Kinshasa, Zaïre, summer 1974. During three unequalled nights, several African-American artists, James Brown, Bill Withers, the Crusaders and more, played for an ecstatic Congolese crowd of 80.000. They shared the stage with their African counterparts; with Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango and OK Jazz, performing side by side with the Americans. This was Zaïre ’74; the first large music festival in Africa, to coincide with the famous Rumble in the Jungle, held also in Kinshasa, where Muhammad Ali faced George Foreman for the heavyweight title.

The film Soul Power is footage of this unrivalled event unreleased until 2008. We will see jam-sessions in the chartered Air Zaïre 747, Muhammad Ali musing over some Black Power philosophy, Manu Dibango using his soprano saxophone as a snake charmer on the streets of Kinshasa, and finally the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, in a purple suit studded with diamonds, bellowing out I’m Black and I’m Proud into the tropical heat of the Congolese night…

Before the film we will host our own Rumble at the Ruimte, so soul brothers and sisters, you better get up, get on up and stay on the scene (like a ...) !!!!

Trailer // One of the performances

Rumble at De Ruimte: 20.00 uur
Screening Soul Power: 22.00 uur

De Ruimte Buiten
Distelweg 83 (Noord)
http://www.cafederuimte.nl