This screening, an initiative in collaboration with Hello Zuidas and Black Achievement Month, will be introduced by artist Kenneth Aidoo.
Southside with You
Chicago, 1989: young law student Barack Obama works for a law firm over the summer and it is there that he has met Michelle Robinson. He is very charmed by her and invites her for a day out. She is in the mood for that but immediately says that as far as she is concerned, their relationship is purely platonic. They visit an art gallery, they walk through a park, she joins him at the community centre where he has to give a speech, then they go for something to eat and end the day at the cinema, where they see Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. During that first date, they turn out to have a lot in common. As a result, it will not be their last date.
In 2009, Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States, with wife Michelle Obama by his side as the First Lady. How the two found each other is shown by director Richard Tanne in this romantic biopic written by himself. Starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter.
Kenneth Aidoo is a fine artist and a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2019) and he has also studied film at the Nederlandse Filmacademie in Amsterdam (2015). Aidoo works across different disciplines engaging in the conversation of the position of people of African descent. By making video-installations on the African diaspora and thus engaging in the heritage of a shared history. In the portraits of his paintings the forgotten narratives of the African is being made present where the erasure of history is cannot be neglected but displayed to see the presence of Africans throughout history.
Aidoo has exhibited nationally and an international show in Antwerp, Belgium. A solo at Amsterdam Art Island with Marian van Zijl-Langhout (2023). Selected group exhibitions include the. GROUPSHOW (2023) CBK Zuidoost (2023) and the ABN AMRO (2022). He has been nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2021 and being one of the three winners in 2022. His work is held in private collections and public collection.
