In Tijd voor Noord (Time for North), we bike along with Lucas, a young activist, through Amsterdam North. Being immersed in a rapidly changing urban landscape, this bike ride takes us to changing parts of Amsterdam North. The film draws upon collaborative and historic photographs to establish a link between an industrial past and a present targeted by Gentrification. Throughout the film Lucas meets up with residents who are dealing with the changes bound to Gentrification, as the audience gains insight into the impact these changes manifest on their lives.
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Tobias van Oosten is a recently graduated Cultural Anthropology student obtaining MA in Visual Ethnography at the university of Leiden, and a BA in Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Now venturing into the usage of visual methods as film and photography as a complement to ethnographic methods. Past research projects have involved Ethnographic research of a city bound to tourist development in Bahia, Brazil. Here the author explored forms of segregation, and neighbourhood identities. His latest work, the Ethnographic research and documentary Time for North, explores the way Gentrification influences lives of older neighbourhood inhabitants of Amsterdam North.
