Ruigoord: een kosmisch lek (2024) on Netflix
NR20241h 20mDocumentary
Squatters turned a village outside Amsterdam into a cultural haven. Fifty years on, its residents plan an anniversary party while the port next door prepares to store green hydrogen nearby.
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For fifty years Ruigoord, a small village near Amsterdam, has been the country's oldest free cultural space, a haven where artists, dreamers and freethinkers gather between the port and the industry around them. Hippies occupied it in the 1970s, and twice since then its residents have held off Amsterdam's expansion plans. In 2023 they prepare to mark fifty years, but the port of Amsterdam intends to use the oil tanks around the village to store green hydrogen for the city's energy transition. Hydrogen is highly explosive, and the storage would place Ruigoord in a danger zone. Residents credit the village's magic to a cosmic leak, and they wonder whether it can help them now.
