Eye beyond Eye
Meet the Archive 2024: Eye beyond Eye
Meet the Archive highlights how the Eye collection is utilised and what for. This session will consist of examples of cooperations with external partners that Eye’s collection. Featuring a book launch, works by two filmmakers and the new streaming platform Film Secession.
Programme
Screening of Shorts
The session will start with the screening of two recently discovered and restored films: Travelogue: leven in Algerije (Travelogue: Life in Algeria) (FR 1913, 2’) and Joseph Rosenstein's vrouwelijke worstelaars (Joseph Rosenstein's Female Wrestlers) (DE (?) circa 1907, 2').
Book presentation
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital by Grazia Ingravalle published by Amsterdam University Press in 2023 studies film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography and archival curatorship. Ingravalle discusses three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam), the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY) and the National Fairground and Circus Archive (Sheffield, GB) serve as examples of a dialogue between early and silent cinema, and the digital age. Dr Grazia Ingravalle, Assistant Professor in Film at the Queen Mary University of London will present her work in person.
Ginta Tinte Vasermane: Artist in Residence
Eye’s current artist in residence, Ginta Tinte Vasermane is inspired by early slapstick and vaudeville films to create idiosyncratic, contemporary interpretations of absurd social situations in her films. This ‘work in progress’ presentation will share the results of her ongoing archival research into Eye’s film collection. Born in Riga (Latvia), Ginta Tinte Vasermane works in the fields of moving images, film, video installations, sculpture, costume design and curating. Based in Amsterdam since her studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Netherlands Film Academy, she has exhibited at the European Media Art Festival (DE), Art Rotterdam (NL) and the Stockholm Independent Art Fair (SE). Her residence at Eye will end in December 2024 with installations of her new work and a special film screening.
Film Secession
Film Secession is a paid streaming platform with a meticulously curated selection of artistic movements, range of filmmakers, periods and art forms. Subscribers will discover nonlinear paths through the histories of the arts, be able to watch rare films provided by the world's prominent studios, production companies and archives as well as have special access to events held worldwide. Film Secession promotes deeper understanding of our cinematic heritage, breathing new life into shared creative legacy.
Eye is participating in Film Secession providing works by Peter Delpeut and from the Desmet Collection. The initial Eye batch from January 2024 will be augmented over the summer by an extensive batch of exclusive material. Presentation by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (curator Eye).
Founder Richard I. Suchenski has a joint PhD in the History of Art and Film Studies from Yale University, and is the author of Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film (Oxford University Press, 2016) and the editor of Hou Hsiao-hsien (Austrian Film Museum/Columbia University Press, 2014).Mirella Muroni – Attestatie de Vita
Preceded by a brief introduction by Dorette Schootemeijer (curator Eye) about the reuse of archival material from Eye’s collection by filmmakers and artists – in particular material featuring former Dutch colonies.
In the project 'Attestatie de Vita' (literally proof of life) Mirella Muroni combines archival material with fictional tales about women of colour. The 10-part series aims to retroactively and artificially restore the absence of non-white women in Dutch archived heritage. This ‘work in progress’ presentation will share her research findings into the various options for visual representation. Muroni is a scriptwriter, filmmaker and advisor to the Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Oerol festival and is of Dutch-Caribbean-Italian descent. She is currently filming her feature-length Afro-futurist film Forget All You Know (About Aliens).
Includes a screening of Stop Bugging Me (excerpt) and Light-Eye People (short film, 3’).
This programme is in English.
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Details
Production year
2024
Length
80 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
Meet the Archive 2024
Meet the Archive provides a kaleidoscopic look at the work of Eye’s restorers and curators. Eye’s collection comprises some 55,000 films as well as dozens of directors’, film professionals’ and institutions’ archives. The past year’s most remarkable, surprising (research) projects will be highlighted on 25 May 2024.
Obsessed with Light
After Meet the Archive, at 19:15, catch Obsessed with Light, a documentary about dance and light pioneer Loïe Fuller (1862 - 1928), a fabulously original performer and inventor whose rise coincided with cinema’s infancy. The film combines interviews with artists with copious archival material from sources including Eye.
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