New(s) from the Collection
Meet the Archive 2023: New(s) from the Collection
Every year, the kaleidoscopic nature of Eye’s collection is underlined when our collection experts step into the spotlights during Meet the Archive (free admission). Eye’s experts provide exceptional stories from (early) cinema history, highlighting forgotten filmmakers.
On Saturday 3 June 2023, Eye’s curators and restorers will talk about their latest research projects. Topics will include the forgotten works of pioneering female filmmakers, exceptional finds and special bequests to the archive.
Free admission: collect a ticket from the box office on the day.
Programme
Sigma Collectie: Matthijs van Heijingen bequest (20')
The long-awaited paper archives of Sigma Films a.k.a. Matthijs van Heijningen, the Netherlands’ most famous film producer and his partner Guurtje Buddenberg, have been indexed in their entirety. Involved in over 80, mainly major, feature films this archive represents an extremely important addition to Eye’s collection. The extensive work undertaken will be presented in a film by archivist Piet Dirkx.
Not in this cinema: censorship (30')
From the advent of cinemas around 1910, local and national film certification boards played an important role in determining what could or couldn’t be screened. Eye’s collection contains 15 moving boxes full of cuts made by film distributor Centra Film: excerpts that were removed from films at the behest of the national film censors, but also scenes the distributor decided to remove themselves. Which strategies underpin this? Presentation: Ad de Kroon (film archivist) and Rommy Albers (curator).
16mm: colour and sound in the 1930s (15')
Colour, 16mm film started being used in the 1930s. The Amsterdam film company Klankfilm-Studio Van Wouw shot black & white, 16mm films with sound for companies, political parties and unions including Onder water door (1939) about the construction of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam. The ingenious Van Wouw managed to combine sound and colour into a short, 16 mm ode to labour using an optical printer. Presented by Rommy Albers.
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Details
Production year
2023
Length
87 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
Meet the Archive 2023
Eye’s curators and restorers present their latest discoveries during the Meet the Archive day. This edition: find out more about the history of feminist film collective Cinemien, featuring a screening of the restored Cinemien documentary Donna: vrouwen in verzet.
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