Thelma & Louise

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In an impressionistic black and white image made up in virtual reality, a number of women, of all ages and all dressed in large late-Victorian dresses, are pictured floating around a space which has old images of city housing as its background (campaign image Walzer (Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs, NL 2022))

campaign image Walzer (Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs, NL 2022)

still from Walzer (Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs, NL 2022)

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still from Donna: vrouwen in verzet (Yvonne Scholten, NL 1980)

still Donna: vrouwen in verzet (Yvonne Scholten, NL 1980)

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On this opening night of the Eye International Conference, we will present a brand new restoration of a title from the Cinemien collection, Donna: Women in Revolt (1980). Yvonne Scholten impressively portrays 80 years of women's resistance in Italy. Free admission: collect a ticket from the box office on the day.

Eye has advocated for more attention to the role of women in cinema for decades and has undertaken several initiatives on women and (re)writing a more inclusive film history. In 2022, Eye started an oral history pilot study regarding the collection of the feminist film collective Cinemien, which was founded in 1974. Yvonne Scholten is one of the women interviewed in the oral history project. In Donna: Vrouwen in verzet, Yvonne Scholten impressively portrays 80 years of women's resistance in Italy. Starting from the brutal fascist attack on the Roman free radio station Radio Donna, during a Housewives' Collective broadcast in January 1979, follows a search for the backgrounds of the Italian women's movement through extraordinary archival footage and interviews. Scholten speaks to women who opposed any form of oppression (fascist movements, church, political parties, etc.). Forgotten roles The film covers many topics in an accessible manner: the divide between feminists at the beginning of the century and women in the peasant and labour movements of the time, the "women's issue" in the major left-wing parties after the war and second-wave feminism. This film provides a broader understanding of (often forgotten) women's roles in history. A Season of Classic Film Curator Simona Monizza, researcher Gerdien Smit and director Yvonne Scholten introduce the premiere of the digital restoration. The restoration of Donna: Vrouwen in verzet is a collaboration between the Netherlands Institute for Sound &amp; Vision and Eye Filmmuseum. The restoration has been made possible thanks to <a href="https://ace-film.eu/projects/season-of-classics/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Season of Classic Films</a>, an initiative of Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) supported by the EU Creative Europe MEDIA programme. A Season of Classic Films brings European films closer to audiences through a programme of free film screenings, provided by national and regional film archives, throughout Europe. Donna: Vrouwen in verzet is the first screening in the 2023 series of several screenings of restored films organised by ACE around Europe. Free entrance: get a ticket at the box office on the day itself.

Donna: Vrouwen in verzet

The VR experience Walzer by Frieda Gustavs and Leo Erken takes you on a journey through a landscape consisting of thousands of photographs of women from the first wave of feminism (1850 - 1940). The duo have developed a new way of making archival material accessible to all using virtual reality.

The photographs, which are sometimes over 100 years old, are given new life and meaning in Walzer. The unknown portraits were collated from private collections, found on Marktplaats or at flea markets. Thousands of personal female histories were hidden in those boxes and albums. These stories can finally be told by morphing these photographs into one another in 3D. Tales, songs and poems are whispered, sung, screamed and told by voices in eight different languages. Walzer thereby revives the first wave of feminism (1850 - 1940).

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Two women, one turquoise Thunderbird, one gas pedal... with this feminist milestone in American cinema history, Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri and director Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie. Screening in a new 4K restoration, supervised by Scott.

Immediately upon release Thelma &amp; Louise became an instant classic everyone was talking about. Two best friends are transformed during a disastrous weekend trip into two fugitive female desperadoes. They keep pushing the pedal to the metal, trying to shake off the police and find freedom – on their own terms.

From Wuthering Heights to Dokter Pulder zaait papavers, from North by Northwest to Vivre sa vie: every week in Eye you can enjoy classics you've seen, never seen or only recognise by reputation.

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Frieda Gustavs and Leo Erken discuss portraits of women, such as those in their VR experience Walzer which is made up of thousands of photographs. On women in struggle and how the makers look at the past.

In the VR experience Walzer by Frieda Gustavs and Leo Erken, we take a journey through a landscape made up of thousands of photographs of women from the feminist First Wave (1850-1940). Using virtual reality technology, the makers have found a new, challenging way of making archival material accessible to all. Relevance The makers will discuss how they used the visual materials they found and how freely they interpreted and arranged the story of the women in the photographs. This demonstrates the continuing relevance of the question of the interrelatedness of aesthetics and political consciousness. The waltz from the VR experience Walzer will be performed live to accompany the archival footage of suffragettes who struggled for votes for women in London in the 1910s. Dolle Minas A host of clips from films in the Eye collection featuring met women in struggle: alongside the suffragettes from the early twentieth century, these include the ‘Dolle Minas’ who fought for the right to abortion in Amsterdam in the 1970s under the slogan: “boss in our own bellies”.

Walzer Opening Night – Thousands of Women's Portraits

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Thelma & Louise

Ridley Scott / US, FR, 1991 / 129 min.

Two women, one turquoise Thunderbird, one gas pedal... with this feminist milestone in American cinema history, Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri and director Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie. Screening in a new 4K restoration, supervised by Scott.

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