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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))

Walzer

Leo Erken, Frieda Gustavs / NL, 2022 / 10 min.

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.

poster Walzer (Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs, NL 2022)

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).

In Eye 31 May through 7 June.

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Details

Persons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adult

Director

Leo Erken, Frieda Gustavs

Production year

2022

Country

NL

Length

10 min.

Language

Dutch, Russian, Polish, English, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese

Part of

Xtended

Virtual Reality productions are an increasingly important element of the contemporary film experience. Eye has created a new programme, Xtended, to focus on VR. In Xtended, you’re not confronted with the flat surface of a film screen. You move around virtually in 3D through a designed space that surrounds and immerses you on all sides.

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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))
still from Walzer (Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs, NL 2022)
still from Walzer (Leo Erken & Frieda Gustavs, NL 2022)
On a lit-up background, a gloved hand moves a small magnifying glass across an analogue film strip which features the number eight on a pink background (campaign image Eye International Conference 2023)

Eye International Conference

Walzer aligns perfectly with the ‘Activating the Archive’ theme of this year's Eye International Conference (4 - 7 June 2023). At the conference, which will be organised in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, experts will discuss the archiving of collections and the activist use of archives.

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