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Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

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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)

campaign image Eye International Conference 2023 (horizontal)

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

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)

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

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

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

still from Aletta Jacobs: het hoogste streven (Nouchka van Brakel, NL 1995)

still Aletta Jacobs: het hoogste streven (Nouchka van Brakel, NL 1995)

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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. Free entrance: get a ticket at the box office.

Donna: Vrouwen in verzet

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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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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Frieda Gustavs, Leo Erken and Nouchka van Brakel discuss portraits of women, such as those in the VR experience ‘Walzer’ made up of thousands of photographs, and Van Brakel’s film about pioneer of female emancipation Aletta Jacobs. 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. Nouchka van Brakel also made use of photographic archives for her feature film on female doctor and pioneering campaigner for contraception and equal rights for women, Aletta Jacobs (<a href="https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/aletta-jacobs-het-hoogste-streven/963781" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aletta Jacobs: Het hoogste streven</a>, 1995). 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”. A desire also expressed by a sex worker in Nouchka van Brakel’s film about Aletta Jacobs; the Netherlands’ first female doctor gives her a diaphragm to try out.

Walzer Opening Night – Thousands of Women's Portraits

Nouchka van Brakel’s fictional portrait of Aletta Jacobs, the first female doctor in the Netherlands and an icon of the first wave of feminism. Van Brakel: “I always think histories consisting of straight facts are always really boring. A lively, contemporary ‘her-story’ seemed  way more fascinating to me".

During the first week of June, Eye will screen the VR experience Walzer by Frieda Gustavs and Leo Erken: a journey through a landscape consisting of thousands of photographs from the first wave of feminism (1850 - 1940).

Aletta Jacobs : het hoogste streven

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Pick up your free ticket at the box office (available on the day of)

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With Frieda Gustavs, Leo Erken and Nouchka van Brakel

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.

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Special screenings

Tuesday 30 May | 19:30

Walzer Opening Night – Thousands of Women's Portraits (with performance)

Saturday 3 Jun | 19:00

Donna: Vrouwen in verzet (with introduction)

Aletta Jacobs : het hoogste streven

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