Air Raid – The Hague 1935
Exercise of an air raid in 1935, bombing the dutch town The Hague – seat of government – on a small scale. Testing the decisiveness, and speed with which municipal services in The Hague react in the event of an air attack. Shots:
Formation biplanes flies over. Explosion of ‘mustard gas bomb’ on the street causes white clouds of smoke, after which helpers in overalls and police officers – wearing gas masks, among other things – rush or drive to provide first aid to the ‘victims’ on the street and arrange transport to the hospital.
Shots of normal traffic ‘just’ passing outside the training area (in the background, laughter from the audience watching). Cameraman of Polygoon cinema news with gas mask on behind camera. Credits:
Air raid exercise in The Hague , Holland, published April 8, 1935 by dutch cinema news company Polygoon Hollands Nieuws, courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid | OpenImages. Film : 20200503 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com | miracles.media
The Road
Clouds #4 in the Green Heart of Holland. Tech notes : Quick motion x4 setting (S&Q 12 fps , 50p, HD) on Sony Alpha A7 mark III with SELP18105G lens using APS-C crop mode , 6200K white balance , F13. Music : The Road by Itai Armon | Artlist .
Film : 20200502 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com | miracles.media
NL – SIMON GRONOWSKI PUSH & PIANO
Simon Gronowski’s speech over de PUSH Opera … het genie van Howard Moody, de vele mensen rond de wieg van dit wonder … de emotie van koningin Mathilde van België, en speelt piano tijdens de herdenking van 2019 van Transport XX in Boortmeerbeek.
De nieuwste – nu virtuele – uitvoering van de community opera PUSH met meer dan 150 zangers uit de vier casts en koren uit het Groot Brittanië en België werd vorige week door iedereen zelf thuis opgenomen en is nu online te zien sinds de première op 19 april 2020 via deze link https://youtu.be/-sm1rI-j5iE precies 77 jaar nadat Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau en Jean Franklemon Transport XX stopten.
De PUSH-opera is gebaseerd op het verhaal van Simon Gronowski. En het nieuwe virtuele optreden ‘PUSH’ is ook uniek met het nu integreren van beelden van Simon’s leven.
Transport XX herdenking in Boortmeerbeek, België (2019)
Muziek: Simon Gronowski op piano
Film: Simon Gronowski Push & Piano (20200422) Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | miracles.media
EN – SIMON GRONOWSKI PUSH & PIANO Simon Gronowski speaks – in dutch and french – on the PUSH Opera … the genius of Howard Moody, the many people around the crib of this miracle … the emotion of Queen Mathilde of Belgium , and plays the piano during the 2019 commemoration of the attack of the 20th convoy – Transport XX – on stage in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium.
The latest – now virtual – performance of community opera PUSH with more than 150 singers from the four casts and choruses form the UK & Belgium was made last week by all at home, and is now screening online from the premiere the 19th April 2020 here https://youtu.be/-sm1rI-j5iE … exactly 77 years after the three Brussels resistance heroes Youra Livschitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon stopped the Nazi train Transport XX, transporting 1600 Jewish deportees to Auschwitz, and more than 200 prisoners escaped from the train before the German border – that attack is unique in the history of the Holocaust.
The PUSH opera is based on Simon Gronowski’s story. And the new virtual performance film ‘PUSH’ is unique also in now integrating images of Simon’s life – the 11 year old Jewish boy who was pushed from the train – Transport XX – by his mother on the way to Auschwitz , April 19th, 1943.
Commemoration attack Transport XX in Boortmeerbeek, Belgium (2019). Music : Simon Gronowski on piano.
Film : Simon Gronowski Push & Piano (20200422) Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | miracles.media
Fresh Air
Breath of fresh air in Holland during self-isolation time , filmed at home in the garden yesterday (April 6) and produced April 7, 2020 for The One Minutes Collection. File name : Michel van der Burg_Fresh Air_2020_Netherlands .
Film : Fresh Air (20200407) Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | miracles.media
David Claerbout’s Travel 1996-2013 @ Home Screening .
Short impression of at-home screening of David Claerbout’s hypnotic film Travel, 1996-2013. Featured as a first installment of Sean Kelly Gallery’s Film Friday’s , the video was live 24 hours only last Friday, April 3, 12 am – 11:59 pm EST. A still pic was shared in response to the gallery’s little competition for a signed copy of David Claerbout’s catalogue. Well , as a videomaker I can’t help here also sharing this 2 sec video clip used for that still I submitted 😉
Summary , Links and Tags. @michelvanderburg together home in Holland screening Friday morning April 3th, 2020 11AM @studiodavidclaerbout online premiere of David Claerbout’s ‘Travel 1996 – 2013’ thanks to @seankellyny Film Friday’s #davidclaerboutTravel #forest #dreaming More here https://www.skny.com/artists/david-claerbout .
Friday April 3th, 2020 Sean Kelly Gallery | Film Friday’s
Film : 20200406 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Eating Tulip Bulbs ~ Hunger Winter Holland 1944-1945 .
(silent film)
My mother did not tell me much and no details on her experiences in World War 2, except for the Hongerwinter (“Hunger winter”) – the Dutch famine of 1944–45 – that she had to eat tulip bulbs.
As children in the 1950s our mother always told us to finish and clean our plates (and pretty large portions, served by our parents) , before being allowed to leave the table. The one thing we were regularly reminded of was the famine my mother and others had experienced…and that she even had to eat tulip bulbs – then a 16-year old teenager living (with her parents) in the city of The Hague during the Dutch famine of 1944–45.
The famine was caused by a German blockade plus the harsh winter blocking alternative water routes, that cut off food and fuel shipments to the western Netherlands were food stocks rapidly ran out in the large cities of The Hague, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam . Tulip bulbs and sugar beets were commonly consumed. Trees in The Hague city woods (like Scheveningse Bosjes shown in the film) were cut , and in the end furniture and houses were dismantled to provide fuel for heating.
When the famine was worst and deaths were reaching a peak , the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood of The Hague – were my mothers family lived – was bombed by British bomber crews with the wrong coordinates flying in fog and clouds, causing widespread death and destruction. More on that ‘Bombing of the Bezuidenhout’ later this month.
Menno Huizinga (1907–1947) took photographs illegally during the occupation , mainly in his hometown The Hague in Holland. He was a member of the group of Dutch photographers ‘De Ondergedoken Camera’ (1943-1945) – The Underground Camera – doing resistance work during the Second World War.
‘Eating Tulip Bulbs ~ Hunger Winter Holland 1944-1945’ is a silent film by Michel van der Burg , using photographs captured during this ‘Hunger winter’ 1944-1945 by Menno Huizinga in Holland (mainly in The Hague) from the public domain collection of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies , curated by Dutch Network War Collections (NOB) for WO2 Open Data Depot via Wikimedia Commons.
Credits
Photographs by Menno Huizinga, Holland 1944-1945 | NIOD | WO2 Open Data Depot | Wikimedia Commons.
Film : Eating Tulip Bulbs | 20200325 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com – CC BY 4.0
