Miracles ~ One Minute ~ One hand playing with sunlight beams reflecting and passing scattered through melting ice – trying creating miracles – and the other hand on the other side holding the smartphone recording February 2018 in Holland. One minute film produced March 9, 2020 for The One Minutes Collection.
Film : Miracles (20200309) Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | miracles.media
Mirror
Birds (gulls) in the sky reflecting on a flimsy sheet of meltwater over frozen pond recorded January 2016 in Holland. Film produced March 8, 2020 for The One Minutes Collection. Film : Mirror (20200308) Michel van der Burg | miracles.media
Farewell Terschelling
Leaving on a ferryboat the dutch island of Terschelling , in the Wadden Sea, last week of december 2019. Music : Sun Dog by Bedroom | Artlist
Film : 20200213 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com | miracles.media
Kriterion ~ Amsterdam
A cinema steeped in history … ‘Kriterion’ began life as an Amsterdam student association involved in hiding and saving many Jews (an estimated 400 jewish children (Ref. 2) from Nazi persecution – next in 1945 the students opened cinema Kriterion (Ref. 3) in the former building (until 1942) of the ‘Handwerkers Vriendenkring’ association of mainly Jewish diamond workers – and 75 year later in Kriterion – still runned by the Amsterdam students – last night – arthouse cinema : screening of Beyond Index and post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Gerald Van Der Kaap.
Ref. 1 – https://www.kriterion.nl
Ref. 2 – https://www.cineville.nl/films/kriterion-herdenkt
Ref. 3 – Amsterdam Students Run Movie House. In : Higher Education – SemiMonthly publication of the higher education division – United States Office of Education, Fedural Security Agency. Vol. III, No. 7 , Washigton, D.C. December 1, 1946; Page 10 .
Bridge 65 to the Jordaan ~ Amsterdam Streets
Street view on the ‘Bears sluice’ (Berensluis – bridge 65) over the Prinsengracht canal – port to the Jordaan district – in the center of Amsterdam , yesterday at twilight during rush hour, 5 PM January 7, 2020. Film : 20200108 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Twilight Arrival Terschelling Island
Friesland ferry (Doeksen company) arriving in the harbor of West-Terschelling on the dutch Wadden Sea island Terschelling at low tide last Christmas Day at 4:40 PM. Film : 20200101 Michel van der Burg | 1-memo.com
Flammable Films Bunker
Former german bunker (Atlantic Wall) in the dunes along the North Sea near Scheveningen , The Hague, with special safes to store the flammable nitrate films of dutch history from the national dutch archive – historic films for safety reasons not allowed within built-up areas.
Here the Westerbork film footage also was examined in the 1990s for clues about the deportation trains and the name of the girl with the ‘working’ name Esther (by researcher Aad Wagenaar) – later to be identified as Settela.
Here a 1980 Polygoon newsreel on the restauration of this RVD archive bunker with new safes.
Credit
Source : Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator).
Film edit : Flammable Films Bunker | 20191216 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com – CC BY-SA 4.0
