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'what a beautiful film. Very atmospheric, melancholic and really thought-provoking about people and the passage of time. Truly a film that resonates.'
Xandra Schutte
Tourist sites, first photographed in the nineteenth century and still today by throngs of tourists with 'smart phones' attached to 'selfie sticks', are captured in order to instantly share the images worldwide.
Together with Lex van Nes I found all the locations and photographed them again.
Königssee and Saint Bartholomew's Church Berchtesgaden, Germany.
Photo Lex vanNes, 3 juni 2017 09:41 PM
from the photographic studio of M. Walch in Bergtesgaden, ca 1870
from the photographic studio of M. Walch in Bergtesgaden, ca 1870
The collection PHOTOGRAFPHS in the original box that I inherited from my
great-grandmother Keetje Hanlo-Tellegen (1853-1934)
Life had changed from a local to a global one. The first globalization was a fact. The railway network that was rapidly being built around the world encouraged people to travel. A travel map of Central Europe from 1880, shows how the black-drawn railway lines cover the continent like a fine-mesh web.Much of this old railway network is now no longer in use. Traveling in this way is no longer possible, I took my own means of transport, a campervan. Something that would be unthinkable in the nineteenth century.
In the camper
My reading list
“When the word spread that two inventors had just succeeded in fixing every image presented in front of them onto silver plates, there was a universal stupefaction that we cannot imagine, so accustomed are we, after so many years now, to photography, and so inured to its popularization.”´ This is how Felix Nadar begins his memoir 'Quand j'étais Photographe' in 1900. Nadar looks back in time and predicts the future of photography. And photography wasn't the only invention that would have a major impact on everyday life.The new railways made it possible to bridge long distances and brought a new experience. The passing landscape, in the eyes of nineteenth-century train passengers, was vague and unbearable, at a speed that we would now experience as a snail's pace.
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"Topographic Carte de Visite" they are called, small handmade photos of popular attractions, were sold by the new professional photographers to the first tourists as souvenirs.
A box filled with these old photos from the 19th century, collected by my great-grandmother, came to me after enduring two World Wars and became the starting point for this film.
A 'road movie' along old railways and stagecoach routes, sailing on rivers and lakes, walking along natural phenomena and through cities in Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic), back to the places my great-grandmother visited and where the photographs were made. A journey imposed on me from the outside, which I would not have chosen directly if I had not inherited the photos. A collection of an ancestor, in which the genealogical line is extended in time next to a geological line in space. Or as British anthropologist Tim Ingold puts it: 'Retracing the lines of past lives is the way we proceed along our own.'
It is the small, still, monochrome images, called ‘PHOTOGRAFIEN’ by my great-grandmother that determine the route. A 'kaleidoscopic exploration' through prosperous countries in Europe, with now still open borders. Who knows how long and what the future will bring for Europe.
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Specifications
language: Dutch and German/English subtitled
running time: 97 minutes
première: 2024
director: BarBara Hanlo
scenario: BarBara Hanlo
camera: BarBara Hanlo
editor: BarBara Hanlo
sound: BarBara Hanlo
production: PEP Purple Earth Productions
co production: Lex van Nes
distributie: Stichting Starting From Scratch: Peter van Hoof petervanhoof33@gmail.com
