Meet the Archive #6 | The Filmliga and the Origins of the Eye Collection

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of Eye Filmmuseum is a good reason to reflect on a collection that formed the basis of the Filmmuseum, namely the collection of the Filmliga.
The Filmliga was an organization that was founded in 1927 to show films from the international avant-garde to a Dutch audience. Films by Walter Ruttmann, Oskar Fischinger, René Clair, Luis Buñuel and many others were screened throughout the Netherlands. The aim was to raise awareness for the artistic qualities of the film.
Because the Filmliga collection was one of the 'founding collections' of the Filmmuseum after the war, many original, often unique, copies have been preserved in Eye's collection. One of the gems in this collection is The Man with the Camera (Soviet Union, 1929) by Dziga Vertov, which has been preserved and restored by Eye. This episode of Meet the Archive focuses on the collection of the Filmliga, and in particular The Man with the Camera, which will be available in full on the Eye Film Player later this year.
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Intro slide: still from What's On (1997, Martha Colburn)
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Het vieren van de 75e verjaardag van Eye Filmmuseum is een goede reden om stil te staan bij een collectie die aan de basis staat van het Filmmuseum, namelijk de collectie van de Filmliga. In deze aflevering van Meet the Archive staat de collectie van de Filmliga centraal, en in het bijzonder De man met de camera, die later dit jaar integraal beschikbaar zal komen op de Eye Film Player.

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