Anna Abrahams
2021Cadavre exquis - Le cadvre exquis verra le film nouveau
Anna Abrahams
Cadavre Exquis introduces five experimental filmmakers, thereby showing the different aspects of experimental cinema in the Netherlands. With Lonnie van Brummelen, Gerard Holthuis, Jeroen Eisinga, Joost Rekveld and Henri Plaat. Premièred at IFFR. Screened in 10 theaters as introduction to the film series DLIGHT, with experimental Dutch films from 1960 to 2004. Followed by screenings in theaters in Amsterdam, Brussel and Tallinn. SOMNIO, Alkmaar 2011, E*Cinema: LichtVal, EYE. As dvd part of the book ‘Film3’ (Anna Abrahams, 2004). Broadcast by FilmbankTV december 2009
Cadavre exquis - Le cadvre exquis verra le film nouveau
Sotsgorod — Steden voor de heilstaat
Anna Abrahams
A 1996 Dutch documentary film about the Western European architects who were invited by the Soviet Union to construct “Socialist cities” in Siberia during the late 1920s and early 30s. The film draws on interviews of some of the last survivors of this time, including Jan Rutgers (of the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (of the Ernst May group), and Philipp Tolziner (of the “Bauhaus Brigade”), and on letters, articles, and lectures written by those who have already died, including Hans Schmidt, Mart Stam, Johannes van Loghem, and Ernst May. It also follows the daily lives of contemporary residents of Magnitogorsk, Orsk, Novokuznetsk, and Kemerovo.
Sotsgorod: Cities for Utopia
