REMANENCE

Netherlands | 2024 | 20 min | bw

Remembering and surviving the passing of time. Evoking the past and perpetuating it in the present. The feminist fight blends in one thread with the fight against fascism and those of the present, according to an intersectional genealogy. Remanence is about all this, establishing a dialogue between two recently-discovered archival sources. In 1981, two researchers recorded the accounts of some women active in the Dutch pacifist and feminist movement who, at the time of the interviews, were over eighty years old. Searching through layers of uncertain memory, one of them complains about never being able to locate the reel filmed during their last action, conducted in Rotterdam in 1939 before the city was bombed. Well – the rare footage was found at last. These two archival elements – the more recent one and the older – are like a double heart of a film whose meaning lies less in the reconstruction of historical events than in making tangible the traces present in the partisans’ memories as well as in those that the film certainly produces in the viewers. (l.f.)

Film also available on the MYmovies ONE platform for 72h.