Video: Wijnand Bredewold
Music: Jesús Lastra Time is time rocessed auidio, 8 min
The buildings from my personal past have disappeared …
They have given way to new buildings …
They are crossfaded …
In the environment I grew up in, buildings have disappeared over time, they have lost their functions and have been replaced by new buildings with sometimes new functions. For me personally, even the entire neighborhood in which I grew up, Holtenbroek 1 in Zwolle, has completely disappeared. From the important places of my childhood, such as the house where I was born, the schools I attended, the swimming pool, etc., I have found old photos. I photographed the places again. In this video, the original buildings are slowly replaced (crossfaded) by these new buildings. The applied music is a dronescape, which gives the time change an extra dimension.
Expo: The City Imagines 2021 Title: Crossfading Places
Photographer: Wijnand Bredewold, Zwolle
Expert jury:
A cinematic image of photo images, old and new, that blend together in a surprising way. There is accurate worked with old historical images as a basis for current ones photo images from the Holtenbroek district. The series is an excellent example of digitized visual heritage used in creative method is used to investigate a current theme and namely ‘The neighborhood in transition’. With that, the series has a dramatic undertone: ‘old’ buildings and housing blocks, giving way to modern ones; sometimes recognizable and aesthetically enriching, sometimes incomprehensible by the architectural silliness. A series that makes the change of the Holtenbroek residential area excellently and that is permeated with a slight but lasting melancholy. A series that will also appeal to the young viewer. Please note: the series is not Kleenex-proof.
Link to press release.
They have given way to new buildings …
They are crossfaded …
In the environment I grew up in, buildings have disappeared over time, they have lost their functions and have been replaced by new buildings with sometimes new functions. For me personally, even the entire neighborhood in which I grew up, Holtenbroek 1 in Zwolle, has completely disappeared. From the important places of my childhood, such as the house where I was born, the schools I attended, the swimming pool, etc., I have found old photos. I photographed the places again. In this video, the original buildings are slowly replaced (crossfaded) by these new buildings. The applied music is a dronescape, which gives the time change an extra dimension.
Expo: The City Imagines 2021 Title: Crossfading Places
Photographer: Wijnand Bredewold, Zwolle
Expert jury:
A cinematic image of photo images, old and new, that blend together in a surprising way. There is accurate worked with old historical images as a basis for current ones photo images from the Holtenbroek district. The series is an excellent example of digitized visual heritage used in creative method is used to investigate a current theme and namely ‘The neighborhood in transition’. With that, the series has a dramatic undertone: ‘old’ buildings and housing blocks, giving way to modern ones; sometimes recognizable and aesthetically enriching, sometimes incomprehensible by the architectural silliness. A series that makes the change of the Holtenbroek residential area excellently and that is permeated with a slight but lasting melancholy. A series that will also appeal to the young viewer. Please note: the series is not Kleenex-proof.
Link to press release.