In the 1930’s a Dutch women’s peace movement generated collective action and personal development across social divides. Combining rare testimonies with unique archive footage, Remanence evokes a lost feminist history and offers an intergenerational perspective on war, gender, and memory.
Sabine Groenewegen
Sabine Groenewegen (1985, The Hague) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher. Her debut film, Odyssey (2018)—a science fiction found footage film exploring whiteness and national imaginaries shaped by racial capitalism—premiered at Doclisboa and won the Doc Alliance Award. Remanence (2024), which is about a forgotten 1930’s women’s antifascist movement, premiered at Cinema du Réel. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including ICA, Bozar, and EYE Filmmuseum. The Clearing (2026) premieres at the International Competition of FIDMarseille.
Cinema as Memorial
Reminiscence? What is reminiscence? What is the difference between them and memories? What can constitute a reminiscence and memory? How does reminiscence work? Whose reminiscence? What reminiscence? What memory? Whose memory? When should we reminisce and when should we remember? How do we remember and how do we reminisce?
The films in this year’s Spektrum explore these questions through a variety of approaches, both experimental and traditional in documentary film production.
Instead of contestation, this year’s Spektrum tries to present a range of diverse scores on memory and how we remember. From the very personal to/or at the same time the collective, as well as from the hegemonic to the alternative. Memories and ways of remembering coexist; they can be equally important for us to know or learn. It’s not about finding answers in an instant, but rather as a reminder that we can retain as a critical aid to navigate life now and then.
–Wimo Ambala Bayang
Programmer
“I think my only wish could be... That this picture, you gathered here, could be seen all over the world.” Now closer to a century since those words were uttered at a women’s peace march in the Netherlands, Sabine Groenewegen’s captivating collage of only recently unearthed archival sources finally grants the wishes of this unknown…
