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    [EFF18P2] Prelude 2: Vers La Mer

    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF18P2] Prelude 2: Vers La Mer. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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    2 March 2018, 18:00, Birkbeck Cinema

    Film: To the Sea [Vers la mer], Annik Leroy, Belgium, 1999, 16mm, 87 minutes, French with English subtitles

    Starting in Germany, before crossing into Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, Vers la mer (To the Sea) is a documentary-voyage filmed in black-and-white by Annik Leroy, as she traces the River Danube from its source to the estuary of the Black Sea. As the landscape changes together with national frontiers and political borders, the film offers a cinematic encounter with twentieth-century history and the everyday realities of the region and its people. In the way in which Vers la mer projects a historical understanding onto the long takes and calmly paced sensory drift of the footage, this meditative film offers a thinking piece on place and living through history, a sense of time and memory, and the legacy of history on the experience of being in the world.

    This film was shown on a 16mm print courtesy of Cobra Films. Annik Leroy introduced the film, followed by discussion and response from Dr. Uilleam Blacker and Dr. Eszter Tarsoly, both from UCL School of Slavic and Eastern European Studies, chaired by Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine.

    In collaboration with Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture

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    [EFF18P2] Prelude 2: Vers La Mer
    Creators:

    Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    CollaboratorMcCabe, Janetj.mccabe@bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-9876
    CollaboratorYapp, Emmaeyapp01@student.bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-6066
    Subjects:

    Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Data collection method:

    The Essay Film Festival, active since 2015, presents a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes.
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    2 March 20182 March 2018
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    All film stills were provided by participating artists.
    Depositing User: Emma Yapp
    Date Deposited: 19 Aug 2026 10:23
    Last Modified: 19 Aug 2026 10:23
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF18P2] Prelude 2: Vers La Mer. Birkbeck College, University of London.

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