Kickstarter

**JUST ONE MORE DAY LEFT in the campaign!  THANK YOU all for your support and interest in the project.  Any additional funds raised will be used to support a two-week artist residency I've been granted at the Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier printshop in the Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam.**

July 22, 1941/2011 takes 5.5 seconds of film footage, the only existing moving images of Anne Frank, and translates it into 132 meticulously rendered drawings and a short experimental film that returns to the original site. 

In September 2009, the Anne Frank House Museum released the only known film footage of Anne Frank on YouTube.  The original film was shot on July 22, 1941 and represents an everyday moment, less than one year before the Frank family went into hiding.

Within this film clip Anne Frank is visible in 132 frames.  The goal of my project is to recreate every frame into intricately rendered drawings.  On completion the 132 drawings will be installed together so that every piece of visual information of the only existing film footage of Anne Frank is visible simultaneously, and the 6 seconds of footage stretches out to fill a room.

The second part of the project involves producing a short experimental film on site in Amsterdam. July 22, 2011 will be exactly 70 years to the day since the original footage was shot at Merwedeplein 37 in Amsterdam (visible below). The film will replicate the exact camera angles, cuts, and frames as the original film and will eventually accompany the installation of drawings as a haunting return to the original site.

The project as a whole is a study and meditation on memory, loss, and the weight of our collective cultural history. 

My goal is to shoot the film this July in Amsterdam and complete the drawings by September 2011 but I need your help!

Funds raised from Kickstarter will be used exclusively for drawing materials, travel to Amsterdam, rental fees for camera equipment, and developing and digitizing the film.  Take a look below to read about some print rewards you can receive as a small way of saying thanks!

SPECIAL REWARD DETAILS:

$30  Letterpress printed, limited edition, broadside of original text from THE DIARY and its translation into English.  Printed with a "blend roll."  Edition of 100.

$50 A hand silk-screened postcard mailed to you from Amsterdam, and an 8" x 10" Etching and Aquatint print of one frame from the original footage, in the style of the drawing. Limited edition of 50.

$75  A hand silk-screened postcard mailed to you from Amsterdam on July 22, 2011. The letterpress printed broadside of a quote from THE DIARY, AND an 8" x 10" Etching and Aquatint print of one frame from the original footage, in the style of the drawing.

$200 An 8" x 10" original drawing of one frame from the original footage in the style of the drawing below:

$500 ONLY ONE PRINT AVAILABLE A 16" x 20" photographic print of the city of Amsterdam by artist, Christina Seely, from her incredible series, LUX.  Shot on a 4 x 5 camera with an extended exposure to capture only the artificial light produced by the city at night.

THANK YOU to Christina Seely, www.christinaseely.com, for her generous support and her amazing photograph, to Jamie Meltzer for his artistic support and collaboration on the pitch video and upcoming film project, and to YOU for taking the time to visit this page.

Contributions are made safely and with ease through Amazon payments. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? Please feel free to contact me at  foster.rebecca@gmail.com. THANK YOU!