Creative Re-Use
A Million Pictures encourages contemporary artists and the creative industries to experiment with lantern slides or digitised images. This site presents the documentation of artistic and creative re-uses of cultural heritage from the collections of our Associated Partners (see also our section in “Events”) and includes examples of creative re-use from related projects

Paper: Experiences with Creative Re-Use at Performing and Knowing
Performance and re-enactment have been employed as a method of research in the history of science for several decades. The workshop Performing and Knowing – Experimental and Sensory Approaches organised…
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Magic Lantern Show: De Toverlantaarn. Voorganger van de bioscoop
Our Associated Partner EYE Film Institute Netherlands organised a lantern show. Lanternists Annet Duller and Wim Bos will give a perform the programme “De Toverlantaarn. Voorganger van de bioscoop” (The…
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Discussion Notes: “Experience with Creative Re-Use”
These discussion notes document the evaluation of experiences with the creative Re-Use projects and activities that were developed in the course of the A Million Pictures Project. We publish these…
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DVD: Magic Lantern Heritage Today. Examples of Creative Re-Use.
Integral part of the A Million Pictures project is the collaboration between researchers, archivists, curators and artists. This DVD documents various forms of artistic engagement with lantern slide heritage that…
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Video: Molens Tulpen Klompen en Kaas
In the 20-minute video documentary historian Leen Breure and Sarah Dellmann explain where today’s national clichés of the Netherlands come from. “Molens Tulpen Klompen en Klaas – ruim 100 jaar…
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Installation: Cinderella – Two Sides of the Story
Students from University of the Arts Utrecht develop an installation, inspired by the magic lantern and its ability to tell stories with light. By means of coloured light projected from…
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Animation: Slide of Life
Students from the University of the Arts Utrecht (NL) create an animation film based on digitized lantern slides in the collection of EYE Filmmuseum and Utrecht University Museum. “After seeing the…
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Exhibition: Light! Magic Lantern and the Digital Image
The temporary exhibition Light! Magic Lantern and the Digital Image. Affinities between the Nineteenth and Twenty-first Century will be on display at Museu del Cinema, Girona. The exhibition was planned…
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Exhibition: Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson brillant
Official opening and premiere of Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson brillant Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson Brilliant is a new installation by Sarah Vanagt, consisting of five magic lantern projections…
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The Raree Man’s Peep Show
Tony Lidington and his troupe ‘Promenade Promotions’ have put on a peepshow based on magic lantern slides digitised from our Partner Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. Glorying in…
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