Wijdeveld is moving

Wijdeveld is moving

19.06.2010

'Plan the impossible', the documentary by Hank Onrust about Hendrik Wijdeveld, was shown Saturday June 19 at the Filmhuis Den Haag, part of the movie programme 'Creativity Wanted'. Freelance journalist Chris Reinewald delivered a short lecture beforehand.

In the documentary, Hendrik Wijdeveld, impassioned 'life artist', proves he was a gifted story-teller and performer. In long and emotional sentences he talks about 'Wendingen' (the famous magazine from 1918 until 1931), his encounters with Frank Loyd Wright, the French architect Louis Cordonnier (head-architect of the Peace palace in The Hague), and the support of his loving wife Ellen Kohn. For the government in the Netherlands he build some residential streets. The realized architecture by Wijdeveld was not ground breaking. His completely headstrong idea to dig a shank of 24 km into the ground and his Theater for the people with an entrance that looks like a vagina, were never realized. Wijdeveld was a pragmatic utopian; 'the fortune bringer, the future and the lovely'. Hendrik Wijdeveld almost became 102 years old and kept on believing in his own Utopia, 'until the last cry'.