At Venice Immersive 2026, AMSTERDAM 1652: THE HANDS OF THE CITY may initially look like a particularly ambitious exercise in historical reconstruction. The 37-minute multi-user VR experience brings visitors into seventeenth-century Amsterdam, moving through streets, docks and public spaces before the burning of the old Town Hall brings several individual trajectories together. Yet speaking with its director and screenwriter Nienke Huitenga Broeren reveals another way of approaching the project. The reconstruction is important, but what interests her most happens at a much smaller scale: gestures, individual perspectives and the traces…
Nienke Huitenga Broeren, Writing New Perspectives from the Netherlands
