How to Describe a Cloud

  • 80'
  • Netherlands
  • 2013
David Verbeek made this film on a tiny budget in the lull before his larger Dead & Beautiful had been fully financed. With its reflections on the role of spirituality in modern society, this film may be a precursor to his next, a socially critical vampire film.
But How to Describe a Cloud can stand on its own two feet. The story of Liling seems to unfold intuitively. When her mother goes blind, the young musician is suddenly forced to leave her big-city cocoon and return to the small island where she grew up. There, her scientific approach to blindness, in which she presents the world to her mother through words on the advice of the doctor, clashes with her old mother's spiritual approach. She argues that she can’t see the world around her any more, but can still sense it. Could the science-fiction drawings of the former scientist with whom she flirts in the city provide mediation? Also see Immortelle in Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films.
  • 80'
  • Netherlands
  • 2013
Director
David Verbeek
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2013
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
80'
Medium
DCP
Language
Mandarin
Producer
Wout Conijn
Production Company
Conijn Film
Sales
Conijn Film
Screenplay
David Verbeek
Cinematography
Jean Counet
Editor
Patrick Schonewille
Sound Design
Peter Warnier
Cast
Lu Yi-Ching, Huang Lu
Website
http://www.davidverbeek.com/
Director
David Verbeek
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2013
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
80'
Medium
DCP
Language
Mandarin
Producer
Wout Conijn
Production Company
Conijn Film
Sales
Conijn Film
Screenplay
David Verbeek
Cinematography
Jean Counet
Editor
Patrick Schonewille
Sound Design
Peter Warnier
Cast
Lu Yi-Ching, Huang Lu
Website
http://www.davidverbeek.com/