Conducting Boijmans

  • 75'
  • Netherlands
  • 2015
‘It’s all about seeing, looking,' Sjarel Ex says halfway through the film. And he’s not exaggerating. Even his meeting with the 100-year-old curator at the Boijmans museum is preceded by an image: first the name badge on her blouse has to be in place, only then can they talk. This is just one of countless lovely, highly meaningful moments in Conducting Boijmans, a film that principally demonstrates how many different qualities the contemporary museum director must have: from art connoisseur to diplomat, from manager to child-minder.
Ex sees the museum as an instrument you can have a go at playing - and so he does, with verve. For example, at the end of the film, when like a kind of Pied Piper he leads a school class to new art. It is striking how much manual work goes into this playing. He not only looks, but drills, lifts, paints and glues in the film. After all, we are in Rotterdam.
  • 75'
  • Netherlands
  • 2015
Director
Sonia Herman Dolz
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2015
Festival Edition
IFFR 2015
Length
75'
Medium
DCP
Language
Dutch
Producer
René Mendel
Production Company
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Sales
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Screenplay
Sonia Herman Dolz
Cinematography
Paul van den Bos
Editor
Rémi van der Heiden
Music
Paul M. van Brugge
Website
http://www.interakt.nl
Director
Sonia Herman Dolz
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Netherlands
Year
2015
Festival Edition
IFFR 2015
Length
75'
Medium
DCP
Language
Dutch
Producer
René Mendel
Production Company
Interakt
Sales
Interakt
Screenplay
Sonia Herman Dolz
Cinematography
Paul van den Bos
Editor
Rémi van der Heiden
Music
Paul M. van Brugge
Website
http://www.interakt.nl