As if the title requires any further clarification, it is also stated explicitly in the film itself: WORK ‘is about work, that is very clear.’ But the straightforwardness of this introduction is mirrored by the immense chaos of the execution. WORK is anything but a clear, straightforward argument. Rather, it is a film like a pinball machine: Van Lieshout’s mind and camera run completely free, switching effortlessly from the general to the private, the deep to the banal, from Helmond to St. Petersburg.
As a method of filmmaking, its freedom and nonchalance are enviable - or at least come across that way. ‘Don’t go sitting down and wandering off,’ the artist/cineaste says at the beginning of the film in his wonderful Brabant accent. As if he senses what is to come. Because we are then taken on a journey that meanders and confuses while at the same time (and this makes the film a truly unique experience) also gives insight into his thought and work processes. And so - via an almost miraculously circumlocutory route - the title is in fact very apt. See also The Basement in the compilation programme Personal Museum.
- Director
- Erik van Lieshout
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2015
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 80'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- WORK
- Language
- Dutch
- Producers
- Dragan Bakema, Kuba Szutkowski
- Production Company
- Popov Film
- Sales
- Popov Film
- Screenplay
- Inge Hardeman, Suzanne Weenink
- Cinematography
- Erik van Lieshout
- Editor
- Core van der Hoeven
- Production Design
- Erik van Lieshout
- Sound Design
- Jaim Sahuleka
- Local Distributor
- Cinema Delicatessen
- Website
- http://www.popovfilm.nl