According to director Bob Visser, Plan Delta (from 1983) is a ‘time fiction’, a film that examines rising sea levels in the future. Around the year 2300, a highly developed and a more primitive culture meet after catastrophic flooding. The former have lost their fertility, the latter have remained virile. Then a primitive woman is kidnapped by the other group to safeguard their future.
Shot in the 1980s amid 66 pillars the size of cathedrals in an imposing setting that seems simultaneously mythical and futuristic in the landscape of Zeeland, which is sometimes referred to as the ‘artwork of the century’. Visser’s timing was perfect: while the storm surge barrier was under construction, it looked like a formation of space ships or a temple from a long-forgotten past. Soon afterward, the building site was inundated and the gigantic pillars disappeared beneath the waves forever. What remains is an eight-kilometre-long dam, the Oosterscheldedam.
Part of RTM, the Rotterdam selection.
Ook in dit verzamelprogramma
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EXITing
Portrait of the Rotterdam poet Cornelis Bastiaan Vaandrager, a literary great who succumbed to his own compelling life. -
Het veld van eer
During their honeymoon in Verdun, Louis turns into a fanatic maniac and tries to attack his brand-new bride, Ada. -
Kranenballet
Music video of ‘Doin’ Time’ by the new-wave band Kiem, with a choreography performed by Seaport Terminals crane operators. -
Het gat van Nederland – J.A. Deelders stadsgezicht
First extensive television portrait ever made of poet Jules Deelder, where he criticised the attempts to soften Rotterdam’s image.
Film details
- Productieland
- Netherlands
- Jaar
- 1988
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2020
- Lengte
- 90'
- Medium/Formaat
- 16mm
