A day at the beach. Atmospheric seascapes. Filmed with a special super-telephoto lens that gives some images a painterly quality. Three people are standing with their bicycles on the dike gazing into the distance. They see the shapes of human figures disappearing and a very old sailing boat.
Also in this combined programme
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Nostalghia Places
Serious but also playful homage to Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia. Filmic pilgrimage. -
White Christmas Inspirations
Powerful associative series of images that only refer ironically to a White Christmas. -
Pieces of Dead Reality
Free association of impressionist documentary images. Very lively ‘dead pieces’ of film. -
Remembrance of Snow Photographs
A car crash in the snow is at the start of a sequence of surreal associations.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2003
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- -
