A lady in a Seventeenth Century dress stands on the edge of a lake and looks out over the water. When we approach her the lady lifts her dress up and we disappear underneath her skirts. In there a small theatre piece takes place. A young farm boy proclaims, and acts out how he was seduced by a fallen woman, in front of a live audience. Later he finds her defiled corpse back on a field. A short bit of black and white footage shows what has really happened, or at least what the boy claims has happened. A story about the loss of innocence, and a ‘whodunnit’ as well.
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L’étreinte
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Heaven’s Gate
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Rosecolored Flower
A rose in a glass vase on the windowsill. Soft Vermeer-like light falling into the dusky room, and playing through the crystal-clear water. Most of
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Spaced Odditties
Pictures from a black and white documentary about the life in fresh water, recomposed on the celluloid ribbon by an image by image collage to form
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Pony Changes Everything
A man explains global currency markets without the help of his formerly trusty rockin’ talkin’ pony, who is missing. Without the pony,
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Bouquets 26-27
Bouquets 26 and 27 are part of a series of one minute films, structured visually in the camera during filming covering a variety of subjects. Bouqu
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2004
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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