Mijn Enschede

In the ego documentary Mijn Enschede, the documentary maker Astrid Bussink returns to the city where she studied at art school and which she moved away from on 13 May 2000, the day the city was hit by a massive firework disaster that killed 22 and left nearly a thousand wounded. Bussink, whose De verloren kolonie was screened in Rotterdam in 2008, moves into an apartment with a view of the memorial to the disaster and tries to come to terms with it. She fills the space with photo and video pictures of the disaster, starting with her own photographs of the smouldering remains of her house. She talks to victims and to the family of André de Vries, the suspect who was eventually found not guilty of causing the disaster. She approaches conspiracy theorists and the two determined detectives who continued the investigation which they thought had been too rushed. Bussink herself becomes increasingly entangled in the various theories.