Dawn portrays a lily-white Russian family in radiant shades of white that are only disturbed by the almost transparent pinkish colour of the protagonists’ skin. Olaf created an almost suffocating atmosphere and an extreme degree of artificiality, in which the characters are hiding behind a façade of suppressed emotions.
Also in this combined programme
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Liquidator
Innovative use of existing archive images from Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). By Karel Doing, with sound design by Michal Osowski. -
Majesteit
Video poem by eddie d in which pompous rituals around ‘Prinsjesdag’ are exposed and reduced to their very essence by means of canny editing. -
Flashings in the Mirror
Flashings in the Mirror is a video composed of shared flashing-in-the-mirror photos, found via Google Images. -
Everytime
With a reinterpretation of a pop song released in 2004 by Britney Spears, this video demonstrates how reality and (mass) media today are strongly inte -
Birth of a Nation
How to become an ideal woman? At a cadet school in Moscow, girls are trained to be ideal citizens of the homeland. A research on… -
Brothers of Metal
Heavy metal witnessed its heyday in the 1980s as a controversial and loud music genre, with a dedicated fan base. Metal knows many subgenres… -
City of Progress
This animation shows how a city grows organically from a small dot to a complicated system of lines and forms in which our desire for… -
The Origin of Creatures
Futuristic vision of a world after a catastrophic disaster. Dark parable in which miscommunication makes it hard for the mutated limbs to cooperate.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
