Verwisseling van de namen van de steden Rotterdam en Den Haag
On the banks of the River Meuse, Wim Gijzen puts up a town sign. ‘The Hague’ in no way corresponds to the surroundings as the Euromast (observation tower in Rotterdam) can be seen in the distance. What happens when you swap two cities’ names? Gijzen studies spaces and their names in this black-and-white film.
Also in this combined programme
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The Song of Rio Jim
A musical film experience. The sound, not the images, tells the story. An homage to the founders of the Western genre. With brutal wind instruments.
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From Our Own Correspondent
A journalistic animated documentary that studies the boundaries of professional and personal space using interview techniques.
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Karakia – The Resetting Ceremony
A ceremony on a glacier in New Zealand that erases the racism of colonial history with a Maori blessing.
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We Are Become Death
Triptych that reveals life on earth in all its gruesomeness and beauty. Destruction, be it natural or human, plays a major role.
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Bunte Kuh
Reliving memories of a holiday, a sense of impending doom. An experimental film chronicle, like flipping through a photo album.
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Panels for the Walls of the World
A 20th-century collage: ranging from Marilyn Monroe, moon missions and dancing twirlers to military parades. One of the first video mixing experiments
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Extended Horizon
Marxt explores an inhospitable, rugged environment by drone. There are some fancy villas that protect the inhabitants and their property like fortress
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Les contagions barbares
Colourful collage in which this experimental film criticises Western ideas on gender, violence, sex and other taboos.
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Weapons Conference
Advert for the weapons industry. Playful and light in form, serious content that reflects on the role and power of the arms sector.
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There Are No Limits to What I Can Do
Richard Dinter from Sweden talks about his life as a kleptomaniac: from the triumphs of stealing to the poor example he is for his daughter.
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Trespass
In a realistic animation style, a little avatar reconnoitres the world around him, without leaving the four walls of his house.
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Burka Boogie Woogie
In this short graphic dance film, a burka leads a life of its own and plays with the fear of Islam.
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Two Thousand Walls (a Song for Jayyous)
An impression of the average evening of a family in Palestine’s conflict zone. Faint sounds. A prayer, a poem. The sound of a family.
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23 Barbiepuppen kippen um
23 Barbies in a row. One by one they fall accompanied by a cacophony of humming. Dramatic. Dryly funny.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 1971
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 2"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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