Anna Abrahams

Anna ABRAHAMS (1963, Norway) works as producer, director and editor for the independent production company Rongwrong, which she founded with filmmaker Jan Frederik Groot in 1989. As co-founder of De Filmbank, she coordinates the distribution of the Dutch experimental film.
Filmography
Bouwen voor het licht/Building The Van Nelle Factories 1917 – 1933 (1991, short doc, co-dir), Simultane stad/Simultaneous City (1994, short, co-dir), Sotsgorod – Steden voor de heilstaat (1995, doc), Tropengraf. Een West-indische overlevering (1998, short doc), Aantekeningen uit het ondergrondse/Notes from the Underground (1998, short doc, co-dir), Resort (2000, short, co-dir), Machine-oog/Machine Eye (2000, short, co-dir), Roeien/Rowing (2003, short, co-dir), Nul graden (2003, short, co-dir), Cadavre Exquis (2004, short doc), 5 Walks (2008, short), DIY (2009, instal, co-dir), Desert 79°: 3 Journeys Beyond the Known World (2010, short), 7 Peaks (2012, short)
Anna Abrahams at IFFR
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Earth of Delightful Gardening
A sparkling walk through a garden in which time and space do not behave in a linear fashion and targeted viewing is briefly irrelevant.
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DIY
This home-movie colour film shows people building their own house. The concept of DIY is portrayed literally in this sequence of images.
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5 Walks
Shot in the last stretch of primeval Forest in Europe, this poetic work is about the myths that surround the forest.
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Cadavre Exquis
Work and approach of five experimental film makers (Henri Plaat, Joost Rekveld, Gerard Holthuis, Lonnie van Brummelen, Jeroen Eisinga) depicted fet
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7 Peaks
7 Peaks is a film about mankind’s primal drive to climb to the top of every mountain.
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Tropengraf, een West-Indische overlevering
A documentary using archive footage that looks into the background to a murder in 1913 on the island of Curaçao.
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Aantekeningen uit het ondergrondse
Experimental documentary about six independent film-makers in Holland.
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Desert 79°: 3 Journeys Beyond the Known World
Polar traveller’s report looks over the edge of the known world. Part two of a trilogy about the cultural significance of the European landsc