Melle van Essen, NSC
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Melle van Essen, NSC at IFFR
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Het is een schone dag geweest
Personal documentary about the farming parents of the film-maker.
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Tussen hemel en aarde
Fascinating, layered documentary about the friendship between two circus artistes in Uzbekistan that is put under pressure because they make opposi
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Keep the Timbila Playing
Documentary about Venancio Mbande, legendary leader of the timbila orchestras, using giant African xylophones that are played almost exclusively in
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In the Ocean
This film looks at the state of modern music in New York at the turn of the 21st century. Interviews with John Cage, Elliot Carter, Steve Reich and
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Something Old, Something New in Red, Green and Blue
Colour music for the digital eye.
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Beyond Sleep
A robust yet sensitive adaptation of W. F. Hermans’s famous novel Beyond Sleep (Nooit meer slapen), about a vain, struggling geology student
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Conducting Mahler
Documentary focusing on the interpretation of compositions by Gustav Mahler by different conductors.
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Tabee Toean, op patrouille in Nederlands Indië
Documentary about Holland’s military attempts to keep its colony, now Indonesia, after the war.
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A Labyrinth of Time
Experimental documentary about Elliott Carter. It shows his musical development and puts his compositions in their temporal context. The city of Ne
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