Metro Cinema Society: EIFF: Just because I'm standing here, doesn't mean I want to

EIFF: Just because I'm standing here, doesn't mean I want to

Dutch Experimental & Documentary Shorts

A (re) presentation of contemporary Dutch landscape in several variations and moods; urban reconstruction of cultural housing, deserted orderly suburbs and a cultivated countryside in which the sound of a nearby (high)way is always present. This film-program transports the continuosly changing Dutch landscape out of 16th century renaissance painting tradition and into the 21st century moving image; from farmers bailing hay in layers of extremely colourful celluoloid to a wanderer finding his way through a black & white industrial seascape. Curated by Pim Zwier, in attendance.

Rating: 14A (14A)

Screenings:

Saturday September 27 at 9:15PM Tweet

Oh Great, Now Look What Happened

Director: Tijmen Hauer, Gerbrand Burger

Netherlands 2007, 4 min, 35mm

Oh Great, Now Look What Happened is a fascinating and puzzling impression of a strange and unexpected event. An indefinable feeling of fear and threat is portrayed in a short film that is both melancholy and funny. Soundtrack by A... view more

Xenia I, II, III

Director: Anna Lange

Netherlands 2006, 12 min, 35mm

In the triptych Xenia, a child's outlook is shown as a magical, mythical and even mystical point of view. The very personal environment of the filmmaker's early childhood was used to express this in an Apollonian manner.

Idyll

Director: Esther Urlus

Netherlands 2008, 5 min, 16mm

An attack of imagined nostalgia for childhood. The applied do-it-yourself bas-relief print technique ensures a rich colored image.

Jolanda 23

Director: Pim Zwier

Netherlands 2008, 9 min, 35mm

In a meadow, a man walks with a hand lawnmower. The first preparations are made to take a photograph of a cow. Jolanda 23 is a short observing documentary. The visual report of all the actions that lead to achieving... view more

Passage

Director: Paul van de Wildenberg

Netherlands 2007, 15 min, DigiBeta

Passage is a short, evocative film. In the early morning a man is waiting in the docklands, wanders along a messy beach while the heat increases, killing time in mental isolation. A visualization of uprootedness.

Number Two

Director: Guido van der Werve

Netherlands 2003, 3 min, 35mm

In a desolate, provincial neighbourhood the filmmaker films an ode to spring. This can hardly turn out right now can it?

Amsterdam Reconstruction

Director: Jérome Schlomoff

Netherlands 2007, 19 min, Beta SP

A walk through the cultural ruins of the city of Amsterdam. Using a 35mm film tray with a pinhole, Schlomoff captures the empty halls of the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, Gallery W139, and the cinema of Maison Descartes.

Nook & Cranny

Director: Francien van Everdingen

Netherlands 2008, 3 min, 16mm

Nook & Cranny is a moving painting of an interior in which the furniture behaves like chickens breaking out of their egg shell, or like the mouse that you see sneaking away in a corner of your eye. The table... view more

This screening is part of the larger thematic series: