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Written by:
Douwe Dijkstra
Cast:
Douwe Dijkstra, Jesse Strikwerda
Cinematography:
Douwe Dijkstra
Editing:
Douwe Dijkstra
Sound:
Rob Peters
Music:
Seven League Beats
Animation:
Douwe Dijkstra
Romanian premiere
In DÉMONTABLE, our domestic space turns into a world reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels, invaded by miniature projections of the outside world. “A funny, playful film on the absurd relationship between daily life and global news. The level of media saturation we’re bombarded with creates an absurd distortion and distance between our daily routine and current affairs. Démontable explores this bizarre melange of realities by throwing the two worlds together: attack helicopters shred a newspaper, while a dinner plate suffers a drone strike. They’re a series of attempts to try and understand our world better by playing with its violent protagonists. (Douwe Dijkstra)
Director:
DOUWE DIJKSTRA (1984, The Netherlands) was educated at the ArtEZ Art Academy in Zwolle. He graduated with the film THE WASHING MACHINE (2005), which received a TENT Academy Award. DIJKSTRA works on commissioned projects like music videos, installations and short films. As a co-founder of the 33 1/3 collective, he intertwines theatre productions and video projections. Their video-mapping opera BLUEBEARD was shown in Glasgow and New York. His filmography includes: LAMP (2004), THE WASHING MACHINE (2005), BACKPACKING (2006), ZOOLDRIFT (2007), PINBALL MAN (2006), BEGUINE (2008), DE KIFT UP CLOSE (2012).
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Contact:
info[at]douwedijkstra[dot]nl
Festivals, awards:
- Rotterdam International Film Festival 2014
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2014
- Curtas Vila do Conde 2014
- Special Mention for the Best Dutch short film - Go Short Film Festival 2014
- 2nd Place Jury Prize - Oberursel Film Festival 2014
- Honorable Mention for the Youth Award - Norwegian Short Film Festival 2014
- Image Forum Festival 2014
Director's statement:
As an artist I respond to my environment. To me, one of the most interesting and striking things about the world I live in is the presence and influence of media. They represent, correspond and contradict the western world I am accustomed to. A world that sometimes strikes me as spoiled and ignorant. The films that resulted out of this process were shown as an installation in my first solo exhibition Doordouwe, together with a corresponding video compilation that shows the work from my perspective as the creator. Often I find the accidental images or making-of footage in my projects very telling. By showing the relation between myself as an artist and the films I create, the footage reveals additional stories. The resulting short film, DÉMONTABLE, is a combination of the films shown in combination with the making of footage, together with a lot of new material and changes. As a short film on one screen it’s a new work on its own. The topics of the material didn't change, but the film shows new links between different scenes and between maker and creation. It's a combination between my visual statements about the conflicting realities of daily life and global news, and the process of making them. (Douwe Dijkstra)
As an artist I respond to my environment. To me, one of the most interesting and striking things about the world I live in is the presence and influence of media. They represent, correspond and contradict the western world I am accustomed to. A world that sometimes strikes me as spoiled and ignorant. The films that resulted out of this process were shown as an installation in my first solo exhibition Doordouwe, together with a corresponding video compilation that shows the work from my perspective as the creator. Often I find the accidental images or making-of footage in my projects very telling. By showing the relation between myself as an artist and the films I create, the footage reveals additional stories. The resulting short film, DÉMONTABLE, is a combination of the films shown in combination with the making of footage, together with a lot of new material and changes. As a short film on one screen it’s a new work on its own. The topics of the material didn't change, but the film shows new links between different scenes and between maker and creation. It's a combination between my visual statements about the conflicting realities of daily life and global news, and the process of making them. (Douwe Dijkstra)