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Documentary projects The peat stack and the woodland (2004) / Bertus Zefat Memorial Bertus Zefat Memorial. Ab van Dien pays tribute to the people who helped him hiding during WW II. Film by Martin van den Oever. Script and voice: Petra Timmer. Poem and voice: Remco Campert. Editing: Maarten Theuwkens. Music: Gyorgy Kurtag - Jos Janssen. Dutch spoken English subtitles.
Water of gold (2010) / Remembrances of a war 1945 - 1950 There
is a shared history between the two nations of Indonesia and the
Netherlands, whereby the main question for us is how to share this
history more actively.
In our transnational approach to the Dutch/Indonesian war (1946-49) we
filmed in Indonesia, in collaboration with our Indonesian team, TNI
soldiers and Republican warriors. We looked carefully for a balance
that did not effect the reflections of the Dutch veterans that we
filmed later in the Netherlands. Our first intention is to make a Dutch
audience aware of the Indonesian need for freedom at that time. As a
second step we wish to give an Indonesian audience a better insight
into how the Dutch are dealing with their colonial past and the war
they lost.
Starting from a more (visual) anthropologically oriented approach to
history and storytelling, we would like to argue with our Water of Gold
trilogy for a more radical point of view that breaks with the normal
frameworks found in both Dutch and Indonesian national historical
narratives. After their pension many veterans became historians of
their own history. It is very rewarding to talk with older veterans for
several reasons not only to find a specific personal truth but also to
relate that personal truth to a more objectified and factual historical
truth as it exists outside the 'soldier'. Analogous to two energies
that resonate physically on a higher level. With minimal means history
is pictured as a bigger unified field by opposing different positions
moving away from the mental borders that exist. Shot as short
documentary portraits in such a way that their speech can easily be
perceived as interior monologues. This is basically what we tried to
achieve with Water of Gold and want to elaborate upon in the next
stages, namely parts two and three. Utilizing the same concept in the
2nd part we want to offer a truly international perspective by
portraying Japanese, British/Indian, Australian and other veterans that
were involved in this war. The 3rd and last part of the trilogy will
focus on the fact that in a war the local population is the real
victim, as they have to be loyal to the warring parties. A great deal
of material has already been shot by our Indonesian colleague on this
subject.
For a more active sharing we will create an online Water of Gold
‘webdoc’ application that is interactive and can easily be found by
history teachers both in Indonesia and the Netherlands. In this web
application you are invited to delve into this history making your own
selection, crossing borders thematically and giving your own input. |
Libera Me (2015) A transnational approach to the colonial war between Indonesia and the Netherlands (1946-49). With personal reflections of some veterans of war from both sides a short circular story is constructed, merging and reconciling both perspectives. We meander between past and present and between two nations that came to be further apart then they allready were.
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