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feature length film by Jeanette Groenendaal with
music & sound design by Stelios Manousakis & Stephanie Pan
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Synopsis
At the age of seven, director Jeanette Groenendaal moved to a deeply religious village. It was the 1970s, and the girl’s arrival from the big city of Utrecht provoked fear in the hearts of the inhabitants of the small hamlet in the Dutch Bible Belt. They saw her as an “alien” and a “city whore,” and treated her accordingly. The teacher at her strict Calvinist school called her the “Devil’s daughter” and the whole class repeated his words. Thirty-eight years later, Groenendaal (Dutch Cocaine Factory, 2007) returns to the village to film a personal study of the scapegoat mechanism. She sets up a complex performance/film project in the village, staging tableaux performances based on the frozen images from her memories of this emotionally charged location. This stylized autobiography is more than a personal therapy session or a documentary about a fundamentalist community. It returns to the past, not out of revenge or a need to judge, but to investigate the roots of a past that is returning to the present, with the contemporary outpouring of religion, conservatism, xenophobia, and judgmental moral standards.
| Year: | 2011 |
| Type: | Feature-length film |
| Description: | Music & sound design |
| Duration: | 82′ |
| Credits: | Director: Jeanette Groenendaal Photography: Jeanette Groenendaal Screenplay: Jeanette Groenendaal Editing: Zoot Derks, Jeanette Groenendaal Sound recording: Jeanette Groenendaal Music: Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan Sound Design: Stelios Manousakis Music recording, editing, mixing, production: Stelios Manousakis Additional music recordings: Stephanie Pan Musicians: Computer Aided Breathing, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan, Kirstin Gramlich, Jelte van Andel Production: Jeanette Groenendaal for G-netwerk Audio Post: Warning Studios Color Correction: Jeroen Weeda Translation: Stephanie Pan Subtitling: Zoot Derks Additional Camera: Martin Hansen, Jandries Groenendijk, Zoot Derks, Baronesse van Wassenaer Performances: Eva van Kleef, Lotte Duncker, Cille Lansade, Manah Depauw, Stephanie Pan, Otobong Nkanga, Jihyun Youn, Susanne Ohmann, Jochen Stechmann, Sarah Manya, Voin de Voin Soundtrack recorded at: Orgelpark (Amsterdam, NL), De Flat (The Hague, NL), Institute of Sonology – BEA5 studio (The Hague, NL) Met dank aan: Het Nederlandse Filmfonds O en O, Fonds BKVB LIVE, AFK, DasArts, DXARTS, en vele vele anderen! |
Screenings (selection)
Premiered at IDFA Amsterdam November 2011
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, DE
Reijkjavik Film Festival, Reijkjavik, IS
Planet Doc, Warsaw, PL
Festival de Cine, Bogota, CO
PANIk 7, Vienna, AT
Guanajuato Film Festival, Guanajuato, MX
Parnu Film Festival, Parnu, EE
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scottish Borders, UK
Aleppo 11th International Photo festival, Aleppo, Syria
Het Nutshuis, Den Haag, NL
De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
De VerkadeFabriek, Den Bosch, NL
Somnio Film Festival, Alkmaar, NL
Landjuweel: Openbare Werken, Amsterdam, NL
VIDEO
3 short fragments from the film: