The Desert of the Real

Documentary

 

seriousFilm, visual research supported by Dutch Mediafund – development supported by the Netherlands FilmFund / Cobofund / NPO – TELEDOC

Synopsis (Dutch) Wat is echt? Een omkering: we denken dat psychotici hun grip op de werkelijkheid verliezen maar accepteren we in het dagelijks niet juist dat er van alles om ons heen is waar we geen grip op hebben? Wat is tijd, wat is taal? Niet het bovennatuurlijke, fantastische, surrealistische is het object van fascinatie in de film, maar de realiteit zelf.

“It happens that the stage sets collapse… At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. The “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. Suddenly, the absurd person sees through the routine, and the ‘chain of daily gestures’ is broken. Now everything begins to seem pointless and comical. Here we all are, all of us eating and drinking to preserve our precious existence. And there’s nothing, absolutely no reason for existing. Human turned into a machine, of repeated meaningless action. Once stripped of its common romanticisms, the world is a foreign, strange and inhuman place; true knowledge is impossible and rationality and science cannot explain the world.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sysiphus

scenario / regie Luuk Bouwman
producent seriousFilm Marc Thelosen
camera Jan Pieter Tuinstra
animatie Edwin Kuijpers, Jos Wabeke
research Luuk Bouwman, Marrit van de Langenberg, Linde van Schuppen, Gwen Pol
grafisch vormgeving Pien den Hollander