The Dutch Mountain
two-channel video installation
16:9 full HD 50p, 40:00 min
2015
Imagine: a mountain, smack-dab in the middle of a polder, within the landscape of the Netherlands. The horizontal interjected with the vertical. Flatness disrupted by height. It is an amalgam of landscapes we see before us, of flora and fauna. This fantasy is not as delirious as it might seem, given how the Dutch are continuously re-designing and shaping their environment, working with and against the ever-present water. The Dutch Mountain is a realistic work of 'science fiction' that plays with the fine line between fiction and reality. It is assembled through fragments of inhabited landscapes and conversations with experts in the field. Their detailed descriptions of how the mountain will look, how it will be maintained, and the influence it might have on the surrounding environment does in fact materialize the mountain in the mind of the viewer, makes it come alive.
- Cinematographer and Film editor
- Mirte van Duppen
- Text editor
- Lotte Lentes
- Text translation
- Anneriek van Laarhoven
- Sound
- Benedikt Wöppel
- Voices
- Ben Apeldoorn, Emiel Schäfer, Ewout Eggink, Fred Dekker, Gijs de Heij, Hennie Spronk, Kees Oudheusden, Robert Jan Peters, Peter van der Weij
Text based on interviews with Ernst van Alphen Professor of Literary Studies – Department of Film and Literary Studies – Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Johan Greve Technical Government official & Head official housing corporation Almere, Niels Kreuk
Vertically cultivating farmer, Maatschap Kreuk, Els Molenaar Leisure specialist, Blauw Research B.V., Jan Nagel Birdwatcher, Landschapsbeheer Flevoland, Jeroen Reinhold Biologist/ ecologist, Landschapsbeheer Flevoland, Dr. Stephan de Roode Climatologist – Assistant professor – Research themes: Clouds, Atmosphere, TU Delft University of Technology, Jan Willem Farmer, NoordOostpolder
Landscapes Amsterdam (Amsterdamse bos & Decathlon & NS station), Andijk (Maatschap Kreuk), Biddinghuizen, Delft (TU Delft), Dronten, Groningen (Bjoeks), Leiden (de Bult), Lelystad (Landschapsbeheer Flevoland & Lelystad Airport), Mierlo (Gulbergen Golf), Rotterdam (Blauw & ZOO Blijdorp), Tilburg (Tivoli Garage), Wassenaar (Meijendel)
Clouds in a box TU Delft
Climbers Elsa Foskea, Misha Martinovic
Gulbergen Golfclub Manager, Rachel and Marshall, Mimi
Special thanks to Rob Schröder, Daniel van der Velden, Astrid Vorstermans, Chris Keulemans, Ivo van Stiphout, Jan Kees van Kampen, Frans Damen, Giada Fiorindi, Hein van Duppen, Jan van Duppen, Johanna Nocke, Mirjam Damen, Rebekka Fries
Sandberg Instituut, 2015