So You Don’t Get Lost
23’’, 2019 / Narrative
An afternoon in the life of Isolde, a seven-year-old girl who lives in the countryside. Her walk home after school runs past meadows, field roads, forest paths and a stream. The perception of the landscapes and the changing weather form the simple thread for this slow storytelling. Games and daydreams take up her time, until she experiences a very surprising encounter.
A short film created with the help of Isolde Verbeken, Renske van der Sluis, Camille Sultan, Ruud Eijkenboom, Hans De Wit, Johan Opstaele, Fiona Guillemant, Simon Oeyen, Alexandra Strauss, Maureen Merchiers, Raf Enckels, Pierre Greco, Antoine Hurdebise, Dieter Diependaele, Lennert De Taeye, Mario Debaene, Hilde D’Haeyere, Angela Krijnen & Hans de Jong
At first I imagined that the lights in the cinema were turned off in order to better see the images on the screen. During the projection of the film I watched the spectators sit quietly in their seats. The darkness separates the viewer from the other, to be at the same time alone and together. Everyone who watches the film creates his or her own world. From every detail of a city or meadow, a character or a subject that appears on the screen, the spectator creates his own universe. Film does not inform us about a single world, but about multiple worlds. He does not speak to us of one reality, but of infinite realities. In the darkness of the room, everyone has the opportunity to dream and to freely express their dreams. If art can change things and come up with new ideas, it is only possible through the free creativity of the viewer. - Abbas Kiarostami excerpt from textes, entretiens, filmographie complete
What is childhood? How did I look at the world as a child?
I am inspired by filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami who create films to make us think about reality and raise questions about who we are, and what we do as individuals and as a society. By focusing our attention on actions and elements that often pass unnoticed due to their everyday life, we become more self-aware of existence as time goes by. The film screen should be a window on the world that enables the viewer to make a journey of discovery.
