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TXT_ENTRYSPECS Englisch film Title: When we are BIG Original film title: Als we GROOT zijn Date Completed: Januari 2006 Synopsis: Een schokkende meditatie op het voorbijgaan van de onschuldige kindertijd. Kijken we naar een intellectuele crime passionel, de onsterfelijke liefde, het verlies van de jeugd of alleen maar naar een abstract en surrealistisch stilleven van een spartelend meisje in de ijzeren greep van een in gedachten verzonken figuur? Voor de toeschouwer een innerlijke ervaring die gepaard zal gaan met de vraag: 'Waarom...?' A shocking meditation on the passing of an innocent childhood. Is it an intellectual crime of passion, everlasting love, loss of youth or only an abstract and surrealistic still life of a girl thrashing about in the iron grip of a figure lost in thought? For the observer an inner experience linked to the question: 'Why...?' Running time: 6:42 Original format: 35mm Screening format: 35mm Color or B/W: Color Category: Experimental / Fiction Director: Eveline Ketterings Credits: > SEE CREDITS Artist statement: The question'why?' is always a motivation to change reality. The moment you found the awnser...then suddenly, there is an other 'why?'. Why? There is always a new start accompanied by this question! Artists biography: Eveline Ketterings (Rotterdam, '65) works as theater- and filmmaker, performer and operasinger. Her first 'official' filmwork is done in 1998. It's an operafragment 'Dido's farewell'. Most of her work concentrates on 'confrontation' and 'creating new values'. Since 1999, she's made experimental works in which she often performs the leading role herself. More and more she became a filmmaker though she still loves to performe and make theater.
TXT_SYNOPSYSEen schokkende meditatie op het voorbijgaan van de onschuldige kindertijd. Genomineerd voor de Prix UIP Rotterdam. Kijken we naar een intellectuele crime passionel, de onsterfelijke liefde, het verlies van de jeugd of alleen maar naar een abstract en surrealistisch stilleven van een spartelend meisje in de ijzeren greep van een in gedachten verzonken figuur? Voor de toeschouwer een innerlijke ervaring die gepaard zal gaan met de vraag: 'Waarom...?'
TXT_CREDITSAls wij GROOT zijn... Regie Eveline Ketterings Cast Jean-Pierre Schumacher Hanna Buitenhuis Camera Bastiaan Houtkooper NSC Focus Puller Luc Brefeld Erik Bannenberg Assistent OW Jos Rosier Clapper Loaders Bianca van Riemsdijk Michele van Hal Monique Portegies Gaffer 1 Valérie Blom Gaffer 2 Martin Roozeboom Ass. Belichting Erik de Wildt Willem van Eerden Zen Bloot Tom Northam Grime Leo Malipaard Liesbeth de Boer Runner Cor Hoogerdijk Locatie Manager Paul Bierhaus Catering Pieter Le Clercq Cati Prout Muziek Cor Hoogerdijk Eveline Ketterings Karin Preslmayr Joram Lehmann Geluid/Compositie Sheep Entertainment Mixage Studio Equipe Montage Eveline Ketterings Website Marcel van der Zwet Grafix Seger van Wijk Casting Ineke Hooghuis Eveline Ketterings Camera Casting OW Mischa Koorneef Genja Ferschtman Begeleiding Hanna Claudio Buitenhuis Floor van benthem Decorbouw Rob van de Mark Marcel van der Zwet Eveline Ketterings Cor Hoogerdijk Paul Bierhaus Bouwvakkers Dick Puister Mick Willemsen Deze film werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door NFF, RFF , RKS, CBK, VSB, We Insure, Sheep Entertainment, 8X10 Met speciale dank aan: Het Licht Traffic Privezwembad Dick Puister en personeel Puister Enterprises bv, De club van 4, Studio Equipe Holland Equipment (EFF) Kodak AVP Koppie Onder Zwembad West, Oost, Sportfondsen bad, Neon, Inge Spapens, Roger Keizer, Jup de Heer, Marcel van der Zwet, Daniel Lehmann, Nadine en Renske, De ouders van alle kinderen en de kinderen zelf. What Fun (The right side won) Sheep Entertainment (Stichting 8x10) (c) 2006
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TXT_CONTACTDistributor Europe & the rest of the world PARADISTRIBUTION 8x10 / Sheep Entertainment MATH:DIJK 485-487 3026GK Rotterdam Telephone: 0031-6-16508001 info@sheep-entertainment.nl www.sheep-entertainment.nl FILMBANK Vondelstraat 69-71 1071 AA Amsterdam tel. 020 6125184 info@filmbank.nl www.filmbank.nl Distributor for the Americas Filmbank Ralph McKay Box 914 Marfa TX 79843 amovie@sbcglobal.net
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Sep 4, 2006bloggingsundance: Telluride Dispatch: Day Three1. Any comment on the appalling short "When We Are Big"? This is the only time I've ever heard a film actually booed, at Telluride. It's hard for me to understand how this could have been selected (and many people I ran into said the same thing). Posted at 3:25AM on Sep 5th 2006 by David 0 starshttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloggingsundance.com%2F2006%2F09%2F04%2Ftelluride-dispatch-day-three%2F
September 5th, 2006myfiveyearplan: Telluride, Part 4.Best of Fest: DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT Worst of Fest: LITTLE CHILDREN High Point of Festival: PLAYTIME Low Point: Booing after WHEN WE ARE BIG THE PAGE TURNER - Another moment that will go down as a formative experience, if not for the film itself (Deborah Francois is great/hot; film is shockingly mean-spirited, extremely efficient and well-paced storytelling; potently unsettling final act). The formative part was the absolute heartbreak I experienced when the audience booed the powerfully impressionistic short WHEN WE ARE BIG, which played before hand, for the reprehensible transgressive act depicted therein. Many confessed they had never heard of a film getting booed at the festival before, and I found it profoundly embarrassing. Simply put, WHEN WE ARE BIG, which I suggested as a programming choice, is among the better short films I’ve seen in recent memory - that its gorgeous poetry and troubling exploration of the relationship between childlike play and murder upset people is perhaps the greatest signal of just how strong it is. Director Eveline Kettering, who graciously smiled as she was booed, clearly understands that her work is not meant to be appreciated by everyone, but she was more than willing to talk to people about what her film meant. Oh, did I mention how hot Deborah Francois is in THE PAGE TURNER?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfiveyearplan.net%2F
September 9, 2006rockymountainnews: ...and one flopOddly, the film that elicited the strongest and most vocal reaction at Telluride may have been one of its shortest. The brief but excruciating Dutch short When We Were Big opens with a man and a young girl playing at the side of a swimming pool. The girl may or may not be his daughter. The two seem to be having a fine time. Soon the man jumps into the pool with the child and sinks to the bottom. He pulls the girl underwater with him, and clings to her hand so she can't surface. She flails in the water and ultimately drowns. He's able to hold his breath and swim off. It's not often that one hears a film booed at a festival, but When We Were Big earned that dubious distinction, not to mention a lot of catcalls. "Who let that film into the festival?" "It's murder." As it turned out, the film's director, Eveline Ketterings, was in the audience when the film showed at the Galaxy Theater. She rose and defiantly faced her detractors who, by this time, were shouting things such as, "You should leave." She didn't, at least not that I could see. If When We Were Big had redeeming value, it escaped me. I'm not in favor of public booing at film festivals, but I have trouble recalling a film that struck me as any sicker. Robert Denerstein is the film critic. denersteinb@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-954-5101 http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rockymountainnews.com%2Fdrmn%2Fmovies%2Farticle%2F0%2C2792%2CDRMN_23_4977661%2C00.html
September 16, 2006Telluride WrapupFinal thoughs about Telluride 2006 by Marty Mapes When We Are Big (Als Wij Groot Zijn) Finally, I feel obligated to defend the one short that actually got booed, and that even the Rocky Mountain News critic saw no value in. When We Are Big is a dialogue-less Dutch film that depicts what, if taken literally, would be a case of infanticide. But the film is far from a literal statement. The short film begins with a ritual — father and daughter (presumably) prepare to go swimming in a pool. The pool itself is dreamlike, looking more like a flooded living room than an actual swimming pool. Once underwater, the man grabs the 6-year-old girl by the arm and sits placidly and obliviously at the bottom of the pool. The girl, playful at first, struggles to get to the surface. Before long, she has stopped struggling (although again, the performance of “drowning” is far from naturalistic). At the very end of the film, the man does a double-take and swims quickly up out of the frame. The title seems to imply that there is a fundamental difference between grownups and children. The performance of the adult actor seems to imply that grownups are largely oblivious to the world of children. The story seems to imply that the limitless potential of childhood is inevitably killed before the flat, dense life of an adult can begin. The same message is told in countless children’s stories from Jumanji to Philip Pullman’s wonderful His Dark Materials trilogy. That some in a film audience as generally sophisticated as Telluride’s would mistake a metaphorical film for some sort of literal advocacy of infanticide is a pity. I’m not even sure I particularly agreed with the message of When We Are Big. As I understand it, growing up really does, biologically, involve the death of childhood exuberance. I may have these exact facts wrong, so don’t quote me — but I believe that a child’s brain has more neural connections than an adult brain. As we figure out how things work, the unneeded connections in our brain go dark. This happens, but it is not “caused” by adults (as the film seems to assert) — nor is it a cause for shock, regret, or horror (also as the film seems to assert) — it’s simply a part of growing up, and that’s why I might not have bothered to mention this film. But to not understand a film and then to boo it shows that some adults, ironically, have probably lost a few too many neural circuits and no longer have the imagination necessary to watch a film such as When We Are Big. contact Movie Habit http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviehabit.com%2Fessays%2Ftelluride06-4.shtml
Okt 13, 2006Festival report from: Ryan Gardner Smith - Northern New Mexico Filmfestival The whole festival was great. We actually exceeded capacity on both nights and people were sitting on the ground. Your short was still the most talked about! I've been watching for any press to pass along to you, but the local paper just wrote about the turnout rather than about the films shown. After the end of "When We Are Big", the audience didn't know what to do. There was a sort of stilted applause and a quiet "boo". Later, several people commented on the movie to me. One lady, who had come specifically to see the film showing right after yours, left then the next day realized that she left before the film she wanted to see. Here's what she said in an e-mail to me: "I was very impressed by what I observed at the Las Peliculas film festival. We left just after Eveline Ketterings' film. I was very disturbed by it. I called my daughter, filmmaker Kimby Caplan, on my return home last night; and shared with her my thoughts regarding Las Peliculas in general, and more specifically, my visceral reaction to Ketterings' entry. After composing myself, I can now see "WHEN WE ARE BIG" in a more holistic light. It was extremely thought provoking and I have not been able to get it out of my mind." Some of the other comments made to me verbally were along the lines of: "It was just too real even though it was in a surreal setting" or "I would have felt better if I could have seen the girl afterwards, she was just too good of an actress" or "It was beautifully shot, but it just made me feel awful" I am so very glad we were able to show your film to the audience. I think it haunted them at the very least. Thanks so much for letting us include it in the program!
Mar 11, 2007Opinion from:
October 2006Ok, I didn't actually see this one. But I want to comment on it. Here's what happens: a little girl and an older man go to a pool. They play around for a while and have some fun. Then they decide to play the "hold your breath" game. But he doesn't let her break the surface. He hold her down while he stares in her face. She fights, but only looks confused instead of scared. Soon she dies at the hand of the man she trusted. Her little body twitches as the last bit of life leaves her. Finally, he lets her go and she floats to the top. Then he surfaces and breaths life in. What the fuck?!?! Who decides that this is a good thing to film?! Director Eveline Ketterings was booed before she was even allowed to do a Q&A at one screening. At another she was applauded only by the two rows of people that she brought in with her. I would love to know her reason for making this child snuff film. Was she trying to say, "Look what happens every day. Look at it and don't look away"? If so, this film needs an explaination. If she just thought it was a fun idea to have a little girl play dead for her on camera, then she's one sick bitch and needs to have her camera taken away from her. I guess art is there for debate. If it causes a stir then it's interesting. But it's hard to call this art. It's more like someone who decided that watching a little girl die was interesting. I wonder if she has kids or if she wants them. Too bad for those kids. So, that's it for my Festival. I didn't see quite as many as I usually do, but it was close. And a splendid time was had by all.http%3A%2F%2Fwww.profwagstaff.com%2Ftelluride06.html
Dec 24, 2008Opinion from: Wilhelmina
