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▶ Full film · 15′57″2016Joost de Vries. Photograph from the shoot.

201615 minPortrait, episode of a series

Joost de Vries

The portrait of Joost de Vries looks into his world of thought, his fascinations and his urge to know everything about a subject, against the relativism and cynicism of the writers before him. An interview films him, literally, from every side; his words follow the images of a train journey, and sometimes run against them. Writer and filmmaker meet in an anonymous, timeless carriage, while landscapes, chance stopovers, un-Dutch architecture and passers-by glide past.

Photographs

A man in a dark suit on a chair, seen from above, holding two books, papers on his knee, in a dark studio
2016Belgium, Brussels, LUCA School of Arts, studio
In a dark studio, a sound recordist holds a boom microphone over a man seated in a suit, a cameraman bent over the camera on the right, two lamps
2016Belgium, Brussels, LUCA School of Arts, studio
A man in a suit looks out of a train window as a yellow train passes
2016Latvia
A man in a suit in front of a modern building with glass walls and an exhibition banner
2016Latvia, Jūrmala, Dubulti station
In a birch wood, a cameraman at a camera on a tripod and a sound recordist holding a boom microphone with a windshield
2016Latvia, Emmanuel Agyapong and Samuel (Sambo) Chan
Seen past a man's shoulder, a woman in a red flowered shawl on the steps of an old wooden house, a cameraman and a sound recordist in front of her
2016Latvia, Raisa Kopiļenko
Two guitarists play on a wooden platform beside an old house, a woman in a red shawl stands before them, a sound recordist holds the boom, a reflector in front
2016Latvia, Raisa Kopiļenko
A woman in a red flowered shawl in front of an old wooden house, two guitarists playing behind her
2016Latvia, Raisa Kopiļenko
Portrait of a man in a dark blue jacket and white shirt in front of a green conifer
2016Latvia

Technical sheet

Title
Joost de Vries
Year
2016
Runtime
15 min
Countries
Netherlands
Availability
In Rob's archive; ask whether it can be shown
Script and direction
Rob Rombout
Editing
Nina Haditalab
Image
Emmanuel Agyapong
Sound
Samuel (Sambo) Chan
Colour grading
Nick Fortemps
Sound editing and mix
Raf Ferlin
Music
Ame Roma; Artūrs, Raisa & Rino Kopiļenko