GRAND PRIX IMAGES extra info and content.
Research for The Garden. A garden growing like the endless story because it is a mythical one, one that moves. A bit like a forest. A forest in conversation. We see green, it sees individuals. We want to connect, and guess what it wants and needs. But all in all, we need it and it needs to get rid of us.
Test images for the wallpaper that maybe needs to filmed with actors playing different roles trying to become trees which is funnily enough the cliche order at actor/theater schools
Synopsis of the photonovel and movie Flipping The Bird:
‘Flipping the Bird’ is the narrative visual report, a photo novel actually, of a long and intensive walk in the dunes, in which the main character tries to reconnect with nature. During this walk he slowly falls in love with the landscape, the flora and the fauna and he thinks that this love is mutual. A special, surreal, humorous and confrontational dialogue is created between people, flora and fauna. At the climax the main character finds out if the love is reciprocal and chooses his path...
The story is set in the dunes in connection with the continuous threat of the sea to my country. Human actions and the choices we make now and in the future are of great importance in this regard. Jaap Scheeren: “I started out walking and photographing in the woods and later the dunes and found the ultimate urgency to make this walking a project in The flooding Disaster of 1953, especially when I came across the book of the same name in my grandfather’s bookcase. A disaster that seems far away, but which I want to settle in the collective memory to prevent a repetition. For me, this story was the key moment to continue this project.”
216 p, ills colour, 13,5 x 20,5 cm, pb, English and Dutch version
MY YOUTH (14-19 years old)
Oma Toos & OPA OPA
my parents' parents
My Chosen Parents
