LABYRINTH PSYCHOTICA by Jennifer Kanary
Trailer by Zoot Derks en Jeanette Groenendaal

more about the project:

Synopsis:


‘A seductive and furious film essay’, Raymond van den Boogaard, NRC handelsblad





Jeanette Groenendaal returns to a village in the Dutch Bible Belt to film a personal study of the scapegoat mechanism. A project staging tableaux performances melting frozen memories in an emotionnally charged landscape. In a series of 'visions' she reconstructs, excerpts from her childhood.This stylized flashback is more than a personal therapy session or a documentary about a fundamentalist community. It returns to the past, not out of revenge or a need to judge, but to investigate the roots of a past that is returning to the present, with the contemporary outpouring of religion, conservatism, xenophobia, and judgmental moral standards.

‘How does one group of people who think that they know the truth, what is right and wrong, how do they decide if somebody else is going to hell?’

Biography/Filmography:
Biography Jeanette Groenendaal (1964)
Lives and Works in Amsterdam
Independent Experimental filmmaker
Producer, writer, director, camera, montage, distribution

(Art) Director and Producer of http://www.G-netwerk.nl;
Art-Science productions, Video Installations, Patricipation Performances

Education: Master of Theatre DasArts, Amsterdam (2006)
Filmanalysis, Filmacademy Amsterdam
Binger Institute; Masterclass editing with Molly Stensgard
Hermetica studies, Illustere School, UvA (2010)

Initiating art collectives; PATAPOE Artporn- ZootenGenant- G-netwerk
Nominated for the Magic Hour Award, Planet Doc Review, Warsaw
supported by FilmFunds The Netherlands - FondsBKVB- AFK, De Brakke Grond
distributed by; G-netwerk/ EYE (NL)/ Against Gravity (PL)/ INCUBATOR

Artist's Website: http://www.G-netwerk.nl

Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill - Heart of Hawick
Screening date: Friday 26th October and Sunday 28th October
Screening time: 1.00pm (Fri) and 1.40pm (Sun)
Tickets: £4 (for the Screening Room,

A la edad de siete años, la directora Jeanette
Groenendaal se trasladó a un pueblo
profundamente religioso. Era la década de 1970,
y la llegada de la muchacha de la ciudad provocó
temor en los corazones de los habitantes de la
pequeña aldea. Se la veía como un “extranjero” y
“puta de la ciudad”, y se le trato de acuerdo a ello.
Un maestro de su estricta escuela calvinista la
llamó “hija del diablo” y toda la clase repitió sus
palabras. Treinta y ocho años después, Groenendaal
regresa al pueblo para Filmar un estudio personal
del mecanismo del “chivo expiatorio”.

Siðaskipti Reformation Jeanette Groenendaal Flokkur: Heimildarmyndir Niðurlönd , 2011
82 min
Kaupa miða

“Hvernig fer hópur fólks að ákveða hverjir fara til helvítis,” er spurt í mynd sem er byggð á þeirri kynferðislegu misnotkun sem leikstjórinn varð fyrir í Biblíubelti Hollands. Ljóðræna og samlíkingar segja frá áfalli sem ekki er hægt að lýsa með orðum. Par dansar tangó og fellur í innileg faðmlög fyrir framan hóp þorpsbarna. Bóndi gerir grín að þeim sem hafa haft mök við húsdýr. Nautnafull náttúra er byggð konum sem leita huggunar í landslaginu.

Um leikstjórann Groenendaal lærði leikhúsfræði í listaháskólanum í Amsterdam. Hún hefur tekið þátt í fjöldamörgum margmiðlunarverkefnum, myndbandsverkum og viðburðum. Hún fæst gjarnan við tilraunakennda kvikmyndagerð, og blandar saman aðferðum heimildamyndagerðamanna og aðgerðarsinna. Kvikmynd hennar Hollensk kókaínverksmiðja var frumsýnd á kvikmyndahátíðinni í Amsterdam árið 2007. Þetta er önnur mynd hennar í fullri lengd.


REFORMATION

“How does a group of people decide if somebody is going to hell?” asks a film based on the sexual abuse the director suffered in a Dutch village in her youth. Lyricism and metaphor describe a trauma that words cannot. A couple dances tango before tumbling into an erotic clinch before the village children. A farmer jokes about people he knows who have sex with animals. A ‘lusty’ nature is populated by women drawing comfort from the landscape.

About the director Groenendaal studied theatre at the Amsterdam School of Arts. She is the author and co-author of many multimedia projects, video installations and performances. She often works with experimental methods of filmmaking, mixing documentary and activist performance. Her film Dutch Cocaine Factory premiered at the IDFA festival in her hometown in 2007. This is her second full-length film.



29.9.2012 - 20:00 Bíó Paradís Q&A

30.9.2012 - 16:00 Norræna Húsið

3.10.2012 - 14:00 Bíó Paradís 1 Q&A

5.10.2012 - 16:15 Bíó Paradís 3

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