‘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,