Menno Westendorp

참여 작품

The Return of the Honey Buzzard
Director of Photography
With his familial bookshop on the verge of bankruptcy, Simon finds himself retreating more and more to his cabin in the woods. After witnessing the suicide of a stranger, a childhood trauma involving his bullied best friend resurfaces and he withdraws even further into the past, estranging himself from his wife and his responsibilities. The only glimmer of hope is a young girl who needs help with her book review. But there is more to the girl than there seems to be.
Ja, Ik Wil!
Director of Photography
Roos is pretty, successful and in her early-thirties. Every time she dreams of marriage, she gets dumped. When she gets invites to weddings from people all around her, she takes her young intern Daan as her date. She puts herself in awkward situations en falls deeply in love with a handsome doctor. They say one marriage leads to the other, but is he the one she'll say "Yes, I do!" to?
Confetti Harvest
Cinematography
The young Katelijne grows up in a strict Protestant peasant family. As the only girl between six brothers, she is hardly involved in farm work and is excluded from daily conversations. Hereby she lets her imagination run free by surrendering to Biblical stories, gossip and even fairy tales, although she is not allowed to read them. During her brother's wedding, however, she overwhelms her family with literature, saying goodbye to her childhood.
안녕, 헤이즐
Camera Operator
산소통을 캐리어처럼 끌고 호흡기를 생명줄처럼 차고 있는 헤이즐. 집에 틀어박혀 리얼리티 쇼나 보며 하루를 축내는 자신을 걱정하는 가족에게 등 떠밀려 어쩔 수 없이 참석한 암 환자 모임에서 꽃미소가 매력적인 어거스터스를 만난다. 담배를 입에 물었지만 불은 붙이지 않는 ‘상징적인 행동’으로 헤이즐의 맹비난을 재치있게 받아넘긴 어거스터스는 시크하고 우울증마저 겪는 헤이즐을 두근거리게 만든다. 두 사람은 소설책을 나눠 읽으며 급속도로 가까워지고, 어거스터스는 헤이즐이 그토록 좋아하는 네덜란드의 작가를 만나게 해주기 위해 ‘지니의 소원’을 빌어 암스테르담 여행을 제안한다. 가족과 주변의 걱정과 만류에도 불구하고 생애 처음으로 여행길에 오른 두 사람. 자신을 시한폭탄이라 생각하고 사랑하는 것들 과 선을 그었던 그녀와, 거절당할까 두려워 진실을 감춰왔던 어거스터스는 서로에게 속마음을 털어놓기 시작하는데... 예측불허 이들의 사랑은 어떻게 될까?
Majesty
Director of Photography
One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, Beatrix goes back in time, and remembers her banishment to Canada, the visit to the victims of the Flood disaster and the turbulence suffered by her parents at Palace Soestdijk during the Hofman case.
In Real Life
Cinematography
In his new film a young director puts his girlfriend through a love test. By doing so he risks his real life relationship with her.
The South
Cinematography
Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.
Ford Transit
Cinematography
The movie follows Rajai, a Ford Transit driver which is the most popular transportation in the Palestinian occupied territories (occupied by Israel). While taking a ride with Rajai, we experience the frustrating situation the Palestinian need to deal with. On our trips from the roadblock in Ramallah to the roadblock in Jerusalem, we get to hear analysis of the situation by all kinds of random transporters, people from different religions, origins, and levels of class.
AmnesiA
Director of Photography
Alex, a 28 year-old photographer, is no longer able to photograph people, for some mysterious reason. Every time he focuses his camera on someone, the same woman appears in his viewfinder - an image he cannot bear. When his brother Aram, whom he has not seen or spoke to for years, unexpectedly phones him and asks him to come to their parental home because their mother is severely ill and may not have long to live, he panics. The thought of a confrontation with the area where he grew up and the renewed encounter with his family makes him feel nervous. Nevertheless, that evening he leaves for AmnesiA: the estate of his parents, the spot where he spent his youth.
Ochtendzwemmers
Director of Photography
Each morning a group of people meet in the swimming pool to swim. The police suspects it is a criminal organization and interrogate Loes.
Suzy Q
Director of Photography
A weekend in the life of a bizarre family in the sixties. Their lives will never be the same after it.
De Orde Der Dingen
Cinematography
The Baby and the Cargo Bike
Director of Photography
A social comedy about troubled relations between mothers and sons. Every day, rag-and-bone man Willem Slootkant takes his cargo bike to go out and look for usable waste in other people's garbage. One day, to his surprise, he finds a baby. Slootkant takes the baby to his mother, who happens to desperately want a grandchild from her unmarried son. They both assume that the child was a junkie's, but when Child Protection is alerted, it turns out the baby has very decent parents. The baby's older brother, meanwhile, feels neglected because of all the panic over the little one.