Producer
A heroin-addicted artist (Thom Hoffman) hugs his self-imposed isolation. While he was in an empty factory to painting, he heroin syringe. He dreams that he is like an eagle above the people flies out. When his mother becomes disabled after a failed suicide attempt, she asks him. He is looking for her for the first time in twelve years again. Together they take a radical decision.
Director
Documentary filmmaker Jan Vrijman pieces together four portraits of exceptional — and eccentric — Dutchmen, offering a vision of the Netherlands in the 1960s like you’ve never seen before. The result is both endearing, moving, astonishing and hilarious.
Director
Documentary about the work and the unconventional approach of the painter Karel Appel. The film shows him flinging vast amounts of paint onto the canvas, resulting in dynamic paintings showing an overful, raging, run-away world. In 1962 awarded with a Golden Bear at the Berlinale. (filmcommission.nl)
