short film ‘Moving Pictures three, Diabolo’

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Moving Pictures three, Diabolo

super16mm film | 10 minutes |fiction

filmstill: Wilfried de Jong and Madelief Blanken

A quiet hollow in the dunes on a hot summer day. A bald man tries to teach a girl the noble art of the diabolo. This man, despite his good intentions, turns out to be a powerless tyrant. The innocent girl is not easily daunted and liberates the contorted man from his perilous position.


direction and script: Carina Ellemers
cast: Wilfried de Jong and Madelief Blanken
camera: Sander Snoep
sound: Sander den Broeder
editing: Barbara Hin (†) and Carina Ellemers
production: Carina Ellemers (for Stichting Benina)

premiere IFFR |various international film festivals