(het is de schraapzucht, gentlemen!)
single play, 47', video, colour
triptych after short animal stories by anton koolhaas, featuring a musing
sheep, frolicsome pigs and a wise old gentleman seagull.
script: annette apon based on three short stories by anton koolhaas
photography: annemarie borsboom
editing: dorith vinken
music: harry de wit
producer: stienette bosklopper for circe films www.circe.nl
co-producer nps televisie
Three stories, that Apon has stylishly adapted to the screen, with cinematic
sensitivity and with due respect for the language of the master. The
protagonists are gallant, lucid animals, that were filmed with hardly any
manipulation in their natural habitat. Apon chose images that seamlessly
fit in with the text and that display a shrewd pick of cinematographic points
of view and frames. They are fine, somewhat dreamy images, of a meadow
in the evening sun, a harbour front in the twilight or a pigpen in warm
yellow light. (De Volkskrant)
Annette Apon has used documentary images to make a fascinating triptych.
Superb are also the voices that the animals are endowed with. The most
exquisite is the voice that, the by now late, Ton Lensink lent to the old and
forgetful seagull named Tractaal. (NCRV-Gids)
more cows many more cows