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Director's Statement
A child playing dead: a fraught and yet relatable scene. It is an innocent attempt to provoke reaction, to see how credibly one can pretend and to test the limits of one’s own physicality. Indeed, it’s a way to gain understanding of the fragile human body. As the most passive of games, this is the first encounter with mortality. What does it mean not to breathe, not to be alive?
It is this simple scene that sparked the idea for a short film. With ZONDER MEER I wanted to make a film in which a tragedy unfolds in the margins, even out of frame. By witnessing a drama through the eyes of a child, I would like to give the viewers an opportunity to experience it through the perception of someone who does not yet understand it in a dramatic way.
Shot in between two lockdowns, we were challenged with a lot of restrictions. But restrictions often gift a great deal of liberty. By making straightforward narrative and formalistic choices, I aim to create a space for the viewer to wander.