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During Dutch Dance Week, various arthouse cinemas around the Netherlands will screen a retrospective of filmmaker Clara van Gool. The films to be screened include the following:
Between 2 Houses (42 min., 2006, Viewpoint Productions) -- A couple's relationship is put to the test when a stranger moves into the apartment of the absent neighbors next door. Between 2 Houses is about the conflict between what you see and what you think you see, or would like to see. An intense, physical film about bouncing back and forth between routine and sensation, between the familiar and the strange.
Reimerswaal (8 min., 2004, SNG Film) -- The poem "Reimerswaal" by Gerrit Achterberg is the point of departure for this film about a passionate crime: a young man and woman dance a doomed duet underwater.
Nussin (15 min., 1998, Egmond Film / NPS) -- A party in an apartment complex leads to nocturnal rambles at the foot of a coal mine. Nussin was inspired by the dance performance "Ocho," and the dancers did the choreography themselves. The film won awards at home and abroad, including a Dutch Golden Calf in 1998.
Bitings and Other Effects (30 min.,1995, Bergen Film / NPS) -- Van Gool and choreographer Angelika Oei were inspired by the southern-Italian Tarantella dance, named after the deadly spider of the same name. With an Italian villa in Renaissance style and the chaotic sounds of Palermo as its backdrop, the film shows what happens after the dancers are bitten by the spider: they are overcome by pain and an untiring urge to dance. Bitings and Other Effects won the Golden Calf in 1995.
