New Age 2007
New Age 2007
SUPER 16 FILM TRANSFERRED TO BETACAM SP, 16:9, COLOUR, STEREO, 75 MINUTES
THE NETHERLANDS, DUTCH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / PRODUCER JAN WILLEM VAN DAM / CINEMATOGRAPHER: BENITO STRANGIO / SOUND NICO BUNNIK / CAST: DAISY BREMMER, EVA VAN GINHOVEN, DAPHNE VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, KATELYN BRAND, KIM SCHONEWILLE, ERNST WALGENBACH, NINA BOAS AND MARTIJN DANE / PRODUCTION CO: FILMSTAD AMSTERDAM / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ELISABETH KAUFMANN ZÜRICH
Artist, filmmaker and novelist Keren Cytter’s works have largely developed from ‘low-tech’ filmic explorations, whereby friends play characters in the artist’s productions, or language and repetition undermine traditional filmmaking to show states of tension and absurdity. New Age is a self-referential film that shows protagonist ‘Daphne’ as a mutable yet consistent identity (different actors take turns to play the role) who cycles through waiting, hitching rides in cars, talking with friends, and being bored at home. The film hinges on notions of fate, positioning belief systems in a vulnerable net and examining concepts such as the power of suggestion and self-fulfilling prophecy. ‘The things that happen to the characters affect them with the emotional force of something they saw on television or found out about on the net. It is in this sense that the emotional and psychological filmic constructed world is aware of itself as an artifice, as filmic narrative.’
Contact: Sun 11 Oct 1.00pm / Cinema A
Phone: Keren CYTTER
b. 1977 Tel Aviv, Israel
Lives in Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
