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IN FLOW OF WORDS

Eliane Esther Bots
The Netherlands
22 min.

There are rare cases when the lack of intervention could save lives. The protagonists of this film have to detach from their human empathy day by day, when they are asked to mediate between victim and aggressor. The interpreters can’t step into any of the sides, can’t walk into their shoes, and this dissolving task often festers wounds.

A wholly blue screen and a neutral voice announce: “I am you. Your thoughts are my thoughts”. However, this dissolution is not connected to human empathy, but, quite the contrary, is stepping into mimetism/abstraction. They are interpreters of the International Criminal Tribune for the Former Yugoslavia; none of them affords blinking or showing emotion, they are vessels of truth, alienating any judgement they can have. Eliane Esther Bots sees her protagonists in dark rooms, vacant hotel rooms, rarely looking into the camera. They are children of the former Yugoslavia, obliged to listen to the endless confessions of homicides of kids and grandfathers, a bullet that luckily didn’t hit their heads. (Georgiana Mușat)

 

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ELIANE ESTHER BOTS

Eliane Esther Bots graduated from the University of the Arts Utrecht in 2008. She participated in the post-graduate program ‘Document and contemporary art’ at École Européenne Supérieure de l’image in 2012. In 2016 she graduated cum laude from the Master of Film at the Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her films have been screened and exhibited at international festivals such as IDFA, Berlinale, Cinema du Reel, New York Film Festival. She has been programming for the Go Short Film festival, Nijmegen, and works currently as a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Utrecht.

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LENGHT: 22 min.

YEAR: 2021

PRODUCTION COUNTRY: The Netherlands

DIRECTOR: Eliane Esther Bots

CAST: Alma Imamovic, Besmir Fadhic,  Nenad Popovic Pops

SCRIPTWRITING: Eliane Esther Bots

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Daniel Donato

SOUND DESIGN: Sergio Gonzalez Cuervo

 

 

 

PRODUCTION: Manon Bovenkerk – Near/by Film

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