Marleen van der Werf

Cinematographic essay on transience and loss, in which the maker visually expresses her perception of a mourning process. The natural environment, once so familiar to her, has turned into a twisted twilight zone.

A poetic blend of fiction and found footage from the 1960s and 1970s. Two girls grow up along a European border. Slowly, they are driven apart and experience what it means to be separated by borders.

Time and tide is a cinematic essay on the stilling of nature. Film maker Marleen van der Werf closely observes the pace of the ever-changing coast. Following the tides of the wind, her camera slowly encounters the void of stillness. The natural scenery evolves into a simile for an emotional landscape.

Cinematographic essay on transience and loss, in which the maker visually expresses her perception of a mourning process. The natural environment, once so familiar to her, has turned into a twisted twilight zone.

A poetic blend of fiction and found footage from the 1960s and 1970s. Two girls grow up along a European border. Slowly, they are driven apart and experience what it means to be separated by borders.

Time and tide is a cinematic essay on the stilling of nature. Film maker Marleen van der Werf closely observes the pace of the ever-changing coast. Following the tides of the wind, her camera slowly encounters the void of stillness. The natural scenery evolves into a simile for an emotional landscape.