Zusje
Robert Jan Westdijk
"Lady of the lake" (Robert Montgomery, 1947) was until today a unique film in its genre. This film was entirely made using the principle of subjective vision, the camera taking the place of the main character. This adaptation of a Chandler novel is now no longer the sole example of this style, the cinema has to make room for a newcomer : Zusje. The day before her twentieth birthday, Daantje, an art history student, sees her brother Martin, who has been in exile abroad for several years, arrive. He has a video camera with him from which he refuses to be separated. She is initially won over, but Daantje soon sees that the eye of the camera and that of her brother represent a perverse threatening obsession. "Zusje" corresponds to a sort of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" in the land of tulips and windmills. A free film, without any complexes about the language of the cinema. With this very Warholian treatment, Robert Jan Westdijk give us a film which is playful and disturbing as a child's drawing.
With : Kim van Kooten, Hugo Metsers III, Roeland Fernhout, Ganna Veenhuysen
Screenplay : Robert Jan Westdijk et Jos Driessen
Image : Bert Pot
Sound : Mark Wessner
Editing : Herman P. Koerts
Screenplay : Robert Jan Westdijk et Jos Driessen
Image : Bert Pot
Sound : Mark Wessner
Editing : Herman P. Koerts
Production : Grote Broer Filmwerken, Koestraat 15F, 1012 BW Amsterdam, TEL : (31 20) 622 47 05, FAX : (31 20) 616 18 79
Robert Jan Westdijk was born in 1964. He studied at the Dutch Film Academy before working as a freelance screenwriter, director, and editor for the television. In 1989 he made his first short, "Red Lens", which was selected for the Festival of Valence and Berlin. His first feature, "Zusje", won the best film of the year at the Dutch Cinema Festival (September 1995). He is currently working on his second feature.