Sky Over Holland
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sky Over Holland |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Fernhout |
| script | Simon Koster |
| production |
Douwes Fernhout John Fernhout |
| music | Robert Heppener |
| camera |
Robert Gaffney Douwes Fernhout |
Sky Over Holland is a 1967 Dutch short film directed by John Fernhout .
action
The film shows the Netherlands with shots from the air, on land and on water, panning repeatedly to the cloud formations in the sky. You can see the canals and a carillon, the cattle, flower and cheese market, windmills and boats as well as winter sports with ice skaters and ice sailing . This is followed by recordings of a church visit, the fishermen at sea, the port and air traffic as well as the Netherlands in autumn. Images of handicrafts such as glass blowing are shown, as well as the production of postage stamps with the motif of the queen. This is followed by aerial photographs of flower fields, which bring colored patterns into the landscape, as well as pictures of the hustle and bustle.
production
Sky Over Holland was created for the Dutch pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal , where it was shown on a 20-meter screen. The recordings were made with an MCS 70mm , a 70mm panorama camera.
Paintings by well-known Dutch painters are woven into the documentary footage of the film, so the following works can be seen in the film:
- Johannes Vermeer : View of Delft (1660)
- Jacob van Ruysdael : View of Haarlem (1670)
- Rembrandt van Rijn : The Stone Bridge (1638)
- Hendrick Avercamp : Winter Landscape with Skaters (1608)
- Jan Steen : As the old (sang), so (whistle) the young (1665)
- Pieter Saenredam : Cunerakerk, Rhenen (1655)
- Jan Porcellis : Schipbreuk voor de kust (1631)
- Johan Barthold Jongkind : Rotterdam (1856)
- Vincent van Gogh : Autumn Landscape (1885)
- Vincent van Gogh: Knotwilgen bij zonsondergang (1888)
- Vincent van Gogh: Street with Cypress and Star (1890)
- Vincent van Gogh: Olijfboomgaard (1889)
- Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889)
- Piet Mondrian : Composition No. II (1913)
- Piet Mondrian: Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1927)
The film was shown at Expo 67 in April 1967. It was also shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1967 and at the Berlinale in 2009 .
Awards
Sky Over Holland won in 1967 in Cannes, the Palme d'Or as Best Short Film and was awarded the Prix de la Commission Supérieure Technique. It was also nominated in 1968 for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category, but lost to A Place to Stand , which was also shot for Expo 67.
Web links
- Sky Over Holland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Sky Over Holland on beeldengeluid.nl ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Robert Gaffney: Footnotes To The Production Of "Motion" And "Sky Over Holland" ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . in70mm.com, August 1967.
