sunday june 10 | 13.00 hrs | world premiere

De Schattenberg
A journey through time departing from the observatory at ‘Treasure Mountain’, once the location of the notorious transit camp Westerbork. The filmmaker’s mother found temporary shelter in the huts in 1950, after surviving two wars in Indonesia. In that year the place was still in its old state: barbed wire, huts, guard towers and a gate. Only the name had changed. By the use of new media techniques, historic 35 mm film material from the colonial era appears like a fata morgana in the Dutch landscape today. Featuring the telescopes on the deserted camp grounds as metaphorical time machines, we travel with the filmmaker, her mother, and two Indo-European families on their quest for long-gone events in time and space.

Monique Verhoeckx (The Netherlands) | The Netherlands | 2006 | 80 min | English subtitles

director: Monique Verhoeckx
camera: Gregor Meerman
sound: Erik Langhout
editor: Barbara Hin
producer: Fransjoris de Graaf

contact: Fransjoris de Graaf (Studio Mekaniek)
t: +31 20 6271045
e: mekaniek@hetnet.nl
w: www.studiomekaniek.nl

After graduating in Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam, filmmaker and visual artist Monique Verhoeckx (Delft, the Netherlands, 1963) worked as director of short television documentaries on the interaction between people from different cultures. In her recent works she combines new media with film. This has been expressed in, for instance, multimedia projects with scientists, composers and performing musicians. The installations and films can be seen at several locations and festivals. ‘Treasure Mountain’ is her first feature documentary film and in this the filmmaker combines her various approaches in order to explore some aspects of her Asian European background.