VERBEELDING 2 (2015) – EVA PLOMPEN

Still from experimental film Verbeelding 2. It's a close-up focused on a bed of pink and white roses with a head of a girl laying on top of it. The girl is almost out of frame and the neck is exposed.

Still from experimental film Verbeelding 2. The girl is in a dark lit room, about to put a noose around her neck.

Still from experimental film Verbeelding 2. It is another close up from the bed of flowers, but this time focused on the girl's midrif. Multiple sets of hands, seemingly coming from inside the bed, are caressing her.

2″54 – no dialogue

Verbeelding 2 is an experimental short scene, made as an assignment in my first year at the Netherlands Film Academy. We had to make a very short scene inspired by the movie Tideland, directed by Terry Gilliam. The rules were: no shooting on location and use a considerably amount of VFX and production design (scale models).

The one element of interest we took from Tideland was the idea of a blissful death. Hoping to escape a difficult life by fleeting from it in the most permanent way there is.

CAST

Ghislaine Verkerk

CREW

Directors: Max Baggerman & Edson da Conceicao
Producer: Tessel Jonkers
Cinematography: Edson da Conceicao
Production Design: Annika Lelieveld
Editing: Eva Plompen
Concept: Elvira Porcedda
Sound Design: Dennis Sanders
Visual Effects: Laurens Vermeulen & Janneke van der Wel
Because it was such a group effort, everyone helped where they could. The credit listed is their main department.