Leven met je ogen
Ramón Gieling / NL, 1997 / 55 min.
In 1997 Johan van der Keuken made To Sang Fotostudio, a short film about the Chinese photographer To Sang, who at the time had been running a studio on Amsterdam’s Albert Cuypstraat for twenty years. Ramón Gieling in turn made a long documentary on the making of van der Keuken’s film. He puts paid to the romantic idea that a documentary maker somehow manages to capture life spontaneously.

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Director
Ramón Gieling
Production year
1997
Country
NL
Original title
Leven met je ogen
Length
55 min.
Language
German, French, English, Dutch
Subtitles
NLD
Format
16mm, DCP
Part of
Ramón Gieling at Work
Filmmaker, writer, theatre-maker, visual artist: in every role Ramón Gieling wants to get to the bottom of things and see what drives people. The maker of En un momento dado, an extraordinary film about Johan Cruyff’s years in Barcelona, and Erbarme dich (St Matthew Passion), likes to explore the boundary between reality and imagination.

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