Mirror of Holland

Directed by Bert Haanstra

Produced by Forum Film

A poetic, visually experimental documentary that transforms familiar Dutch waterscapes through optical distortion into meditative, dreamlike reflections on landscape and memory.

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.