Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

The last days of a swimming pool, just before the demolition. Regular visitors are isolated by mysterious encounters, nowhere to be seen in the film. We see the decline of a social meeting place unfold in sequential patterns. Without dramatic event, no music, no dialogue, this film is in relation with the `minimal` art cinema. ... A man walks through the hallways past lockers and cubicles. A boy plays in one of the lockers. A girl walks into a dressing room, opens the door, but does not enter. A boy walks past the grandstand where a young woman stares into the water. A woman swims her baby to the edge of the pool. The building is filled with sounds: water, machinery, leaking outside noise like the sound of emptiness. And old man steps off the high dive ... We come to know anything about the people we `follow` or meet. Everyone seems calm and happened to come by. It derives the film its quality as stylized documentary observation or film essay. Yet there is turmoil and tangible threat.

Bea de Visser works as a autonomous visual artist and filmmaker. She started her career in the early 1980-s; she works as a sound and performance artist in the trendy club scene and artists spaces. Today, her work is shown at international exhibitions, her movies shown at international film festivals worldwide. Bea de Visser manages to present the independent production studio Anotherfilm. In the recent past Anotherfilm has become an initiative that participates in hard to realize projects of a small group of artists and filmmakers. Since 2010 Bea de Visser works as guest advisor at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam. She is art consultant of the Collection Lievensberg in Bergen op Zoom. Occasionally she gives workshops and lectures at home and abroad in various disciplines such as film, scenario, drama, visual arts and theater design. Her films include: Mama Superfreak (2009), Roses and Fall (2006), Just a Minute Yoko (2004), The Second Memory (2004), The Barren Land (2001), Another Another (1999), A Breath Hush (1996). Besides she made music videos, films for theatre design and wrote scenarios for feature film projects.