Below are Jeroen’s SELECTS:
As a Martin Scorsese and Van Morrison fan this clip always gives me chills. It reminds me of celebrating each other’s work and achievements in life, and how important friendship is.
The film that sparked my interest in cinema. The idea that they stopped every scene to do another take and let the whole cast sing this Aimee Mann song. We need to bring this back.
The way he shoots his dialogue in just one shot, looking at the back of one character, is so smart and strong. I also love the inclusion of a photographer and the use of real photographs. One of his best films.
Everyone should watch this film. It’s one of the best anthropological films ever made about the Netherlands. They shot over a year of footage across the whole of Holland. There are a lot of visual rhymes, something that’s done a lot these days, but it feels like he was one of the first to do it. Later he also worked with Jacques Tati on the film Trafic, and you can really see their similarities.
A commercial with just four shots. That’s the goal: to tell a story and give the audience an emotion without over explaining anything.
I love this film and the freedom they had to make it. Sometimes I feel you need that kind of freedom to make anything good.
This is commercial filmmaking at its finest. It feels like it’s cut from a longer existing film. That’s also how I like to make my work. Not even talking about the depth of the production design, the spot-on casting, the voice-over, the edit and the top-tier cinematography. 10/10.
The way he uses the landscape as a character, showing how influential the seasons are in Iceland. It’s also a film about time and grief. For me, those are such big parts of life, and that’s why it speaks to me.
A film about making a film. The making-of is the film itself. I love how this feels like a style that’s coming back and becoming popular again with filmmakers like Nathan Fielder.
