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2006-07, triptych film, S16mm transferred to HD, 12'30", single shot, stereo, no dialogue
Images above: 2023, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL) and 2011, 42–24h Off Screen, Fuoricampo Gallery, Siena (IT)
In the cinematic triptych ‘Rain, Sugar, Eye’, thoughts are captured and made visible. In each part, the camera moves in one continuous shot from a wide view to an extreme close-up, while the characters fixate on everyday details such as raindrops sliding down a car window, a handful of sugar and smoke, or the gaze of a lover. Literally perceiving another world within these details leads to a fundamental shift in the characters’ experience of reality.
Through this intense focus, the familiar transforms into emotional and imaginary landscapes. A raindrop reveals a constantly shifting, distorted, and inverted world, a handful of sugar turns with a single breath into a smoking crystalline mountain landscape, and the perspective of a young man in love becomes visible in the reflection of his iris.
In ‘Rain, Sugar, Eye’, I explore how the familiar, through subtle shifts in perspective, scale, and continuity, transforms into another reality in which the everyday becomes strange and meaningful. The climax of the triptych lies in extreme close-ups that gradually reveal themselves as wide shots: a zoom-in that paradoxically also becomes a zoom-out.
The triptych shows how our inner emotional world continuously shapes and transforms reality.
CAST & CREW
Concept & Direction
Yasmijn Karhof
Actress
Gonny Gaakeer
Camera
Stijn van Santen
Focus puller
Pim Tjureman
Grip
Cees Aloserij
First assistant
Janneke van Heesch
Post production
Dusi / Joris Schenk
Technical advise
Tungsten Studio
Driver
Merel Karhof
Still photographer
Sjoerd van Oevelen
Assistant
Barbara Otten
'Sugar'
Smoking girl
Yasmijn Karhof
Camera
Stijn van Santen
Focus puller
Lonneke Worm
First assistant
Janneke van Heesch
Grip
Meiro Koizumi
Driver
Merel Karhof
'Eye'
Actor
Dragan Bakema
Actress
Paméla Menzo
Camera
Benito Strangio
Focus puller
Pim Tjureman
Grip
Arjen Oosterbaan
First assistant
Merel Karhof
Second Assistant
Sjoerd van Oevelen
Sound
Melcher Meirmans
Technical advise
Stijn van Santen
Mastering
Hein Sassen
With special thanks to
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Holland Equipment
Valkieser Capital Images
Kodak Nederland
Tungsten Studio
And thanks to
Singel film, Cineco, Condor, REC sound, EFF, Cam-a-lot, Jasper van den Brink, Martin Grootenboer, Stijn van Santen, Janneke van Heesch, Merel Karhof, Frits & Gea Karhof, Stefan Kuderna, Roy Taylor, Kees Reedijk, Isaac Carlos, Pieter Kemink, Wim Janssen, Mark de Cloe, Narda Alvarado, Eylem Aladogan, Gal Kinan, Tomoko Kawachi, Peggy Franck, Stefananos Tsivopoulos, Alon Levin
This film is made possible by
The Netherlands Film Fund
© Yasmijn Karhof, 2007
RAIN
In ‘Rain’ a woman gazes at raindrops sliding down a car window like tears. As she fixes her gaze on a single drop, a distorted and inverted world unfolds, fundamentally altering her perception of reality.
'Rain' production still
SUGAR
In ‘Sugar’ everyday elements such as a handful of sugar, smoke, and the view from a window undergo a metamorphosis into a shimmering crystalline mountain landscape with clouds drifting by.
'Sugar' production still
EYE
In ‘Eye’ a man and a woman look at each other so intensely that their longing for symbiosis reveals both intimacy and an unbridgeable distance at the same time.
2006-07, triptych film, 12’30" min., single shot, S16mm film, stereo, no dialogue
