A Sea Change (Nina de Vroome, 2016)
A Sea Change
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A Sea Change (Nina de Vroome, 2016)
Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
61'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78

A Sea Change revolves around K.W. IBIS, a maritime boarding school in Ostend (Belgium). In the buildings that look out towards the sea, boys from six to sixteen sleep, eat and play. They learn how to read the sea, sail with a fishing boat and help haul in the catch. While the fishermen are at work, the pupils observe the by-catch and gaze at the swaying horizon. In the classrooms, the impetuous sea is captured in maps. On sea maps, there are no storms and there is no time. But nonetheless, the sea is capricious and silently changing. The coast is permeated with nostalgia, as if the sea had turned its face to the past. The fishing fleet will disappear, together with many endangered species of fish. The fish auction hall of Ostend is in decay, the harbour coated in rust. Nonetheless, a new colour is appearing from underneath the peeling paint.
 

“In A Sea Change, although the sea seems to have been “mastered” and plundered with everything that technology has to offer, the life of these boys is told to us with old-fashioned charm. Their games with torches in the dark- ness of silent dormitories, the aquatic choreographies suddenly appearing at sea and the starched costumes of the young sea cadets send us back to other times with nostalgia. At times, the film itself, behind its very contemporary appearances of images of the sea filled with formal findings, plays with the traditional and now dated aspects of the documentary form. Immersed in the day-to-day life of the children, whose future is traced out on digital nautical charts and tracked via sonar, we thus revive the imagination this troubling enormity holds beneath its waves.”

Madeline Robert

Language
Taal
Langue
Dutch
Subtitles
Ondertitels
Sous-titres
Dutch, English, French
Available
Beschikbaar
Disponible
Worldwide
Duration
Duur
Durée
61'
Aspect Ratio
Beeldverhouding
Format d'image
1.78
A Film by
Een film van
Un film de
Image
Beeld
Image
Nina de Vroome
Sound
Geluid
Son
Ruben Desiere, Liesbeth Beeckman, Hannes Verhoustraete, Yves Sondermeider, Chloë Delanghe, Mathijs Poppe
Producer
Producent
Producteur
Lotte Van Craeynest, Sieber Marly
Editing
Montage
Montage
Nina de Vroome, Sebastien Demeffe
Music
Muziek
Musique
De Beren Gieren
Sound Editing
Klankmontage
Montage Son
Sabrina Calmels
Sound Mix
Klankmix
Mixage son
Rémi Gerard
Production
Productie
Production
SIEBER
Co-production
Coproductie
Coproduction
Atelier Graphoui
With the Support of
Met de steun van
Avec le soutien de
Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Beursschouwburg, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen