LOVERS ANDS CAMERAS

Original Dutch version: INTIEM EN ANONIEM

2021 / 19 minutes / Experimental documentary

Collaboration with: Krista Smulders

What actually makes a romantic relationship so worthwhile: Is it familiarity, or excitement? Is it safety or the freedom to be completely yourself? Michiel and his girlfriend and fellow artist Krista made an online call to young couples in love to sign up for a film about the messy sides of love. For weeks, a couple was followed during all their daily activities, in order to capture the relationship in all its facets.

Erotic scenes and odes to love are juxtaposed with silent meals and ritualistic quarrels. What began as a disarming portrait of a couple in love, slowly became for Michiel and Krista a confrontational mirror for their own relationship. Besides a lot of struggling, this resulted in a touching, funny and absurd documentary.