Mirror of Holland

Mirror of Holland (1950)

Spiegel van Holland

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

Date of release
1950-05-14
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (26)
Runtime
9m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Bert Haanstra

Interesting facts

Mirror of Holland is a 1950 short Dutch documentary film about The Netherlands, directed by Bert Haanstra. It was Haanstra's first success abroad and won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

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