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A Journey to Tarakan Screenings: |
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Filmmaker Karel Doing follows the
steps of his uncle Ed Huis in't Veld. In 1942 his uncle was executed by
the Japanese occupation army during one of the first battles in the former
Dutch-Indies. Sixtythree years later Doing searches for remains, keeping
a diary in spoken word, sound and Super8 images. He visits the harbours
were the mailships stopped on their way to the Dutch-Indies (Amsterdam,
Genova, Port-Said, Colombo). He films in Jakarta, Surabaya, on Borneo (the
jungle road between Samarinda and Berau) and on Tarakan, a small island
with rich oil wells. Fragments from his uncles letters, archive footage
from the extensive Filmmuseum collection and the director's diary are combined
in a fascinating mix. Nico de Klerk |
