Hoge Blekker: dark barnacled rocks scattered across a tidal flat under a grey overcast North Sea sky

Hoge Blekker

directed by Aylin Gökmen

A philosophical tale about the highest sand dune of Belgium. Shot on 16mm, this film is an ode to the relation between men and grain.

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Experimental
Role
Cinematographer
Director
Aylin Gökmen

Shot on 16mm, Hoge Blekker is a philosophical miniature about the highest sand dune of Belgium and the people drawn to it. Director Aylin Gökmen treats the dune as both location and metaphor: a mountain of loose grains that holds its shape only for a while, photographed on a medium that is itself made of grain. The texture of the stock and the texture of the sand become hard to tell apart, and that is the point: an image of permanence built entirely from particles. It is also the first of two collaborations between Gökmen and cinematographer Victor Maes, who reunited later for the 16mm documentary Ever Since, I Have Been Flying.

Hoge Blekker: extreme close macro of wet grained sand, thin water rivulets tracing soft ridges across the surface
Hoge Blekker: low upward angle on the corner of a modern white apartment tower against a pale blue sky
Hoge Blekker: wide empty beach with a distant row of seaside apartment blocks under hazy daylight
Hoge Blekker: dune grass on a sandy ridge with foggy coastal apartment buildings dissolving in the mist behind
Hoge Blekker: lone wooden beach cabin half-buried in a sand mound, facing the flat grey sea and horizon
Hoge Blekker: rolling sand dunes with low wooden fences under a heavy overcast sky above a distant sea
Hoge Blekker: weathered wooden posts standing in a receding line across a bright empty tidal beach
Hoge Blekker: two rocky breakwaters reaching into calm grey water beneath a soft overcast winter sky

Credits

Director

Aylin Gökmen

Cinematographer

Victor Maes

Assistant Director

Quan Nguyen Hong

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