Dutch filmmakers Lernert & Sander created a beautifully slick, creative film for Lensvelt’s ‘The Boring Collection’ of grey office furniture. The collection is, according to the filmmakers:
“a comment on the ‘ugly’ appearance of affordable contract furniture and the distracting designs being added to some workplaces,” says Lernert & Sander. The film, called 16:59, echoes the sentiment by reenacting the “most iconic gesture of boredom” – the act of throwing a paper ball into a bin until it’s home time.
The filmmakers also created images for a stills campaign, and will be repeated at the Salone de Mobile this year with an installation of 150,000 paper balls.
Credits:
Commissioned by Lensvelt and Space Encounters
Concept & direction: Lernert & Sander
Production company: ADULT (met link erachter adult-image.tv)
Executive producer: Maarten Le Roy
Producer: Brechje Depourcq
Production assistant: Dennis Vanderbroeck
Design assistant: Casper Braat
DOP: Piotr Kukla
Styling: Thomas Vermeer
Light: Gerard Stam
Grip: Mike Laureys
Art director: Egbert and Titus Steenwinkel
Editor: Simone Rau
Online & grading: Charles De Meyer
Music & soundscape: Diederik Idenburg (M-OST)
Extras: Tjade Bouma, Loek de Bakker, Milou van Duijnhoven, Rozanne de Bont, Veronique de Koning, Pietro Kruithof, Erdem Gesmiroglu, Lotte Driessen, Wouter Dullaert