Supporting Film / Voor Film is about the experience and ritual of watching film, as seens through people of diverse perspectives. Via Short of the Week:
A short film about film, Douwe Dijkstra’s Supporting Film is a collection of views and opinions about cinema and the effect is has on us. A must-watch for movie lovers, this 12-minute experimental doc seamlessly blends audio interviews with playful and inventive visual representations of the points being made, resulting in an entertaining, meta short that we all should be able to relate to.
With director Dijkstra revealing he “set out to create what I would like to see in a cinema as a pre-feature short film”, Supporting Film provides some fresh point-of-views on the cinema experience. From being a theatre-goer with a visual impairment, to trying to hide your tears from fellow audience members, this is a film that really gets you thinking about how we digest film.
“It would be great if the film provides you with some new perspectives of looking”, Dijkstra explains when discussing the aims of his short with Short of the Week. “An important part of seeing a movie in a cinema is the fact that you are not alone, something I wanted to celebrate (opposed to the contemporary individual tv/computer watching) by showing you the eclectic views of different people towards films”.
Essentially setting out to answer that never-more relevant question – why do we go to the movies? – Dijkstra started creating his film by first recording interviews with people and then editing them into a kind of radio documentary before moving onto the visuals of his short.