34 minutes of pure visual rebellion from a director who'd rather show than tell.
Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the individual, the desire for a utopia that does not come true, the lonely and misunderstood artist, the aversion to the state, bureaucracy and religious authorities, absurd side characters etc. The film has little dialogue and is largely told through the images of cameraman Jan de Bon
Cinematography
Jan de Bon's images do all the talking.
Direction
Ditvoorst's anti-dialogue manifesto.
Director
Adriaan Ditvoorst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ditvoorst was Dutch cinema's angry conscience, and this short is his middle finger to the establishment.
The near-silent structure was radical for 1970—Ditvoorst trusted images over exposition decades before it was trendy.
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