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EYE OF THE DAY, THE
Leonard Retel Helmrich
NL 2001
94 min
V'02

The Eye of the Day is an inventive, cinematic documentary focussing on a particular familys struggle to survive in Indonesia around the time of the fall of Suharto, personal experience intercut with political footage. It is a film of contrasts and parallels, set partly in Jakarta, partly in rural Java, incorporating family arguments and civil unrest, political campaigning and harvesting maize, clamouring for a few handfuls of rice sold from the back of a truck and jostling for position to vote at the first democratic elections. Extraordinary images include a fairground roundabout with far too many people hanging on, men climbing on each others shoulders on a mud pole to reach a prize a pack of t-shirts and an encounter with a cobra during the maize harvest. (Alex King)

Credits
  • Leonard Retel Helmrich
  • Hetty Naaykens
  • Leonard Retel Helmrich
  • Ringo Pikal
  • Denise Janzée
  • Robert Broekhof
  • Ernst Jansz
  • Jan Hendriks
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