WISTFUL WILDERNESS
The island Tiengemeten was once reclaimed from the sea and reshaped to provide fertile agricultural land. In the 1990s a decision was made to let the vagaries of nature loose on the island. Making plans, finding replacement farms for the farmers and finding financing took ten years. In 2006 the "reshaping" of the island was started. The asphalt roads were dug up to make way for creeks, trees were felled and new trees were planted, old dikes were removed and new ones created. Digna Sinke follows the changes in the landscape over a period of 13 years, also recollecting the changes in her own life.
Production Company
SNG Film P.O. Box 59081, 1040 KB Amsterdam / The Netherlands +31-20 686 78 37 +31-20 682 43 67 sngfilm@xs4all.nl www.sngfilm.nl
2010, The Netherlands, 88 min.
Prod. / Script / Dir.: Digna Sinke
Dir. of Phot.: Jan Wich, Goert Giltay, Maarten Kramer, Marc Horm, Peter Brugman, Paul van den Bos, Jaap Velthoe
Music: Antonin Dvorak
Sound: Tom d'Angremond, Menno Euwe, Jan Wouter van Reijen, Wouter Veldhuis, Erik Langhout, Sander den Broeder, Albert Elings
Edit.: Albert Elings
Digna Sinke (b. 1949, Zonnemaire)
Digna Sinke graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 1972 as writer / director of fiction films and documentaries. Her first long feature film The Silent Pacific was selected for competition of Berlin Film Festival 1984. In 2010 she completed her documentary project Wistful Wilderness, a long term project. In 2001 Digna Sinke took over the production company SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden) from her late husband Rene Scholten. Since then she produced 20 films: experimental shorts, feature length documentaries and fiction.
Filmography (selected)
Groeten uit Zonnemaire (1972), De hoop van het vaderland (1982), The Silent Pacific (1984), Nieuwe golf (1985), Niets voor de eeuwigheid (1991), Boven de bergen (1992), Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière (1993), Lucht om na te denken (1999), Tiengemeten - Deel 1 (2001), Tiengemeten 2001-2006 (2006), Atlantis (2008), Nieuw Tiengemeten (2010), Wistful Wilderness (2010).