“I also made a little film that I paid for through my work as a photographer: Even stilte (A Moment’s Silence). In it, I tried to extract meaning out of almost nothing, a kind of little painting of the city of Amsterdam. What was most exciting about it for me was a scene in which you see a boy on his own, playing basketball on a foggy town square. There is no dramatic development at all. It was an attempt to capture a length of time. I found it stimulating to see, the third time the scene was repeated, how the boy’s movements, despite the fact that they were still exactly the same, began to take on an unreal quality, because of their being repetition, their placement in the space, the emphasis that the repetition gives it, as well as the sound, which is also repeated.” (JVDK)
