Boer Berend

 

2004
4 video’s on VHS
320×240 px (made with one of the
first small digital camera’s that could film)
4 photo’s and one text-frame
1 small book

 

Originally presented with real hay in a closed space for the experience of smell.

 

Boer Berend / Farmer Berend is a project in which I spent two weeks at Berend’s farm. For me as a city person I wondered what life in the countryside would be like. The result was two weeks of being up from 6am to 12pm experiencing the hard work of a farmers life.

 

The book shows images of this life, the texts are reflections of my thoughts while working alongside him.

 

The photographs and the 4 short movies illustrate the farm-life and its surroundings.




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