Ordinary Things (that happened in the childhood home of the maker of this film)
YEAR
2018
MEDIUM
DCP, B/W & color, 16:9, 5.1, English, 11m 50s
WRITER & DIRECTOR
Rachel Gruijters
PERFORMANCE
Rachel Gruijters & Janne van de Weijer
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Lennert De Taeye
WARDROBE
Stijn Van Den Bulck
ART DIRECTION
Stéphanie Desmadryl
EDITING
Jasper Flikschuh & Rachel Gruijters
SOUND BOOM OPERATOR
Charles Dhondt
COLOR GRADING
Lennert De Taeye
PRODUCED BY
Blauwhuis
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Lotte Van Craeynest
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
VAF — Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds
AVAILABILITY
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The reliability of memory is being questioned when, set within the highly constructed world of Old Hollywood, the filmmaker recalls memories of her childhood home.
Somewhere between the 1940s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor gleams, the spotlights are burning, the narration starts.
Born out of a fascination for the construction that is Hollywood, and by extension ‘the perfect Hollywood home’, the maker embodied these three actresses and their so-called private lives. Their smallest personality traits are performed so precise and characteristically that it becomes artificial. The home isn’t homely. It plays “house” and the inhabitants are speaking Hollywoodian.
