NO BALANCE PALACE

Essay film short
13’ (2017)

A few months after moving to Amsterdam a man begins suffering from a strange affliction; his balance is shattered, he is dizzy, can’t walk straight, some days he can barely think. He sees a GP who looks at him disdainfully: “A man in his thirties arrives in Amsterdam and starts feeling dizzy. What drugs did you do?” He swears he didn’t. This vertigo is induced by something different.

I am in Amsterdam to study and work. Exam season at Master of Film is approaching and I need something to show for the semester that has passed; research in subjectivity and a critical review of my previous practice. The vertigo confines us to our tiny studio under the roof in Museumplein which he leaves, braving his nausea, only to appease his dog Wolfgang’s judgmental gaze and bring home questionable remedies for his vertigo and sometimes makeshift props to subvert this condition for the film essay we are slowly building.

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