.Nijnok

Hidden in the countryside in Brabant, Netherlands is an unusual farm. The sound of chickens and cows cannot be heard. It doesn’t smell of pigs. No sounds, no smell. In the long low barns we find over 20.000 small white rabbits. This film tells the story, in reverse (the title, spelled backwards, reads “rabbit” in Dutch), of 20,000 albino rabbits on a breeding farm. .NIJNOK uses an alienating style to describe the process from the rabbits' birth to their departure to another place. The fluent, backward movements of both breeders and rabbits evoke a sense of extreme distance, but at the same time a strange commitment to the furry animals' fate. The farmers carry out their monotonous activities day in and day out. They feed the rabbits, remove dead bodies, relocate animals and inseminate the mother rabbits. All movements are repeated so often that the filmmaker creates an atmosphere of abstraction.

LEPURI

Ėshtė njė fermė nė fshatin holandez. Nuk ka zėra tė pulave apo lopėve. Nuk kutėrbojnė derrat. Nuk ka erė as zė. Nė koēekėt e ulėt dhe tė gjatė jetojnė 20 000 lepuj tė bardhė.  Ky film ėshtė njė tregim (titulli i lexuar mbrapsht don tė thotė ‘lepur’ nė gjuhėn holandeze) mbi 20.000 lepuj tė bardhė nė njė fermė pėr rritjen e tyre. “NIJNOK” pėrdor njė stilt tė tjetėrsuar pėr tė pėrshkruar procesin nga lindja e lepujve deri te largimi i tyre nė njė vend tjetėr. Lėvizjet e lirshme mbrapsht e tė dy palėve, mbarėshtuesit dhe lepujve, ndjellin njė ndjenjė tė distancės sė skejshme, por nė tė njetėn kohė, njė angazhim tė ēuditshėm pėr fatin e mveshur tė shtazėve. Farmerėt kryejnė aktivitetet e tyre monotone ditė pėr ditė. I ushqejnė lepujt, i largojnė tė ngordhurit, zhvendosin shtazėt dhe kujdesen pėr mbarėsimin e lepujvė nėna. Tė gjitha lėvizjet pėrsėriten aq shpesh sa qė kineasti krijon njė atmosferė abstrakte.

GOLDEN CALF for BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY, UTRECHT 2004

Jury: Consequent and immaculate stylised design have a merciless effect on the viewer

 Director & Scenario:   Leo Wentink

Camera:                      Aage Hollander

Sound:                         Tom Bijnen

Music:                          Evelien van den Broek

Editor:                          Katarina Türler

Producers:                  André Bos, Hans Mulder