Digna Sinke : 2014
Onno is not available. Lots of friends and relatives leave a message on his answering machine, but Onno doesn't ring back. In fact, there is no interaction between the characters in the film at all. All the dialogue consists of messages left on the voicemail of Onno – the person everything is about and whose voice we never even hear. Onno is conspicuous by his absence: he suddenly disappeared, leaving people behind in confusion, fury and despair. Through the messages left for him, we slowly start building up a picture of Onno, of the relationships the different speakers have with him and what he means to them: his professional partner, his mother, his sister, his girlfriend, his phantom ex-lover. The footage accompanying the voice-overs is of the places that belong to the relevant voices: a container dock, suburban open space, water surrounded by waving reeds, an office building, motorway, the car park of a mega-store. We see what the callers see. But we don't see Onno. A clear and precise film about a man who had everything but didn't want it anymore. Digna Sinke's experimental feature premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014.
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