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Silent film poem based on a thousand-year-old text that inspired Slauerhoff to write Het Lente-eiland. An imaginary dialogue about the artist’s loneliness in the modern age.

In the 1920s, Slauerhoff visited China. Later, in 1930, he wrote the story Het Lente-eiland, in which he incorporated a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty about an old harp. The film is a musical, but silent film poem in which typographic elements and archive footage connect the China from Slauerhoff’s era with modern-day China in an imaginary dialogue about the artist’s loneliness in the modern age.

Title: The Old Harp
Year: 2011
Duration : 19 minutes
Category: Short Feature
Edition: NFF 2011

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