Inverted Perspective (0+)
the Netherlands, 1996, colour, 110 min.
Director: Lily van den Bergh
Director: Lily van den Bergh
When Olga Sergevna came to Amsterdam for the first time in 1991, with her son Oleg and his army friend Sergey, they stayed several summer months in the home of film maker Lily vanden Bergh. Presented with the unique opportunity to observe their day-to-day encounters with Western society, she decided to record their experiences and reactions on film. No one could have suspected that Olga would take her own life in that same city a year later. Onthe 26th July 1992, the very day on which her husband had died three years earlier, her body was dragged out of an Amsterdam canal. Her sudden death placed the documentary as planned in an entirely different perspective.
Lily van den Bergh
Lily van den Bergh
is filmmaker and producer. She was an announcer for Dutch radio and television in the late sixties. She presented a cultural affairs radio program and worked as an editor for a cultural affairs program for Dutch NOS television. Lily van den Bergh contributed to a number of Dutch weekly magazines as a freelance journalist. She conducted a study of cable television and non-commercial video in Canada and the US. After several years of teaching pupils and advising primary and secondary schools about audio-visual media, she founded an audio-visual centre for non-commercial organizations, artists and cultural workshops: OpenStudio Video-Centrum (now the largest non-commercial audio-visual centre in Amsterdam). In 1985 she founded a professional film and television production company Open Studio Producties (Open Studio Productions), for which she has (co-) produced and/or directed 15 films.
FILMOGRAPHY
Selective Filmography: «Revolt in Sobibor», 1989 (Opstand in Sobibor); «Inverted Perspective», 1996; «Saved Tools’ or ‘Can you send me 60 saws and 12 sewingmachines?», 2000.
the Netherlands, 1996, colour, 110 min.
Director: Lily van den Bergh
Director: Lily van den Bergh
When Olga Sergevna came to Amsterdam for the first time in 1991, with her son Oleg and his army friend Sergey, they stayed several summer months in the home of film maker Lily vanden Bergh. Presented with the unique opportunity to observe their day-to-day encounters with Western society, she decided to record their experiences and reactions on film. No one could have suspected that Olga would take her own life in that same city a year later. Onthe 26th July 1992, the very day on which her husband had died three years earlier, her body was dragged out of an Amsterdam canal. Her sudden death placed the documentary as planned in an entirely different perspective.