Glass, My Unfulfilled Life (16+)
Grand Prix “Big Golden Nanook” for the best film of the festival.
Audience Award
Audience Award
Netherlands, 2023, colour, 94 min.
Director: Rogier Kappers
Director: Rogier Kappers
Glass, My Unfulfilled Life is the tragi-comic coming of old age story of 52-year-old Rogier Kappers, who pursues his childhood dream: He wants to become a famous street musician on the glass organ, an instrument made of singing wine glasses.
In the film we follow our (anti-)hero on his sometimes hilarious, yet always moving quest for fame, love and fortune. From building his own glass organ, to a passionate encounter with the world-famous composer Arvo Pärt; from the first steps as the street musician to a disastrous adventure in Dubai; up to the never-expected 'grand finale'...
In the film we follow our (anti-)hero on his sometimes hilarious, yet always moving quest for fame, love and fortune. From building his own glass organ, to a passionate encounter with the world-famous composer Arvo Pärt; from the first steps as the street musician to a disastrous adventure in Dubai; up to the never-expected 'grand finale'...
Rogier Kappers
Rogier Kappers
Rogier Kappers (1963) has worked as a documentary director and producer in the national and international market for over thirty years. He has a great love for documentaries about music. He won a Golden Calf (the highest Dutch Film Prize) with his feature length documentary Lomax the Songhunter (2005, 90 minutes, NPO/PBS/ VTR / TV Catalunya). Among many other awards, the film was nominated for an International Emmy Award. Next to his film career, Kappers started in 2016 a music career on his self-built glass organ. 'Glass, My Unfulfilled Life' is about this big adventures, which is filmed from the first day onward for seven years.
FILMOGRAPHY
«History Will Prove Our Innocence», 1991;
«Basalt», 1994;
«Lomax the Songhunter», 2005;
«Life and Times of Ssuuna Golooba», 2011;
«Glass, My Unfulflled Life», 2024
«Basalt», 1994;
«Lomax the Songhunter», 2005;
«Life and Times of Ssuuna Golooba», 2011;
«Glass, My Unfulflled Life», 2024
Grand Prix “Big Golden Nanook” for the best film of the festival.
Audience Award
Audience Award
Netherlands, 2023, colour, 94 min.
Director: Rogier Kappers
Director: Rogier Kappers
Glass, My Unfulfilled Life is the tragi-comic coming of old age story of 52-year-old Rogier Kappers, who pursues his childhood dream: He wants to become a famous street musician on the glass organ, an instrument made of singing wine glasses.
In the film we follow our (anti-)hero on his sometimes hilarious, yet always moving quest for fame, love and fortune. From building his own glass organ, to a passionate encounter with the world-famous composer Arvo Pärt; from the first steps as the street musician to a disastrous adventure in Dubai; up to the never-expected 'grand finale'...
In the film we follow our (anti-)hero on his sometimes hilarious, yet always moving quest for fame, love and fortune. From building his own glass organ, to a passionate encounter with the world-famous composer Arvo Pärt; from the first steps as the street musician to a disastrous adventure in Dubai; up to the never-expected 'grand finale'...