Playground

director: Gerco de Ruijter

original title: Playground

country: Netherlands

year: 2014

running time: 4 min.

synopsis

Sports activities, miniaturised in a stop-motion collage, become a symbol of national pride and public emotion. Two thousand American football fields, obtained from Google Earth’s satellite images, all with the same dimensions, help to create a fast game of organised images.

DETAIL:
Through the inclusion of a list of football teams, the compilation of graphical compositions also draws attention to the symbolism found in fandom.

biography

Gerco de Ruijter (1961), a visual artist from the Netherlands, specialises in landscape photography. In his creations he explores the boundaries of the perceptibility and reducibility of landscape presentations. His photographs are taken at distances ranging from 30 to 300 feet above the earth’s surface. He has presented his works at a number of independent and collective exhibitions.

more about film

director:	Gerco de Ruijter
producer:	Gerco de Ruijter
script:	Gerco de Ruijter
editing:	Gerco de Ruijter
music:	Michel Banabila
sound:	Michel Banabila

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