Het Zwijgen van Helena, Pieter Dumoulin (2012)

NL

HDcam, 27 min.

Helena en haar broer, beiden twintigers, zijn met hun moeder in de stad waar ze jaarlijks de zomer doorbrengen. De rust en uitgelatenheid die de vakantie zou moeten brengen, zijn echter wrang omgeslagen. Hun moeder is ernstig ziek.

De druk van een mogelijks overlijden weegt op Helena en ze keert zich af. De kamer waar haar moeder ligt, wordt een verboden ruimte. Onrein, bezoedeld; bewoond door een lichaam dat van zijn waardigheid is beroofd. Helenas broer houdt in paniek alles voor de buitenwereld verborgen en verzorgt in stilte zijn moeder.

Met: Eva Binon, Hans Mortelmans, Isabelle Cromer

Regie: Pieter Dumoulin

Regie assistent: Rasmus van Heddeghem

Camera: Ruben Desiere

Klankopname: Chiel Loos

Catering en transport: Seraina De Blok en Jasmien Ampe

Beeld- en klankmontage: Pieter Dumoulin

Montage-advies: Dieter Diependaele, Elias Grootaers, Martine Huvenne

Mixage: Michel Coquette

Grading: Chris Van Osselaer

Muziek: Seppe Gebreurs

EN

HDcam, 27 min.

Helena and her brother, both in their twenties, stay with their mother in the city where they always spend the summer. But the peace and happiness that the holidays are supposed to bring, has turned. Their mother is taken seriously ill. The pressure of a possible death weighs heavily on Helena and she turns away. The room where her mother lies becomes taboo, stained by a body that is stripped of its dignity. In a panic, Helena’s brother keeps everything hidden from the outer world and nurses his mother in silence.

With: Eva Binon, Hans Mortelmans, Isabelle Cromer

 

Born in 1989 in Mombassa (Kenya), Pieter Dumoulin graduated in 2012. His graduation film Helena (2012) was selected by IFFRotterdam (2013) and Courtisane festival (2013).

Pieter works as a filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer, both in cinema and theater. Since 2009 Pieter has been working with theater company tibaldus as documenting photographer and filmmaker. From 2011 to 2014 he collaborated with actor Jan Steen, for whom Pieter made four complementary films to Jan’s PhD-project Being in playing.

For the short film The Reconstruction (2016) Pieter collaborated as a co-director with Timeau De Keyser. In continued collaboration, they realized their first feature film Etangs Noirs (2018), produced by Brussels based Accattone films. Set in the Cité Modèle in Laken (Brussels), the film follows Jimi who tries to return a wrongly delivered parcel, which sends him on a journey through his neighborhood and the metro-network of the city. Etangs Noirs premiered in October 2018 in London at the BFI London Film Festival and at Film Fest Ghent in Belgium.

http://www.pieterdumoulin.com/