Noordsterren - De jaren waarin ik niet film

I am born on the Wadden Sea dike. On my 14th birthday, I receive a camera with one roll of black and white film and wander through the meadows. Fifteen years later, I live in the city and make films. The prints from my very first roll of film are found in the house where I grew up; the negatives are lost. I see a landscape that I miss. Back in the meadows, I give birth to two children in one year. Unprepared for my new role as a mother, I am constantly tossed between delight and exhaustion. Stagnation sets in. Days and nights become one. Time shrinks and expands again; it distorts. Days seem endless; months fly by. With my children, I wander through the meadows of my youth. I am never alone anymore, yet I feel lonely. As the children grow, time once again becomes just something that slips through your fingers. I look at my photos and reflect on the years gone by. I see my mother in the distance and realize that she is also a mother. I look at the meadows and see a landscape I still miss. And I know; everything passes.