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locations – Marken / Monnickendam
Our baseline. Throughout the making of the film, the crew returned to this location day after day to film the scene at different times, from sunrise to sunset, and in weather conditions ranging from ten degrees below freezing in a force 7 gale to 25 degrees Celsius on...
museum – Hofwijck
Former residence and country home in Voorburg, designed and commissioned in 1642 by the architect, poet, art connoisseur, and composer Constantijn Huygens. His son Christiaan lived in the house until his death in 1695. Christiaan Huygens was one of Holland’s most...
museum – Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
The Gemeentemuseum The Hague, built in 1935 by the architect Berlage, is much loved for its architecture alone. But inside the collections are so vast that you really could spend the whole day there! You will come across the work of Piet Mondriaan, Picasso, Kandinsky,...
location – the Hague / Voorburg
The HagueWe filmed work by Mondriaan and the Hague School painters in the Gemeentemuseum, Hendrik Willem Mesdag’s seascapes in Panorama Mesdag, and views of the Hofvijver and the Mauritshuis. VoorburgThis is where the makers of Dutch Light spent their childhood and...
museum – de Pont
The outstanding collection of modern art at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg includes work by the American James Turrell. Besides a more or less permanent exhibition of art from its own holdings, the museum organises three large and several smaller temporary exhibitions...
location – de Bilt
Holland sometimes has four seasons in one day, remarked the 18th-century writer and philosopher Diderot. The weather and atmospheric conditions obviously affect the quality of the light, so the film also includes scenes shot at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological...
location – the Amstel River
The film includes footage of the Amstel River – Jan Andriesse’s source of inspiration – and an interview with the artist on his houseboat.
director – Pieter-Rim de Kroon
"The translation of the idea into film kept director Pieter-Rim de Kroon busy full-time for nearly a year and a half. In practice, the idea behaves quite differently in the film world. Suddenly, you have to deal with the 'restrictive' laws of cinema. What seems easy...
scriptwriter – Maarten de Kroon
In onze ogen is een scenario altijd een vertrekpunt en geen eindpunt. Juist bij zo’n soort documentaire zal en moet de film, voorafgaand en tijdens het draaien, verder groeien. Bedenken we nieuwe beelden door wat we ervaren tijdens het draaien, door wat er tijdens de...
D.O.P. – Paul van den Bos
Het onderwerp en de visuele stijl van de 1.85 widescreen 35mm filmdocumentaire Hollands Licht, waarbij het juist om de nuances in beeld gaat, om licht(-wisselingen), ruimte en kleur in het landschap, vraagt om een zo nauwkeurig mogelijk medium. En gebruik makend van...