Peet Gelderblom (1971)
Peet studied Graphic Arts in Rotterdam and has been working as a director/editor/motion designer in television, commercials and broadcast design for over 18 years. He directed station IDs for Dutch TV channel Talpa, corporate films for Philips and several trailers and promos for clients like Universal Pictures, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. Out of Sync marks his official fiction film debut.
In 2007, Peet won the Socutera Award for a public announcement for the Dutch Brain Disease Foundation. His Talpa IDs were awarded a Bronzen Button in 2006 and his TV program Waar is De Mol? was nominated for the 2008 Beeld & Geluid Awards. Peet has published several essays on cinema on websites such as The House Next Door, 24LiesASecond and Lost in Negative Space. He also created the comic strip series Directorama, which chronicles the afterlife of a pantheon of legendary directors - among them Bergman, Hitchcock and Welles - duking it out for artistic supremacy. Personal website and online portfolio: www.directorama.net. |
Director's Statement
“I’ve always been curious about what happens to a room as soon as you leave it. When you share a space with someone, you look each other in the eye and form a bond. That bond is physically broken when you walk out of the door. No matter how intimate it got in there, you’re no longer in close contact. Suddenly, all you have left is trust.
Film is a great medium to explore this very human situation. You can cross-cut between different locations or simultaneously show different points of view by having a scene play out in split-screen. In this film, I chose to separate what you see from what you hear. When people watch a movie they tend to pay close attention to the visuals, but acoustics are half of the cinematic experience. With Out of Sync, I wanted to play with the synergy between sound and image and make a short that forces the audience to really listen. At the same time, I wasn’t interested in obscure experiments. The style had to fit the theme and become a natural expression for the struggle between the characters. Ultimately, my aim was to make a formally daring crowd pleaser--a rarity these days.” |