Digna Sinke
Born 1949 in Zonnemaire. Graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 1972 as writer/director of fiction films and documentaries. Winner the main prize at the Mannheim/Heidelberg festival 1994. In 2001 took over the production company SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden). Since then she produced 20 films: experimental shorts, feature length documentaries and fiction.
Filmography
New tiengemeten (2010)
Wistful wilderness (2010)
Atlantis (2008)
Tiengemeten 2001–2006 (2006)
Brossa (2005)
Hope & expectations (2004)
Tiengemeten part one (2001)
Space to think (1999)
Films
- Weemoed & wildernis
The island Tiengemeten was once reclaimed from the sea and reshaped to provide fertile agricultural land. In the 1990s a decision was made to let the vagaries of nature loose on the island. Making plans, finding replacement farms for the farmers and finding financing took ten years. In 2006 the “reshaping” of the island was started. The asphalt roads were dug up to make way for creeks, trees were felled and new trees were planted, old dikes were removed and new ones created. Digna Sinke follows the changes in the landscape over a period of 13 years, also recollecting the changes in her own life. The signifying themes of the film are temporality and transitoriness.
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