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RÜGEN FLICKS (2)
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RÜGEN FLICKS (2)
In April 2024 my wife and I visited the island of Rügen for the fifth time. For some people this might be four times too many. We, however, feel that even ten visits to this Baltic island would not be enough.
What is it that gets people to go back to a certain area time and again, and why are certain places in that area so highly attractive to them? What is it that makes you feel at home there? I ask myself that question in one of the films: “What’s the magic of any place?”
In the Rügen Flicks filmseries this question remains unanswered. Had an answer been possible, any excitement or curiosity regarding this theme would have been killed straight away. Each of us sports a ‘magical’ place of their own on this planet, and often more than one, but to express the magic one feels and undergoes in text and imagery is not an easy task.
I ask the question in English. The lyrics that come with the Rügen Flicks films are all in English. I have deliberately decided to express myself in this language for this film project, and I will try to explain why I made this choice.
Partly the choice lies in my past of reading English at Groningen University and in my long career as a teacher of English at several secondary schools. Professionally, I had always been intrigued by the various aspects of the English language, and now as an amateur filmmaker I find that this fascination has never left me. Moreover, I have always been fond of writing as a form of self-expression, mostly in my mother tongue Dutch, but at times I love to write in the language I used to teach.
Then there is the fact that my YouTube channel is visited by as many people from abroad as by people in the Netherlands, which is why I decided to use English (beside Dutch) in my video projects.
Making a film project about Rügen for the fifth time meant I had to set about things a bit differently from what I had done in the past. The idea arose to write lyrics to describe the feelings and impressions fitting the footage I had shot. Combining footage and words has always fascinated me. The Rügen shots I took home with me to Groningen in April were thematically arranged and I sat down to write my English lyrics to that thematic approach.
Jakob
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RÜGEN FLICKS (1)
RÜGEN FLICKS is de titel van ons nieuwe videoproject. Het is de bedoeling in het najaar van 2024 DEEL 1 uit te brengen. Bijzonder aan deze reeks over het eiland Rügen is de poëtische benadering van de diverse onderwerpen die we over dit Oostzee eiland laten zien. FFG PROJECT INFO op onze website geeft meer informatie.
Jakob
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RÜGEN FLICKS (1)
RÜGEN FLICKS is the title of our new video project. In the autumn of 2024 we mean to bring out PART 1. What makes this Rügen project so remarkable is the poetic approach to the various topics relating to this Baltic Sea island. Further details are provided by FFG PROJECT INFO on our website.
Jakob
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FFG publishes blogs in Dutch and in English. Contact: filmfabriekgroningen@gmail.com

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