Osmose (Osmosis)

Narrative short film

My very first film shown for public.
At the premiere (IFFR 1987), the public in the cinema became a part of the frame story in the film by placing two actors in front of the screen, making music and dancing strangely before the film started.
I instructed the actors to keep playing until they would be removed by security. When the film finally started the characters were back, now in the film, dancing and playing in front of a cinema and later, in a next layer in the film, in front of a church.
Osmose is a frame story with a cycling postman who delivers an obituary to a man, a sleeping sexton at home in his bed. In the church, the sexton shows the obituary to the organist. The latter plays a tango on the church organ. Then they turn out to be in a film, just like an audience that is watching the film in the cinema.

With a.o. Pavel Petrycski, Henk Koorn and Cor van Kuieren

Screenplay, direction, production and editing: Han Hoezen

Camera: Han Hoezen and Brigit Hillenius

Sound: Frits de Bruijn