VOC / VIP Holland Experience
In the Netherlands, there is so much to be experienced and to be achieved. Behind walls and windows in seemingly dull streets, brisk trade is going on; battles are being fought and deals are concluded. In this animation film, Arno Coenen and Peter Leeuwerink are touring suburbs, city centres and polder landscapes as Hell’s Angel-like LEGO figures; several Dutch Golden Age naval heroes also make a casual appearance. At a hysterical speed and to the beat of a succession of Dutch patriotic classics, we are being carried along on a hallucinogenic trip – straight across the lowlands, where the sky is the limit, where swarms of paper money mix with hailstorms of pills, where paintings intermingle with underworld characters, and where you can merrily dance to a techno beat, near a windmill and beneath a rainbow. Tough guys and valiant men, fearless daredevils, always in for anything, from clog dance to XTC to football to West Indian Trade Company to war interventions: anything goes in this country, and it’s even legal, ha!
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Esma Moukhtar
Netherlands, 2007, 13'40'' (sound, colour). Collection: Netherlands Media Art Institute.
"VOC/VIP: Holland Experience! 2007 High End Edition"
by Arno Coenen and Peter Leeuwerink
Music : Kid Goesting and Transformer di Robotersound design: Johannes Malfatti and Alex Klosterfunded by : Fonds BKVB and Rijksmuseum intern: Ruben Pest distribution: Dutch Media Art Institute special thanx : Rene Bosma,supperclub,club 11 and beamsystems and mothership
copyright 2007 : Arno Coenen and Peter Leeuwerink
