Anima – the soul of the harbor
A film by Anna Witte and Josefien van Kooten, production: NEWTON film/Ton van Zantvoort.
A short experimental documentary about the human need to escape control. The film will be shot in the Rotterdam harbor, depicting scenes of the men who work there: the dockers, the seafarers, the port chaplain.
Raddraaiers
Podcast with Frans van der Vleuten en Mattijs de Regt. Long live serendipity! By spinning just a few too many wheels, we research topics and questions, which are thrown together blindly. Highly random, but wonderfully coherent.
Within a Walled World
“Good People” is an ego-documentary in which two documentary-makers try to find their own position concerning a world problem. Confronted with suffering, acute needs and requests for help from countless refugees on the greek island of Lesbos, Anna Witte and Josefien van Kooten research the role of media, which they themselves are part of. In an essayistic manner the film reflects on how the documentation of social problems takes place and the borders that are crossed in the process.
Director: Anna Witte and Josefien van Kooten
Duration 29 minutes
Language: Dutch, English, Greek
Subtitles: English
Pools voor beginners
400 Polish migrant workers found their home at Stella Maris – a Dutch hotel which offers them new rooms, Polish television, entertainment and a gym. However, what they came for is still just an outline of their desire for a better future.
Director: Anna Witte and Josefien van Kooten
Duration: 25 minutes
Language: Polish, Dutch
Subtitles: English
Zuhause
An essayistic reflection on what home is. The documentary maker films her family and former home trying to understand the dynamics of leaving a place or staying.
Director: Anna Witte
Duration: 25 minutes
Language: German
Subtitles: English
To watch any of the films, please contact me: annawittefilm@gmail.com