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Can Go Through Skin (Kan door huid heen) Children of invention
THE NETHERLANDS
Already reeling from a breakup with her boyfriend, a young Dutch
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Having grown up surrounded by the skin-care samples and vitamin
Director: Esther Rots woman becomes the victim of a random act of violence, sending her Director: Tze Chun supplements that fill the homes of people who invest their savings
Producers: Esther Rots, Hugo Rots, Trent into a full-blown tailspin. Marieke retreats to a dilapidated cottage Producers: Mynette Louie, Trevor Sagan
to take part in get-rich-quick enterprises, filmmaker Tze Chun is all
Screenwriter: Esther Rots
in the rural Netherlands in hopes of recovering her equilibrium – but
Screenwriter: Tze Chun
too aware of the ways in which immigrants are targeted by the con
Cinematographer: Lennert Hillege
it’s not that simple. After being arrested and charged, her attacker
Cinematographer: Chris Teague
artists behind direct marketing schemes – and how many of them,
Editor: Esther Rots
receives only a light punishment for his crime; enduring paroxysms of initially convinced they’ve found the riches they came America for, find
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Editor: Anna Boden
themselves caught beneath its underbelly, much to their own sorrow.
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Cast:
fear as well as bouts of depression and even delusion, Marieke discovers
Rifka Lodeizen, Wim Opbrouck Cast: Cindy Cheung, Michael Chen,
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in herself a searing need for vengeance. Only when the harsh winter
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loosens its grip on the land does Marieke shows signs of renewal herself, Chun tells the story of Elaine (Cindy Cheung), a single, mild-mannered
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2009 / color / 86 min.
forming a bond with a farmer neighbor and beginning to restore her mother of two – and a gullible attendee of marketing seminars.
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cottage. But how sure-footed is her progress? Desperate, foreclosed on, and down to her last bit of savings, Elaine is
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ESThEr roTS especially vulnerable to the suggestion that she can achieve wealth if
Currently living in Amsterdam, Esther
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Acclaimed shorts filmmaker Esther Rots wrote and directed her feature she just works hard enough at it – and invests in a venture that turns
Rots was born in 1972 in Groenlo,
Tze Chun is a filmmaker and artist
debut, starring Rifka Lodeizen in a powerfully honest performance.
The Netherlands. She studied at the
working out of New York City and
out to be a pyramid scheme. When law enforcement officers show up to
Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem, then
Rots’s highly intuitive style manifests itself in a bracing sense of Los Angeles. Born in Chicago, raised arrest her, she keeps mum about her children for fear they will be taken
the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam.
immediacy. Throughout, the intense intimacy she develops between
in Boston, he received his BA in film
from her. Completely in the dark about what has happened, 11-year-
She has made several award-winning camera and character and the spare poetry of her observations bring an
from Columbia University. In 2007,
old Raymond and eight-year-old Tina are suddenly left to fend for
shorts, including Play with Me (2002)
unexpected and oddly healing quality to the narrative. Can Go Through
Filmmaker Magazine named Chun one
themselves in suburban Boston. Taking charge to care for his little sister,
and I Sprout (2003), both of which
of its 25 New Faces of Independent
Skin was supported by a grant from Filmfonds, the national endowment
competed at the Cannes Film Festival.
Film. CVZContemporary Gallery in Soho
Raymond, a budding inventor, puts to good use what he’s learned from
for cinema in the Netherlands, which named Rots one of its Ten to
Can Go Through Skin is her feature
represents his visual art, and his award-
all those seminars his mother forced him to sit in on.
debut.
Watch. winning short films have screened at
numerous festivals, including Sundance.
Chun, 28, has began making shorts and writing full-length scripts on
a strict regimen since college. Children of Invention marks his feature
debut.
In cooperation with:
UC-Denver Asian American Education program
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