This website is showcasing the cinematic portfolio of director,
producer, screenwriter and sound designer Olivier de Bree.

It aims to give you, the visitor, an impression of the feeling and concepts
of the projects which have been completed by the filmmaker up until now.
It intends to do so by presenting multiple fragments of both textual
and visual material used in the films Al Inn and Pinks.

By clicking through the different pages, this website means to both
excite and trigger the viewer, hoping the (ever-changing) web experience
will inspire you to watch his films.


UPDATE:
Der Blick (2023) has recently been completed and is currently being
submitted to festivals. More material of this film will be added to this website soon.




More (visual) information can be found on Vimeo (trailers + teasers)
and Instagram (film stills + behind the scenes photography + media coverage).

For further information or in case of any questions please feel free to contact him.

Email: info@olivierdebree.com
Phone: +49 160 94187889 		Born in The Hague, The Netherlands (1987) // Currently based in Berlin, Germany.

EDUCATION (BDES PHOTOGRAPHY)
- Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam (NL) 2007 - 2011
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver (CA) 2009

FILM
- Writer / producer / director of Der Blick (a 22 minute tragic portrait)
produced in Germany 2022 - 2023


- Writer / producer / director of Pinks (a 110 minute historical science fiction)
produced in Germany, the Netherlands and Suriname 2017 - 2019

(broadcasted on TV by Apintie, ABC and Supreme, Suriname (SR) 2022) / IN THE MEDIA


- Writer / producer / director of Al Inn (a 48 minute experimental narrative)
produced in Germany and Colombia 2015 - 2016,
combined with found footage shot in Syria and aboard a cruise ship.

(premiered at the 20th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Paris (FR) 2018)




Der Blick (2023)

DE, 22 minutes
German spoken, English subtitles

Klaus (mid-thirties) spends his summer holidays in a hot Airbnb apartment in the big city. The flat
is owned by a midwife, which Klaus - having a deep-rooted fear of kids - sees as an unlucky sign.

Frustrated with life, he doesn’t do much apart from endlessly swiping on his phone, warming up
microwave meals and spying on neighbors through a camcorder with an extreme zoom function.
The TV is always on in the background, spreading a constant stream of negativity. An ongoing civil
war in the US being the dominating topic. He leaves the apartment as little as possible, since he
prefers the safety of his private space. There, he can hide behind his camera while observing the
outside world.

But is Klaus only looking at others, or is he being looked at himself as well?





WATCH TRAILER




Pinks (2019)

DE/NL/SR, 110 minutes (2023 re-cut: 87 minutes)
Dutch spoken, English subtitles

The Netherlands in the year 2363.

Three centuries full of devastating conflicts, extreme climate change and natural disasters
have turned the entire European continent into a nearly deserted wilderness.

The area finds itself in the aftermath of long-lasting colonial oppression,
of which the last convulsions are still tangible. Any form of government is long-gone,
and the only existing law is the law of nature.

The few remaining inhabitants are struggling to survive in this desolate situation,
and when a new group of fortune seekers sets foot ashore, panic breaks out.

These intruders have big plans.

WATCH TRAILER /// WATCH FULL FILM




Al Inn (2016)

DE/CO, 48 minutes
Arabic, Italian and Dutch spoken, English subtitles

Al Inn shows a combination of collected amateur material and homemade footage
shot with a smartphone.

The film serves as an aesthetic collage of contemporary reality. It is an ironic glorification
of paradise: on one hand the unearthly (holy) paradise depicted in a dreamlike variety
of visual material, including scenes from modern conflict zones. On the other hand the earthly
(everyday) paradise, portrayed as life aboard a cruise ship and experienced through
the eyes of Boudewijn, a veteran who lost his wife and kids during the terrorist attacks
in Paris in 2015.





WATCH TRAILER /// WATCH FULL FILM



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