Name: Still World
Director: Elbert van Strien
Released: 2005-12-22
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Fedja van Huêt, Han Kerckhoffs, Ellen de Man Lapidoth, Daan Schuurmans, Lukas Dijkema

A 30-minute existential gut-punch about the conspiracy of being... fine.

Office-drone dreadDutch deadpanKafkaesque bureaucracy

Overview

Photofilm about a journalist of a local newspaper who feels his life has come to a standstill, until he discovers a conspiracy of mediocrity...

NL Dutch

Content warning

Stagnation as violenceComplicity in mediocrityThe horror of 'good enough'Journalistic integrity vs. complacency

Standout Aspects

Direction

Van Strien crafts dread from fluorescent lighting and photocopier hum.

Acting

Van Huêt's silently crumbling everyman is devastatingly relatable.

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Director

Elbert van Strien

ReleasedDec 22, 2005

Runtime30m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow

Intensitymedium

Tonedark

Feelmedium

Top Cast

Fedja van Huêt

Daan Schuurmans

Lukas Dijkema

Guus van der Made

Sacha Bulthuis

Hadewych Minis

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Part of a wave of early-2000s Dutch cinema exploring white-collar malaise, influenced by the country's economic stagnation period.

Trivia

Van Strien later directed 'Two Eyes Staring' and 'The Domestics,' returning to similar themes of domestic unease.

Still World (2005)