Editorial IFFR
After WWII, Dutch artist Pierre Raaijmakers bought a house in the French Pyrenees, and went to live in it with his Flemish wife. They had twelve children; Peter van Houten made the film La vie de Jean-Marie, an audience favourite at IFFR in 2015, about their eldest son. Having spent six years following Jean-Marie, Van Houten turned his camera on his brother, Emile. Read the full text here.

Interview Screendaily.com
Screendaily.com interviewed Peter van Houten about his last film: “I’ve known the family for 25 years, so we’re very close. After 10 years of following Emile, one day he grabbed me by the throat and said “you have to make this movie!” La Vie De Jean-Marie had already screened here, but in the mountain of footage I had during all those years I was not able to find any key. Read the full text here.

Ledjaar van Houten, Writer
The film depicts not just a life with chronological and specific events, but also a field tof forces that plays through Miel’s life. Some of these forces are: the father (beauty, authority, threat, power), the  other (current, absence of ego, sadness), Miel (dark, breath, smoke, fire, finite, flowers, cold, earth, rain, light, inside, outside, play, participate, withdrawn, wind, space, winter). Read the full text here.

IFFR Signatures
Poetic, patient and loving film essay about Emile, who isalmost 80 years old, and looks back on a wondrous youth in the French Pyrenees. Read the full text here.