Fishy

“Everything that lasts becomes a form of truth. Since I’m filming you, this moment will stay in our minds.” This is what a young Swedish girl tells to her American lover, while in bed – or, perhaps, this is what she writes in her diary, as she’s sitting in her room. In her delightful early short, Leopold already reveals the main features of her cinematic style: irony, playfulness, and contemplation, elements which go hand-in-hand with recognizing desire and this haunting sense of an ending.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Nanouk Leopold

Co-direction: Froukje Tan

Script: Froukje Tan

Cinematography: Benito Strangio

Sound: Arthur Bueno

Music: Lucas Simonis

Production: Atlaska

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Production Country: Netherlands

Production Year: 1994

Duration: 10΄

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and from the Dutch Film and Television Academy. Her debut Îles Flottantes was selected for the IFFR Tiger Competition in 2001. Guernsey was selected for the Quinzaine at Cannes in 2005. Wolfsbergen premiered at the Forum of the Berlinale 2007 and was selected for TIFF in the same year. Brownian Movement premiered in Toronto in 2010 and had its European premiere at the Forum in Berlin in 2011. In 2013 It’s All So Quiet was the opening film of the Berlinale Panorama Special. In 2018 Cobain had its world premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation section. Nanouk became a member of the Society of the Arts of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 2016. In 2017 she directed her first play, From the Life of the Marionettes, for the prestigious Amsterdam theatre group ITA and in 2019 The Homecoming by Harold Pinter. Nanouk also makes video installations together with visual artist Daan Emmen. Early 2021 they finished an installation for the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam. The same year she made her opera debut with Der Zwerg by Zemlinsky for the Dutch National Opera. She also directed Anatomy of a Suicide by Alice Birch in 2021. With Whitetail, Leopold makes her highly anticipated return to the silver screen.