A group of foreign researchers visits a site of ecological controversy and learns of the strange events that are happening to the lake and its human and non-human inhabitants. Can the natural reserve be healed with toxic mud as industries claim?
In the short film Kali Waal, landscape design is both poison and remedy. A nature reserve in the Netherlands is the setting for an ecological controversy. Decades of industrial sand extraction created lakes so deep that no light can reach the bottom. The lakes have become lifeless pools of water.
To help convey the feelings of unease and uncannyness we went with a ‘slightly off’ colour palette, that is close to natural, but not quite… Occasionally selectively sharpening elements to push the image towards magic realism.
Credits
| written and directed by | Jasper Coppes |
| cinematographer | Casper Brink |
| editor | Jasper Coppes |
| producer | Lonnie van Brummelen |
| production company | Vriza |