De Hemel Is Gesmolten

— Short documentary directed by Malika Helena de Rijke

Compilation of two music cues.

De Hemel Is Gesmolten - Natuur
Tibor Mercks

We, as humans, are trapped in the systems we created. Does ultimate freedom exist? Can we ever be ultimately free, if we’ve never chosen to be born in the first place? Can we say that, for example, nature is free? De Hemel Is Gesmolten takes you on an essayistic journey in which these questions are posed in a poetic way, and invites the viewer to be part of this existential, philosophical process where image, music and voice-over form a trinity of equal importance.

With the music, I blended acoustic and electronic elements to create a transcendent, larger than life feeling, and give the known world seen in the film unfamiliar colours.

View through a grid-patterned window showing blurred interior reflections and silhouettes of plants or trees outside.
Close-up of an offshore oil rig with smoke emitting from its top, surrounded by thick fog.
Close-up of a graphic illustration of a woman with a distressed expression, covering one eye with her hand, with vivid colors and black outlines, resembling a comic or pop art style.
Close-up of a person's skin with wrinkles and creases.
A close-up of a baby bird being born, with extricated shell, lying on a dark surface.

director & screenwriter Malika Helena de Rijke | producers Alex Spruijt & Eva Schipper | cinematography Thomas Zeman | editor Cynthia de Haan | production design Lin de Monchy & Daan van de Gender | sound designer Kjell Postma | composer Tibor Mercks | flute Emir Hadimoglu | oboe Francisco Marcheselli | clarinet Luiz Lepchak | bass clarinet Nick van der Woude | violin Guillaume Duby | viola Marike Knegtering | cello Miki Rigutto | studio engineer Ido Zilberman

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