In Démontable, our domestic space turns into a world reminiscent of Gulliver’s Travels, invaded by miniature projections of the outside world. “A funny, playful film on the absurd relationship between daily life and global news. The level of media saturation we’re bombarded with creates an absurd distortion and distance between our daily routine and current affairs. Démontable explores this bizarre melange of realities by throwing the two worlds together: attack helicopters shred a newspaper, while a dinner plate suffers a drone strike. They’re a series of attempts to try and understand our world better by playing with its violent protagonists
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Cast
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Douwe Dijkstra Director
First release January 1, 2014 · Produced in Netherlands
Production
Netherlands
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Original language
Dutch
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Netherlands · January 1, 2014
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
Finland
April 3, 2017 · TV premiere
France
January 31, 2015 · Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Germany
June 4, 2014 · Hamburg Short Film Festival
Poland
July 30, 2014 · New Horizons Film Festival
Spain
December 1, 2015 · Tenerife Shorts
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