Nina De Vroome

"She shows me the pavement, the garage, the utility room and then the garden, where chickens sit neatly in their coop. Her mother loves classical music, but her neighbours don't. There used to be no fence between them, but now there are butterfly bushes growing there. To each their own music." - Excerpt from a possible voice-over for 'Over the Fence'

Filmmaker Nina de Vroome takes a walk through the neighbourhood. One encounter follows another, creating a picture of the connections and divisions that characterise this neighbourhood.

Nina on the neighbourhood, her creative process, and the tour she will present around her work.

I arrived in the neighbourhood and immediately saw the group of trees in the middle of the square with a historic pillar. An anachronistic element in a neighbourhood from the 1970s. The neighbourhood seemed to have been built around the pillar. I made a film that brings together a number of encounters with local residents in a short narrative. The film is documentary, but also fiction, because in the voice-over I talk about the history of the pillar and the people I meet, without it always being clear whether I am telling the truth.

Every interaction is a game in which you exchange things, keep things hidden and challenge each other. An encounter with a filmmaker invites you to enter a cinematic space. In the film 'Over the fence', I am invited into several gardens. Each garden is a small exhibition, in which flowers, sculptures and flower beds form a composition. It is an outdoor space where nature has its place, but which is still private. How does the private relate to the public here? My tour, together with the film, will give you a new perspective on the neighbourhood. We will take a walk, stopping at remarkable places that invite wonder. There are also a number of mysterious things that spark the imagination. Everything is not always as it seems.