The confronting, intriguing, uncomfortable, provocative, philosophical, aesthetic, realistic, hard-hitting, resigned, disturbing, and breathtaking moving images of Eisinga. Is that film by Jeroen Eisinga showing? We are often asked that question. A small flock of sheep stands close together on a sheet of ice. It seems as if the sheep are seeking each other's warmth in the freezing cold. It is snowing and storming. They stand around a hole in the ice. In the hole, the head of a dead sheep just pokes out above the cold water. Drowned or frozen. As if this dead sheep is a harbinger of what awaits the other sheep. Anyone who follows one of the sheep for an hour sees how this sheep moves aimlessly through the flock. Time passes, and death lurks in the hole. With this film, Eisinga defies the boundaries of hopelessness and a possible destiny. It certainly won't make you cheerful, but it is impressive and overwhelming. The film lasts nearly an hour, almost a moving painting. Nightfall aligns with all of Eisinga's other films. Shocking and provocative, yet always reflective. As an artist, Eisinga does not spare himself. He pushes his work to the limit, and preferably even further. He seeks the extreme boundaries of his capabilities, both physically and mentally. If the soul exists, then Eisinga strikes the chords of the soul with his film Nightfall.
Jeroen Eisinga (Delft, 1966).
