Zebraproject, Het

Jeroen Eisinga has travelled to Kenya to make an art film, capturing the rotting process of a dead zebra. To him, studying a shrivelling zebra on a black-and-white chequered floor involves romance without passion, and a fascination with dissecting and analysing things that is so strong that morals and ethics are irrelevant for a short period of time. The film is set in the Great African Rift Valley in Kenya. We are at the Delamere Estates, where Jeroen Eisinga is put up with Lord Delamere, a British colonial Lord whose family has been managing a country estate, which is as large as Belgium, for generations. Jeroen will stay here for four months to carry out his art project. In Kenya, we witness the hunting and shooting of the zebra. It is laid out on an elevated floor. Jeroen crawls under the floor to cut a hole in the zebra through which the flies can enter and hollow out the animal. Defective technology, lack of money, culture clashes, incompetence and corruption must be overcome to shoot sufficient footage for a film of roughly 8 minutes. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)