MARIEKE ELZERMAN
MARIEME, MARIEKE, film, 21' 31'' (USB stick), colophon, set of 4 photographs, each 9.5 x 9.5 cm. /3.7 x 3.7 inches, text by Kees van Gelder (Dutch/English), signed and numbered certificate, USB stick inscribed with the text MARIEME, MARIEKE (front side) + Marieke Elzerman 2018 (back side), edition 13 + 2 AP's, signed and numbered certificate, 2018
Presented in a linen box. Published in cooperation with GALERIE VAN GELDER, Amsterdam
€ 420,-
front side linen box
USB stick with inscribed text
"Marieme / Marieke"
A new film titled "Marieme / Marieke" (2018) by Marieke Elzerman is of a natural
beauty. The script is elementary: two girls of just no more teener decide to get
to know each other better via WhatsApp. One studies and lives in Ghent (Belgium)
and the other lives amidst her family in Dakar (Senegal). Both film their direct
surrounding in a light-hearted and almost uneasy manner. Marieme is more defiant
and expressive, while Marieke is more reflective and aloof. That brings on that
one challenges the other to step more into the open and to make selfies. No
doubt there are contrasts in what is registered, but the differences are not
that striking and that makes this film into a factual documenting of two
equivalent environments of places of birth, without an underlying
social-critical undertone. The latter makes this debut film friendly and human.
At the end of the film a warm gesture by Marieke is shown. Two individual
youngsters come closer to each other, yet simultaneously one becomes aware of a
calm and more timid attitude to life on one continent and a more carpe diem
attitude on the other. More than anything else, these opposite attitudes seem to
become crucial for the rest of their life.
In "Marieme / Marieke" (duration: 21' 31") the individual experience of one's
behaviour and own existence is the heart of the film and could therefore be
called a film on existentialism made in 2018.
Marieke Elzerman (born in Amsterdam, 1996) studies at the film academy KASK in
Ghent and one of her tutors is Renzo Martens, renown for his film "Enjoy
Poverty".