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80 Jaar, Reeds – Op de T bij Wim Schippers (2022)

Documentary | 54 minutes
3,14 18 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 54 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Ronald Snijders

Stars: Wim T. Schippers

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80 Jaar, Reeds – Op de T bij Wim Schippers plot

Wim T. Schippers (1942) is an all-rounder: he is a writer, director, actor, radio and TV maker and artist. Many fragments of his work have become legendary. Think, for example, of the Brussels sprout-eating queen Juliana, model Phil Bloom who reads the newspaper naked on TV and thus became the first naked woman on television and the sheepdog play Going to the Dogs. He is regarded as an innovator of art, language and television. In this documentary Ronald Snijders guides the viewer through a richly illustrated overview of Schippers' work. He also visits Wim T. Schippers.

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De filosoof

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Wim T. Schippers is a phenomenon and I've been a fan all my life. I think he can be called a Dadaist (fluxus) and I don't know anyone who can disrupt everything in such a way and also does it in an always intelligent and at the same time entertaining way, resulting in genius nonsense, cheerful chaos and startling art / entertainment. He sometimes shocked, but it was not about the provocation as such, but about extending logic and making what he wanted to make. The philosophy of his art seems to be the denial of any meaning of his art (so not 'what does it represent?' but 'I like it!') and to give a monument to the dull and the banal, now that everything is equally important ('emptiness is also a form').

I agree with kappeuter that Ronald Snijders was the wrong choice: that man is indeed so unfunny and so bad that he more or less ruins this documentary. Wim T. Schippers might have found that funny himself, because stumbling and making things go wrong has become his trademark, but only if Wim T. Schippers would have scripted it would it have become fun and engaging and that is clearly not the case.

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mrklm

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To be honest, a conventional portrait of the idiosyncratic artist Wim T. Schippers is just as unthinkable as a conventional interview with this pioneering all-rounder who, despite his groundbreaking work, is best known to people under 50 as the voice of Ernie from Sesame Street. Ronald Snijders is a great admirer who has delved into the television archives to show snippets of interviews, as well as fleeting moments from legendary programs such as Hoepla and De Fred Haché Show, but also from the exhibition 'Spiegel der Kunsten' that cannot be described with an adjective and high-profile theater shows such as 'Stemmen' and the world-famous 'Going to the Dogs'. There is (fortunately) no common thread and Snijders uses a camera approach that Schippers and his creative partners used in the early 1970s. The tension rises when Snijders actually comes face to face with his idol and it means something that Schippers does not completely disrupt the interview. The respect is clearly mutual and that also applies to this portrait, with which Snijders succeeds in a mission that many consider impossible.

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T.O.

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I thought the shape was well chosen and at times it works quite well. It is a bit short, but it fits fine.

Nice to see that Schippers as a 20-year-old is completely the same in his doings as later in his career.

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