a documentary by DIGNA SINKE
produced by SNG Film / Studio Nieuwe Gronden and NPS

website: www.tiengemeten.com

The island of Tiengemeten is only 20 kilometres south of Rotterdam. It is the last remaining island in the south-western delta area of the Netherlands. Once it was a sandbank on which reeds and brushwood grew. Once 700 hectares of fertile agricultural ground with six farms.
In the 1990s, a decision was made to let Tiengemeten return to nature.
There would be no room for farmers anymore.

TIENGEMETEN 2001 - 2006 shows how the landscape changes slowly but surely. The field make way for derelict land. The old barns that have lost their purpose start to decay.
A detailed plan for nature development is ready, but has not been put into practice. Through long time there is uncertainty about the financial situation. One farmer is left on the island with a lease that has not yet run out. As long as he is there, no start can be made with the work. At last he moves. Work starts.

scenario & direction Digna Sinke
camera Jan Wich / Goert Giltaij / Maarten Kramer / Marc Homs / Peter Brugman / Paul van den Bos
sound Tom d’Angremond / Sander den Broeder / Menno Euwe / Erik Langhout
music Fokke van Saane
editing Albert Elings
sound design and dubbing mix Marc Lizier / Klink
grading Martijn de Haas
produced by SNG film & NPS

2006
80 min. & tv version 58 min.
Digibeta + DVD

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