AWAY
57’30”
© 2002-03


Director, production, camera: Su Tomesen
Editing: Harald van de Sanden
Graphic design: Esther van Gameren
Animation: Daniel Dugour
Music a.o.: Poldergeist, C-mon and Kypski
Thank you: Gemeente Utrecht, Mitsubishi Elevators Europe, Apple, All Nippon Airways, Tapes Amsterdam, ’t Hoogt Utrecht.

2006
Streaming festival
2004
Local broadcasting station Omroep Utrecht, Utrecht
Art channel Kunstkanaal, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag
Filmtheatre ’t Hoogt Utrecht
In the collection of the FAMU, the Prague Film Academy
2003
50% beeld, NIM / Montevideo Amsterdam 
Docs for sale, IDFA Amsterdam

AWAY is a double-portrait of two artists: the Dutch Janneke Küpfer in Japan and the Japanese Kyoko Inatome in the Netherlands. The movie shows how a change of environment influences their work and lives. The artists, -models of people who go and live in foreign countries with strange cultures- shift from trying to maintain their identity to integrating the new influences.
The Japanese and Dutch culture differ to such an extend that AWAY shows an extreme image of the process of settling in perfectly strange surroundings.

With this movie I was nominated by the Sandberg Institute for the documentary assignment for a young documentary-maker, by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and NPS television.

Watch the prologue

Watch a key fragment

Watch a fragment with music from Poldergeist

Watch a fragment with music from C-mon and Kypski