Wanneer de Ruimte Spreekt

When familiar spaces begin to turn against us, cracks start to appear — in walls, in systems, and in our sense of certainty. These films search for stability in a reality that’s beginning to shift.

Between Heaven and Halls – Olivia Mos

Amid grand museums filled with history and art, unexplainable things begin to happen. Power outages, footsteps in the night, alarms going off, and doors that seem to have a will of their own. Is there a rational explanation, or is something unseen watching over these spaces?

Weerbarstig – Wouter Klinkenberg

This film follows my father Jan (73) and me, the filmmaker, during a short visit home from England, where I’ve lived for several years. The house I grew up in is falling apart. Cracks run across the walls, and the sagging structure leans under the thatched roof.

The house is built near the largest underground gas storage facility in Europe: UGS Norg. Its increasingly intensive use causes ground movement — the earth rises and falls with the pumping of gas. Our old house is no longer able to withstand it. Over 17,000 people in the region have reported damage, but the companies behind the gas storage continue to deny any correlation.

And if there’s one thing my father can’t stand, it’s injustice. So, he begins a bitter fight against the two oil giants behind the facility: Shell and ExxonMobil.