Dennis Alink
| Dennis Alink | |
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 UnknownBroodSetFoto.jpg Dennis Alink on set in 2015 | |
| Born | Dennis Anthonius Joseph Alink 30 July 1989 Oldenzaal, Netherlands |
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| 📆 Years active | 2010-present |
Dennis Alink (Oldenzaal (born 30 July 1989) is a Dutch filmmaker and film critic.
Alink began his education at the Amsterdam film academy in 2009. In 2010 he began the webseries Midnight Movie Review, in which he discussed movies and interviewed members of the film industry. Following 2011 he became active as the programmer for various horror- and cult showings.
Since 2013 he can be seen as film expert in the Dutch TV program Kanaal 12 and is often a guest on Dutch radio and television to talk about films. In 2014 his first feature-length documentary Sluizer Speaks premièred at the IDFA in Amsterdam. The film follows the final years of the life of the filmmaker George Sluizer, as he attempts to finish his incompleted film Dark Blood.
Since 2014 Alink has been working on a documentary about the Dutch rock 'n' roll singer Herman Brood. The film, Unknown Brood, (international title My Suicide for You) premièred at the IDFA with positive responses from both critics and audiences and got selected in the Dutch competition and the music competition.[1]
He is currently working on a documentary about the glam-metal band the Rectum Raiders.
Rollercoaster-Documentary[edit]
Together with cinematographer/writer Thomas van der Gronde, Alink developed a new approach to documentary-filmmaking. Inspired by an American approach to filmmaking and books on screenwriting they started writing screenplays and develop graphic filmplans to be able to control the flow, the emotion and the rhythm of a film. This way, without their documentary-subjects noticing, they could change lighting and locations to set the mood for the scene that is about to take place. An important aspect of this is that the situation remains 100% documentary (with no acting on the part of the maincharacters) but with the mood and locations of the scene being adapted to what the filmmaker thinks is going to happen. It was impossible for Alink to use this technique on Sluizer Speaks because of the extraordinary circumstances regarding that production, so he first film he used it on was Unknown Brood. In this film the interviews and documentary-scenes compliment the pace, sound and atmosphere of the archive-material used. For example; in one of the newly shot scenes in the Paradiso, Amsterdam one of the main-characters steps into the surround sound of a historic recording in that same room. In other situations the lights during interviews change with the mood of the story of the maincharacter being told and forming a same atmosphere with the archive being intercut. This all happens in relation to the bigger storyline being told; all scenes shot are there for the purpose of keeping the storyline rolling like most fiction-films (in contrast with most documentaries who are informative or observative). [2] [3]
Van der Gronde and Alink are currently developing this technique so they can exclude archive and include new stage-performances, for their films Goin' Rectal about metal-band the Rectum Raiders (set for release in february 2018) and The Final Curtain about dutch comedian Freek de Jonge for late 2018.
Filmography[edit]
- 2014: Sluizer Speaks
- 2016: Unknown Brood
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Dennis Alink on IMDb
- Geoffrey MacNab: Alink to Sluizer
- Interview: Dennis Alink, Dutch film director and critic
- Bono working with Unknown Brood documentary
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