Toen zag ik Java steeds kleiner worden. Herinneringen aan de overtocht deel II.
Short movie (17 min) 2016
Client: Indisch Herinneringscentrum

In the years between 1945 and 1965 during the aftermath of the second world war, the starting of a new war, the final days of Dutch colonialism and the birth of a new nation, over 300,000 people left Indonesia. Having the Dutch nationality large groups of Indo-Europeans arrived in Holland during that time both voluntarily and involuntarily. The journey was most commonly undertaken with thousands of people on large converted cargo ships. A month at sea. A timeframe of the Dutch-Indonesian repatriation history we know so little about.

In this movie four people with different backgrounds (Dutch, Indo-Dutch, Indonesian-Chinese and Moluccan) share their (childhood) memories of their daily lives on the boat and how this ‘being between’ countries still resonates in their lives today.