The Procrastinators

Postponing, fleeing, twisting and turning, in short...Procrastinating!

16 nov 2010
21 nov 2010
  • NIMk
  • Keizersgracht 264 , 1016 EV Amsterdam

If I just do this first and then that, then I can really put my mind to what I need to do afterwards. Because that's what I want! But not yet, because first I have to do this... Procrastinators: what on earth keeps them so busy? Why is it, that the one thing they really want to do, really want to achieve is experienced as a 'must' and will therefore be postponed and put off as long as possible?

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The Procrastinators - bron

The procrastinators is a series of eleven short, minimalist 'animated' documentaries of people who talk associatively about their creative process and the role that postponing, fleeing and wriggling out of things plays in it. All these artists are successful and productive, but they suffer from different neurotic types of procrastination. They sleep, drink, smoke, move things or clean up the house. They make plans and lists or go on the internet in search of random information for 'research purposes'. They get in the way of themselves: get lost in distractions, but simultaneously there seems to be no other way of getting the work done. Only when this behaviour gets really tedious, can they find the motivation to actually get to work. The struggle with deadlines and goals, the doubts and fears are perhaps necessary: without the lolling around, no last minute focus.

Lernert Engelberts (writer and director) and Sander Plug (designer and artist) have been working together , because they thought working alone was boring, that is, if they were in the first place. They create adverts, films and video works with strong concepts and visually simple forms. The results are aesthetic, intriguing and often humorous in a somewhat villainous way.

For this series Lernert and Sander asked film-makers, designers, writers, artists, actors and other creative people to reflect on their work process. Their self-questioning, tragicomic or hilarious monologues will be supported visually by a still life of coloured pencils, empty tables, pieces of paper, wine glasses, cigarettes and coffee against a white background. Now and again something happens, something moves or falls over.

With: Frank Houtappels, Arjan Ederveen, Alex Klaassen, Coco Schrijber, Micha Wertheim, Bert Kommerij, Martin C. de Waal, Aux Raus, Michael Schaap, Pieter Kramer and Cindy Hoetmer.

Producer: Wendela Scheltema for limboland.tv