BLOODY MONDAYS & STRAWBERRY PIES

Bored? Why would I be worried that my life could be full of emptiness? Are we killing time – and why? Watch Lena, a young singer-songwriter and worker in a pie factory, a Wall Street stockbroker, a desert nomad, the last living female WW2 spy, a painter-philosopher who has been painting time for the last 42 years and the first schoolshooter in history who, at the age of 16, shot eleven people: "I don't like those bloody mondays". John Malkovich gives voice to the utterly bored human, quoting Dostoyevsky and American Psycho. We are afraid of being bored and fight it by all means. But Coco Schrijber pleads passionately for profound boredom as a solution for the "nothingness" of our existence. Her sense for convincing images, real soundscapes and eye-opening editing is astounding. "How many people in the world are like you? Does anyone ever really see anyone else?" The answers are right there in the silent Sahara of our mind. And young Lena sings self-confidently "I’m bored today, wouldn’t like it any other way, nothing left to say."

Golden Calf Award 2008 at Netherlands Film Festival Utrecht