Okki Poortvliet - Ijswee - Documentary film about community and climate change
Ijswee - Watch the story of an ice skating club, a village and warm winters
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Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet 5 (2021) by Okki PoortvlietGlobal Design Graduate Show
Ijswee - Documentary film about community and climate change
Designed by Okki Poortvliet, 'Ijswee' won the Film Category in the Global Design Graduate Show in collaboration with Gucci 2021.
'Ijswee' is a documentary film about an ice skating club, a village and warm winters. It’s a story about a community with a passion for ice skating and how they deal with climate change.
Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet 9 (2021) by Okki PoortvlietGlobal Design Graduate Show
In the film we follow Oringers, the inhabitants of Odoorn, through the winter. The Oringer all experience in IJswee (longing for ice) in their own way. Christmas tree farmer Manus thinks that we will never be able to skate again and that the winters will disappear.
Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet 10 (2021) by Okki PoortvlietGlobal Design Graduate Show
Treasurer Henk tells about the days of 15 centimeters of ice. Raoul, son of a farmer, had to stop skating in Assen after the ice rink closed, now he keeps an eye on the weather app every day in winter.
Yet they also feel hope, ex-farmer and ex-chairman Jans is confident that there will one day be another Elfstedentocht. His grandson Jeroen, who became a Drents skate champion as a child, is sure that he will stand on the ice as board member in the near future.
Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet 7 (2021) by Okki PoortvlietGlobal Design Graduate Show
Director Okki also experiences 'Ijswee' herself. In her youth she could skate almost every winter and now she has the feeling that the temperature rise melts away a little bit of winter every year.
You will also see the Ice Counter (Rafael van der Ziel), who builds ice sculptures and drinks frozen milk. You see the Drenthe countryside change with the weather.
Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet 11 (2021) by Okki PoortvlietGlobal Design Graduate Show
You see animations, archive images and you hear the mysterious sounds of 'Ijswee' in the music of Wietse de Haan. And there are two trumpeters who, with their music, welcome the winter and bid it farewell again.
"My name is Okki Poortvliet. I am interested in making all different things, that’s why I studied Illustration/Animation and Time Based Design at Minerva art academy."
Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet 12 (2021) by Okki PoortvlietGlobal Design Graduate Show
"I have a head that thinks a lot and hands that love to make a lot. My head thinks about world it lives in. My hands love to hold pencils, be covered in ink and cut film material. My hands and head like to work together exchanging ideas and forms."
"I love to expand my knowledge and experience. My head does that by looking around, my hands by touching a new material. The result: films, animations, drawings, prints, installations and everything in between." - Okki Poortvliet
FIRST NAME: OKKI
LAST NAME: POORTVLIET
UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE: MINERVA ART ACADEMY- HANZE
COURSE / PROGRAM: DESIGN BA: ANIMATION & ILLUSTRATION + TIME BASED DESIGN
GRADUATED: 2021
SPECIALISMS: FILM / PRINTMAKING / DRAWING
WEBSITE: Ijswee by Okki Poortvliet
