12th(2010)
Later We Care
Claire PIJMAN, Piet OOMES
- The Netherlands
- 2009
- 56min
- HD
- color
- Documentary
SYNOPSIS
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2009
After her husband passed away, Jeane Pijman is left with a house with a family doctor’s practice in Tilburg, that’s too big for her. Her two daughters decide to move her to Amsterdam, where they live. In Amsterdam, she lives at first in the house of her daughter Claire, but Claire finds it hard to combine the care for her mother with the care for her family and her work. When two doors down the street a house is put up for sale, Jeane moves in there. Her physical and mental decline becomes more and more apparent. When permanent care at home appears to be an impossibility, her daughters decide that a nursing home is the only solution.
Jean has spent all her life as a doctor and raised five wonderful sons and daughters with her husband. With her husband gone, she spends her old age with a deteriorating mind and body. Her two daughters move her to Amsterdam to be closer to them, but trying to live their lives in addition to taking care of their aging mother begins to takes its toll. Later We Care illustrates how a mother who was once meant everything in the world becomes smaller and how she is sent off, showing that ‘motherhood’ is a story of daughters, as well as mothers. (Jay SOHN)
PROGRAM NOTE
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2009
Synopsis
After her husband passed away, Jeane Pijman is left with a house with a family doctor’s practice in Tilburg, that’s too big for her. Her two daughters decide to move her to Amsterdam, where they live. In Amsterdam, she lives at first in the house of her daughter Claire, but Claire finds it hard to combine the care for her mother with the care for her family and her work. When two doors down the street a house is put up for sale, Jeane moves in there. Her physical and mental decline becomes more and more apparent. When permanent care at home appears to be an impossibility, her daughters decide that a nursing home is the only solution.
Program Note
Jean has spent all her life as a doctor and raised five wonderful sons and daughters with her husband. With her husband gone, she spends her old age with a deteriorating mind and body. Her two daughters move her to Amsterdam to be closer to them, but trying to live their lives in addition to taking care of their aging mother begins to takes its toll. Later We Care illustrates how a mother who was once meant everything in the world becomes smaller and how she is sent off, showing that ‘motherhood’ is a story of daughters, as well as mothers. (Jay SOHN)
Director
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Claire PIJMANClaire PIJMAN
(born in 1965, Netherlands) worked on Dinner with the President, Roofs on Delhi, Don’t ask why and worked with director Annick Vroom, with whom she made the, in NY awarded dance film, R.I.P. Recently she shot the feature fiction Jermal (directors Ravi Bharwani and Rayya Makarim) on location in Indonesia. Later We Care is her most recent documentary. The film premiered at IDFA 2009 and will be shown on Dutch television in july, 2010 by the IKON.
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Piet OOMESPiet OOMES
(born in 1965, Netherlands) directed a documentary film entitled Childhood (2005). He established Docu Shot with Claire Pijman. Major works are Later We Care (2009), Rumah saya (2009) and others.
Credit
- Cinematography Claire PIJMAN, Piet OOMES
- Editor Danniel DANNIEL, Claire PIJMAN, Piet OOMES
- Music Fonsa ten VELDE
- Sound Claire PIJMAN, Piet OOMES
