STABAT MATER

Short dance film (2005), NL, HD-CAM, colour, 3'20'' min

  • Writers: Rob Schröder & Mariecke van der Linden
  • Director: Rob Schröder
  • Music & song: Mariecke van der Linden
  • Producer: Phanta Film in co-op with Stichting Allerzielen and NTR

In All Souls, a collection of 16 Short films, Dutch filmmakers respond to the polemic that occured in the Netherlands after Dutch director Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered in 2004.

In Stabat Mater a woman frees herself, while singing, from endless meters of fabric entangled around her body. Her white naked body reveals itself as a symbol against oppression and fundamentalism.
She sings a part from Stabat Mater, a Latin liturgical text, describing the lament of the mother Mary.