1: What the film is all about

What is the film about?

After he recited a poem, Rutger Kopland was once asked: What is that poem really all about? His response was to read the poem again. So yes, I think 'what's it all about' is always the wrong question. A question like that results from all those Hollywood movies in which film is often only a spoon used to feed the story to the viewer. But in the best case, film was chosen as the medium because there was no other way to communicate the message. Don't tell them, show them! If it could be done with words, it would be a lot cheaper and simpler to put it down on paper and publish it. 'The sea that thinks' has something to say in images. Don't read this; go and watch it, the film is primarily an experience! Words do not communicate experiences; the word 'dog' doesn't bite.

My film does however show a story with a beginning and an end, because I certainly didn't want to make an experimental film. I am not interested in that. My film anticipates the EXPERIENCES the viewer will have WHILE watching. The viewer keeps falling for it. He is deceived and taken for a ride. And I hope and expect him to enjoy it. Myself, I always think that is exciting and humorous. Not really knowing what you are watching. Is it a documentary? Is it fiction? Or is it real? And what is that: 'real'? How do I observe? What do I assume to be true? What do I think I see? How do I know for sure that what I see is true?

So, to answer your question, the film is about you.

Part 2: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261277/board/nest/191269527