Films made by
ReRun Productions

The Earth is Crying

Five hundred years after Columbus, four Native Americans 'discover' the Netherlands and visit a nuclear power station, an anthropological museum, a zoo and a peace camp. With Leslie Marmon Silko, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Bill Wahpepah and John Graham.

1986, 75 minutes, Dutch, English

It is Killing the Clouds

A Confrontation between Aboriginal Dreamtime and Westerners' Dream of Progress. In 1988, non-Aboriginal Australia celebrates 200 years of European settlement. Aborigines rally in protest, but their voice is lost in the media reports. What prevents Westerners from understanding Aboriginal culture? Where did the two grow apart? The film suggests that a major difference is that the Western tradition disenchanted nature. Man placed himself outside and above nature. A new work ethic evolved, which holds the belief that 'labour sets one free'. Rather than nature, technology is our new realm of the sacred. As French philosopher Jacques Ellul says in the film: 'Technology is intolerant, it only accepts itself. All myth, all wisdom, is being eliminated.' It is Killing the Clouds is a poetic quest for meaning in our time.

1992, 150 minutes, Dutch, English

link to film subtitles (Dutch and English)

The Betrayal by Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul

"Technology forces us to go faster and faster. One does not know where one goes. The only thing that matters is the speed." French philosopher Jacques Ellul has analyzed modern Western society on basis of the premise that technology has become an autonomous, all-determining factor.

In 1950, Ellul finished his manuscript La Technique ou l'enjeu du siècle (The Technological Society), his seminal analysis of the way technology shapes every aspect of society. As contemporary thinker, he was strongly influenced by Kierkegaard, Marx and Barth. After a life, in which he wrote close to fifty books, Ellul died in the summer of 1994, at the age of 82.

The team of ReRun Producties visited Ellul in 1990. During five subsequent days, long interview sessions were held with him in his old mansion in Pessac. The Betrayal by Technology is one of the very few existing filmed recordings of Jacques Ellul speaking.

1992, 54 minutes, French, Dutch, English

Twijfel aan Europa ('Questioning Europe')

Ton Lemaire is a Dutch anthropologist and philosopher who left the Netherlands in the 1980's to start a new way of life in southern France as organic farmer. Ton Lemaire lives almost completely of his own grown food. He uses hardly any mechanical or electrical facilities. In this film, Lemaire explains why it was impossible for him to stay in the Netherlands and what his view is on the current ecological and spiritual crisis of the West. Western man, believing in perpetual progress, has set all his hopes on the future. And because of that, he has sacrificed much knowledge and many traditions. This means, that in case the industrial system would collapse, he could be standing with empty hands. For Lemaire it is of utmost importance that archaic cultural elements, which have been set aside by the dynamic of progress, are regained in time, to help correct the course our culture is taking at the moment.

1996, 50 minutes, Dutch

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The Call of the Mountain
Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement

On 1500 metres above sea level, on the slope of the mountain Hallingskarvet, stands "Tvergastein', the cabin of Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess. In his life he has spent nearly 12 years in this hut, where he wrote several books and essays on philosophy and ecology. In this film, Naess tells about the concept of 'deep ecology', which was first introduced by him in 1973. One of the basic tenets of deep ecology is that nature has a value in itself, apart from its possible use value to humans. Next to being a famous mountaineer, Naess has been a longtime activist in the environmental movement.

He gives an inspiring account of his participation in blockades to prevent the Alta river in northern Norway (the area of the Sami, an indigenous people) from being dammed. With contributions by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Bill Devall, George Sessions and Harold Glasser. 1997, 50 minutes, English link to film subtitles (only in English)

De Vloek van Pavlov ('Pavlov's Curse')

In 1998 ReRun released its first feature film. The theme of this film is the conflict between a nature park officer and a quaint farmer about the creation of new wetlands so that the otter can be re-introduced in the Netherlands.

An exploration of differences between a scientific and a spiritual relationship with nature.  1998, 180 minutes, Dutch

Cooperation projects

Oorverdovende stilte ('Deafening silence')

With Kink Productions. Documentary about the impact of low-level flying exercises of the Dutch Air force above the Innu, an indigenous people of hunters in the Canadian provinces Newfoundland and Quebec.

1997, 45 minutes, Dutch and English