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Erotic Tales

Cast

Gene Bervoets, Ellen ten Damme, Martijn Bosman

Team

Director
Jos Stelling

Script
Jos Stelling

Director of Photography
Goert Giltaij

Editor
Bert Rijkelijkhuizen

Sound
Dolby SR

Music
Hunga!

Production Designer
Gert Brinkers

Producer
Regina Ziegler

TV Editor
Karin Zahn, WDR

Info

Broadcaster
WDR

Genre
Short Feature

Format
35mm; colour; 1:1,85

Length
28 min.

Awards
GRAND PRIX Mediawave Festival 2001, Hungary Nomination BANFF TV Festival Short Film Category, 2001, Canada

The Gas Station

2000

Background
Attending some international film festivals can be a painless chore for Dutch director Jos Stelling. When he goes to the Riga Arsenals festival (he’s been there twice), he is greeted on the street by fans and admirers - after all, he had been honored with a retrospective tribute there as far back as 1988. The same goes for St. Petersburg: back in 1997, when his Waiting Room (1995) was awarded both the Golden Gryphon Award and the Public’s Prize, that double-decker recognition had come close on the heels of the Golden Calf at Utrecht and the Prix de Presse at Montreux. Indeed, the world-wide honors showered on The Waiting Room prompted Regina Ziegler to offer Jos Stelling carte blanche for a second Erotic Tale - with an option to go for broke and round the series out to a feature-length trilogy.
Two factors are worth considering when debating the pros and cons of a Jos Stelling Erotic Tale. Primary and foremost, he doesn’t lean on a word of specious dialogue to tell his story. That waiting room at a railway station, for instance, attracts per se a plethora of oddballs, eccentrics, bumpkins, and other bizarre types familiar to the human species, to say nothing of the games of one-upman-ship that enliven and animate this groundling arena. Add to this the presence of Belgian mime actor Eugène Bervoets, and you have the archetype of the bravura peacock macho who will scale a wall or walk off a cliff if necessary to demonstrate his manly wiles with the opposite sex.
Watch ten Damme and Bervoets in action in The Gas Station - and you get the point. What better place to continue a flirt than that friendly oasis offering relief - and promise - after a fatiguing traffic-jam on the expressway?

Synopsis
An acknowledged master of the short sans dialogue, Jos Stelling won a bundle of awards for THE WAITING ROOM at festivals in Holland, Russia, and Switzerland. And if you thought that richly inventive spoof of the leering macho in God’s Little Acre, the crowded waiting room of your local railway station, was one of the luniest Erotic Tales ever made, then buckle your seat belt for a ride down Life‘s Great Battlefield: the expressway during rush hour! Take the boredom of the slow lane, add the spice of one-upmanship, top it off with a delightful girl-boy butting match, and what’s missing? A layover at the next gas station.
Jos Stelling - Director
Jos Stelling, born 1945, made his debut as a director with MARIKEN VAN NIEUMEGHEN in 1974. His features THE ILLUSIONIST (1983) and THE POINTSMAN (1986) both won GOLDEN CALVES, the Dutch Film Award. He lives and works in Utrecht, where he also runs a cafe, restaurant and art house cinema.

Filmographie:
2000 The Gas Station
1999 No Trains No Planes
1995 De Vliegende Hollander
1995 De Wachtkamer
1986 De Wisselwachter
1984 De Illusionist
1981 De Pretenders
1977 Rembrandt fecit 1669
1975 Elkerlyc
1974 Mariken van Nieumeghen
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