Private Project

GAT (hole)

Robbie lost two fingers because of fireworks. I ask Robbie how it feels to not have fingers. He says: not everything feels like something else. Explain to me what chocolate tastes like. I can tell you what it doesn’t taste like: not like a pile of wood, not like a body of water, not like sand.
‘Gat’ is about movement, about bodies, about a feeling. It is about what you cannot see, but what is there. ‘Gat’ is about what you can never address, but what is principally here to make it exist.

  • Thomas Bos
    Director
    the Ginger Connection, Lijf, Leather
  • Erik Bos
    Choreography
    the Ginger Connection, Lijf, Leather
  • onefivefive (155)
    Producer
    Lijf, Leather
  • Sam van Eenbergen
    Sounddesign
    Leather
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Dance, film, short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 51 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 25, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Dutch
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Nederlandse Dans Dagen
    Maastricht
    Netherlands
    October 3, 2020
    Online Premiere, world premiere
Director Biography - Thomas Bos

Thomas Bos (1988) obtained his bachelors degree Digital Video Design in 2013 at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht. He started (break)dancing with iLL Skill Squad at age 12. During his studies he did an internship for multimedia artist Oliver Laric in Berlin.

Before, during and after his studies Thomas has made autonomous videowork aswell as videowork for others including work for 155 (onefivefive), DOX, MAAS, de Krachtcentrale and Stukafest. This work has been shown among other places at Centraal Museum Utrecht, CBKU, Muziektheater Amsterdam and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.
The work has been nominated for the Best of HKU award, ONMDF competition and the Piet Bakker Prijs. His dancefilm 'the Ginger Connection' (2014), made with his brother Erik Bos, was shown at filmfestivals in Turkey, Sweden, Romania and Portugal after it's premiere at the Cinedance filmfestival in Amsterdam.
Thomas is currently a dancer and artistic director at the dancecollective 155 (onefivefive) alongside his brother Erik.
The work created with 155 (onefivefive) has, apart from nationwide theatretours, been shown at the Dutch Dance Days, Lowlands, the Parade, Julidans, Cadance, Sziget (Hungary), Lunga (Iceland), Artscape (South Africa) and Freetown Music Festival (Sierra Leone). In 2013 they were awarded the Dox talent award and in 2014 they won the André Gingras award.

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Director Statement

I am interested in movement, humor and authenticity. 
Movement is nice because the body doesn't lie. Agnes de Mille once said: “The truest expression of a people is in it’s dance and in it’s music. Bodies never lie.” 
Video or film is the best way for me to really show something (movement for example); words are often used to hide stuff, images are used to show stuff. 
I like to tell something with humor. There is a misconception that equates solemnity with seriousness, and humor with the lack of seriousness. Something that is solemn could totally lack seriousness, and something humorous doesn't necessarily lack seriousness. 
When someone is really laughing, you don't need to know why. You can feel someone is laughing for real and this makes you laugh too.