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**Below a film review**



DEW (Dauw)

Directed by: Ben Jurna & Carrien Dijkstra

Running time: 72 minutes

Genre: Documentary in Dutch with English subtitles

In a tribute to the late Hans Essenberg (cameraman, cinematographer and actor) who began this project of filming the internationally acclaimed artist Marc Mulders, is a film that takes an up-close look at his fascinating Dutch art. After the death of Hans Essenberg, Ben Jurna and Carrien Dijkstra took on the task of making a full length movie honoring both men.

Born in Tilburg, Netherlands in 1958, Marc Mulders has been known for years for his expressionist oil artwork is captured on film in his creative environment. His canvases, past and present gives a sense of his power and talent with his sensual paintings of flowers and wild animals that is painted from live subjects. He sometimes stands on thorns and sharp objects that he is working while in his motivationIly mode. I was extremely impressed with his majestic stained glass work Een Tuin van Glas (A Garden of Glass) from De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. Housed in 15 Dutch museums, this documentary examines his work as the public gazes in amazement. What troubles me about the famous artist is that he paints flowers when they are in bloom yet in the autumn and winter he turns his attention to dead rabbits,deer and butchered cattle.

This film shows a personal interview by art journalist Hans den Hartog with Marc Mulders as he asks what motivates him. Yet, Mulders complexed feelings on spirituality versus the TV world (fake reality) troubles him. Marc Mulders born a Catholic, found himself left attending church alone once his parents stopped going. As he became an adult people spoke of him as "The Catholic Artist".


Filmmakers Jurna and Dijkstra not only take a journey into Mulders life but they give a picturesque view of serine background and backdrops of clouds and comforting landscape to set the tone and theme for the viewer to ease into a fine documentary that is very enlightening.