deNartiest 2005 -2013
In 2005 Dirk starts working of what will become Être. Together with renate Scheelen - aother student of Etienne Decroux' Mime Corporelle he develops a performance based on a combat between 2 man.
Être premeires in Brussels and is performed in Brussels, Antwerp, Ankara, Istanbul, Aarschot and Doz, in 2005 and 2006. Meanwhile Dirk starts working on the ideas for Drift, a film he wants to realise together with Benny Vandendriessche. The find supprt to develop the scenario, and the head for the US for preliminary shoot sin the desert there. The budget for the film is found and shooting start in 2007, mostly in Romania.
A Belgian couple waits in an empty hotel in the Carpathian mountains. She suffers from a lingering illness. He helps her find her peace. Left alone, he escapes reality and starts to wander. The film explores his quest for salvation on a mythical journey through a barren wasteland. Fighting his memories, the drifting man chooses not to speak and to loose himself in an animal-like and primitive existence. As the past reveals itself, insanity sets in. Slowly, he disappears as well.
winner Fipresci Award at Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2013
nomination Flash Forward competition at Busan International Film Festival 2013 in South Korea
screenings at the filmfestivals of Gent (BE), San Francisco (US), Prague (CZ), Vilnius (LT), Tofifest (PL), Leeuwarden (NL)