Foundation Art and Public Space
artist: Elise Tak
located in: Politiebureau IJsselland,
client: Politie IJsselland
The life of a police officer is always romanticized and distorted by the media. Reality is always violated whether this happens in films, on television, in novels or on the
news. So what would happen if an artist who, in her work, employs a cinematographic angle, is asked to give a cinematic impression of the work of IJsselland’s police force? This question was posed to Elise Tak.
Elise Tak
Red Robbie
Even though Tak’s work is based on principles of filmmaking, she has never actually made one. Instead she visualizes the scripts that she makes for fiction films by using digitally manipulated stills. The actors with whom she works include real people as well as fictional characters who she even provides with a biography. In Tak’s script the police force actually plays the leading role in this adventurous tale that revolves around the fictional character, ‘Rooie Robbie’, a garage owner cum villain who, as Tak explicates, ‘blushes with too much sun/excitement’.
photo: Liesbeth Nieuwenweg
