A man on a leather sofa surrounded by papers, seen from above

Carta Folien

Seen from above: a man, a sofa and every page he wrote this year.

A short about a writer who lays his draft out on the floor to find its order. Shot straight down so the pages read like a map, and graded to keep the lamplight warm and the rest of the room in shadow.

Teun shot the whole film from the ceiling, which left the grade one job: keep a floor covered in paper readable as a map.

Warm in the middle, dark at the edges

The lamp sits by the sofa and everything outside its pool falls away. I pushed the edges darker than the camera saw them, so the pages nearest the light read first.

Area

What I did

Why

Lamp pool

Kept it warm

It’s where he works

Pages

Lifted a little

They carry the story

Room edges

Pushed to black

Nothing to read there

Paper is whiter than you think

Printer paper under a tungsten lamp turns orange fast. I held it just off white, so it still looks like paper and not like the lamp.

Read the whole story

Client

Korhonen Films

Client

Korhonen Films

Category

Short film

My role

Colour

My role

Colour

Year

2024

Year

2024

Running time

0:18

Running time

0:18

Credits

Director

Teun Bakker

Director

Teun Bakker

Production

Northbound Pictures

Production

Northbound Pictures

Producer

Jonas Wilde

Producer

Jonas Wilde

Cinematography

Iver Brandt

Cinematography

Iver Brandt

Editor

Sami Kader

Editor

Sami Kader

Colour

Noel Aydin

Colour

Noel Aydin

Sound design

Kiln Audio

Sound design

Kiln Audio

Call time

00:00

in Rotterdam

Booking from February 2027

© 2026 Noel Aydin

Call time

00:00

in Rotterdam

Booking from February 2027

© 2026 Noel Aydin

Call time

00:00

in Rotterdam

Booking from February 2027

© 2026 Noel Aydin

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