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  Tjarda Sixma & Michiel Vijselaar
Hochzeit Im Schnee
  Netherlands 1986
Videotape, 4:40, colour
'Hochzeit im Schnee' by Tjarda Sixma and Michiel Vijselaar is a short story like sowithhing in a peep-show. It is an apparently cliched little story placed against the background of a small Alpine village. The trace of a satirical undertone manifests itself through a painstaking production, worked out down to the last details. Apparently more can go wrong at a wedding in a wintry mountain landscape than anywhere else on earth. The familiar motif of the bridegroom arriving almost too late for the ceremony is handled here too, but on skis the victim is able to make it just in time, to the great relief of the bride and her father. The abundance of folkloristic and kitschy features suggests that this production is not exactly a plea in favour of the bourgeois institution of marriage.

Erik Quint

Scenario, light, sets, costumes: Tjarda Sixma, Michiel Vijselaar, Camera: Matthijs Lombaers, Editing: Michiel Vijselaar, Sound: Bert Dijkman, Production: Stichting Shaffy Theater, With: Tjarda Sixma, Bertie Sixma, Jo Vonk, Michiel Vijselaar, Henk Vijselaar