https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3FshelNmjE

On the 22nd of July, the warmest day of the Dutch summer in 2017, we decided to go to an area that we know well, the Schinkelsluis. Our art school used to be close by and for a short but important part of our student lives, we used to walk around there every day, morning, noon, evening and sometimes in the middle of the night.

It was around 19:00 and David Djindjikhachvili set the camera and started filming the boats that were coming in and out, waiting for their turn.

We started fantasizing and projecting all kinds of scenario’s about the people on the boats, the yachts… young couples, old couples, a student party, a floating bar, kids in their early adolescence, all kinds of combinations of all kinds of social levels.

We watched them rising and descending, while the water level was adjusting every time.

Sometimes the sluice was completely full with boats, but we noticed hardly any interaction between the people sailing. Gezelligheid was to remain within the boats, just like the water levels of Amsterdam are to remain within the channels of the city.