De Hoop De Movie
De Hoop, een Nomadische Tuin
De Hoop, een Nomadische Tuin
Presented at
︎ Le Fresnoy
︎ Cultuur Op/Til
Co-produced by
︎ Werktank
Together with
Marie Malingreau
Zoe Brennan
Laurens Mariën
︎ Le Fresnoy
︎ Cultuur Op/Til
Co-produced by
︎ Werktank
Together with
Marie Malingreau
Zoe Brennan
Laurens Mariën
De Hoop de Movie
This video reflects on DE HOOP, a nomadic garden, an artistic project by Katinka de Jonge, Laurens Mariën, Zoë Brennan, and Marie Malingreau, developed in Sint-Maartensdal at the invitation of Werktank.
Through interviews with people who took part in the project — residents, volunteers, partners, and collaborating organizations — the video traces the trajectory of DE HOOP in all its facets. What began as the idea of a city festival gradually transformed into a nomadic community garden, where working together, caring, learning, and uncertainty became central.
The conversations reveal how a seemingly simple question — how to make French fries with mayonnaise entirely from scratch — unfolded into a collective inquiry into production, collaboration, and responsibility. Seeds, soil, water, and sun marked the starting point, but time, labor, knowledge, failure, and dependency soon emerged as equally decisive elements.
Rather than focusing solely on outcomes, the video also makes visible what proved difficult. Practical obstacles, the limits of self-sufficiency, uneven distributions of time and energy, and questions around care and accountability all surface.
The video evolved into a space where questions were enacted rather than answered: what does it mean to share land? How can care be practiced collectively? How close — or how distant — are we from the origins of what we eat every day?
This video invites viewers to look back without fixing conclusions, leaving room for ambiguity, contradiction, and open-endedness. The project continues to resonate through memories, experiences, and insights.
Through interviews with people who took part in the project — residents, volunteers, partners, and collaborating organizations — the video traces the trajectory of DE HOOP in all its facets. What began as the idea of a city festival gradually transformed into a nomadic community garden, where working together, caring, learning, and uncertainty became central.
The conversations reveal how a seemingly simple question — how to make French fries with mayonnaise entirely from scratch — unfolded into a collective inquiry into production, collaboration, and responsibility. Seeds, soil, water, and sun marked the starting point, but time, labor, knowledge, failure, and dependency soon emerged as equally decisive elements.
Rather than focusing solely on outcomes, the video also makes visible what proved difficult. Practical obstacles, the limits of self-sufficiency, uneven distributions of time and energy, and questions around care and accountability all surface.
The video evolved into a space where questions were enacted rather than answered: what does it mean to share land? How can care be practiced collectively? How close — or how distant — are we from the origins of what we eat every day?
This video invites viewers to look back without fixing conclusions, leaving room for ambiguity, contradiction, and open-endedness. The project continues to resonate through memories, experiences, and insights.