The Tribulations of Gregor Zampa

We are working with diligence to film “The Trials and Tribulations of Gregor Zampa” by Robben Fuhler, he is finally graduating from the Willem the Kooning Academy.

The script is ready, we will shoot in June, but, as goes for any film, we need money.

By donating you are helping the cause of Gregor Zampa, the aloof director you can see in the trailer. The film will be shot in the style of documentary, with actors in a real life environment.

About the project:

This project is about the role of art, film and commercial. What drives a movie? Ticket sales, marketing, glamour, premieres, red carpets?

The film follows a commercial director that has made a lot of financial success shooting commercials, yet the financial success is not making Gregor happy.
Gregor is looking for something bigger than money, something more valuable, they want to be adored, loved. Gregor wants to change the world, they want to be featured on all the headlines.

The headlines would read:

“Gregor Zampa’s visionary commercials are changing the way we think about capitalism”

Or, “Gregor Zampa’s commercials are in the same realm as that of Haneke and Kubrick”

Dreams are lovely, in the cruel reality Gregor is not famous and nobody cares about his commercials for high fashion brands.

The goal of this film is for the world to appreciate Gregor for what they deserve; recognition. It’s an experiment on the boundaries between fiction and reality, commerce versus autonomy, money agains art.

What do we need money for?

We will film during one of Gregor’s shoots, in June Gregor will be shooting a commercial for a flower shop in Amsterdam.

Our crew will be there with Gregor on this day, we will film the making of the commercial and in addition we will film a fictional scene with Gregor written by Robben Fuhler & Rutger Nijkamp in a hotel in Amsterdam.

-Renting of camera, lenses, light, location etc
-a fee for our production crew
-a fee for our post-production crew

When the film is finished it will be sent to international festivals and have a premiere in a cinema in Rotterdam.

Crew:
Director: Robben Fuhler
Script supervisor: Rutger Nijkamp
Cinematographer: Milan Smit
Gaffer: Leon de Haas
Main character: Osas Akhagu
Line producer: Ella van Gils
Executive Producer: Rob Meerman & Shane Bergvik
Costume design: Welmoed Bosch
Styling: Yasemin Kevser
Set builder: Smila Rooseman
Sound recording: Sebastiaan Verbeeten
Graphic design: Winta Ghebre

About the director:

Robben Fuhler works with fictional stories that contain documentary elements. He is interested in how films offer a manipulated representation of our world through technical and stylistic choices. After gaining six years of experience in commercial shoots for clients such as Adidas, Calvin Klein, Prada, Hermes and Ace & Tate he now assists in documentary productions and is currently working on his first feature documentary and a his short fiction debut. He completed a film technical education at MediaCollege in Amsterdam and is currently studying Audiovisual Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.