“Looking for the laundrette-vibes”

Horror author Stephen King describes the world as one big skating rink: people are constantly slipping on it, breaking their bones and if the ice is too thin, they suddenly fall through. In her technically simple, sober-poetic films, Dorothée van den Berghe gives the impression that she is trying to capture that fragile, elusive fracture surface on filmstock. "It would be fantastic if you could do that, but you have to be very good for it. Very occasionally you have that feeling. It is pure coincidence: a passage on the street or light that coincides perfectly. I always call that the launderette feeling. Sometimes you walk past a launderette with neon lights at nightfall, just as someone is doing their laundry. That's my laundromat feeling. And sometimes you have that on set. But usually it's still very crafty telling your story.