AnneMarie van Splunter
Title: A Day Such As This (Amsterdam version)
Running time: 8:33 minutes

The 9 year old pupils of class 5A of primary school De Witte Olifant in Amsterdam open their curtains to start the day.

Visual artist AnneMarie van Splunter filmed the children at their homes. The film shows 21 children, 21 curtains and 21 views on a small part of the city of Amsterdam.

An optimistic welcoming of a new day, accompanied by Bill Withers’s song “Lovely Day”.