Film response Onderneming Onderdak. The portraits.

The camera portraits the two kinds of characters inside their surroundings, including the various and articulated patterns of the floors, walls, curtains, furniture (like fake marble) of the immigrants’ house interiors; and white, cold light, stacks of paper, wallets, are used to portrait the Dutch offices. The “exploiter” is also portrayed on a boat, while the immigrant kid is portrayed laying against a wall on the street. 

There are long pauses on the kid’s faces and the kids interrupt themselves while being interviewed, not knowing what to tell next or not knowing what to do next to change their current situation. 

The head of the “eviction department” looks a tiny man compared to the huge Amsterdam city map behind him and the scene fades away while he's explaining the problems and impossibilities of the immigrants-shelter situation. 

Amsterdam is filmed from the water of a canal, where ancient and long-lasting walls emerge from the water.