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 Despite the turmoil of the twentieth century, Max Schönwetter (1874-1961) devotes himself to his passion for the science of the egg: the oology. For more than sixty years, he works with great scrutiny on his life’s work: the scientific handbook of the egg. In his house, he collects 19.206 eggs of 3.839 bird species, carefully categorised in seven chests of drawers. Eggs with a vale brown colour, or dark grey eggs covered with black spots, or with a blue high gloss. 138 drawers filled with eggs: matte or shiny, white or coloured, spotted or speckled. For the continuous expansion of his collection and the acquisition of knowledge about the egg, Schönwetter corresponds with ornithologists, oologists, expedition members, museum staff, collectors, and soldiers. It is a frantic collecting, ordering and systemizing, in spite of the chaos of times. 

Awards

Amsterdam International Film Festival – Best Documentary Film Nominee, 2021
DocAviv Film Festival – Depth of Field Competition Nominee, 2022

Pim Zwier

Pim Zwier is an independent filmmaker/ media artist who studied at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam between 2001 en 2003. His work consists of photography, video-installations and documentaries, and is often inspired by, based upon, archive material.
For his documentary films he prefers to work with correspondences, diaries or autobiographies in which ‘small history’ has been recorded. These provide Zwier with the opportunity to link the abstraction of historical events to memories; a link which completes and nuances history and provides new perspectives.

Selected filmography

Building Amidst Solitude, 2017
Never a Dull Moment, 2014