| Statement about: a Skin Too Few the days of Nick Drake by Jeroen Berkvens "I've never entertained the idea of other people knowing who Nick
Drake was. I just took it for granted that he was 'my' Nick. I now realise that there's
many, many people out there who feel the same as I do about him and who will carry on his
memory." Nick's room. (real video) This is one of the many statements there
are about Nick Drake, the tragic musician who is the subject of 'a Skin Too Few - the days
of Nick Drake'. I hesitated long in making this film, not only because I sympathise with
the quote above but also because he died without leaving any visual traces except some
photo's. Without having the possibility to rely on archive-footage I wanted the film to
have an authentic and sober feeling that fitted his hauntingly beautiful music. 'a Skin
Too Few - the days of Nick Drake' is my attempt as a filmmaker to approach the silent
landscapes, locations and people in the life of this unorthodox loner in the hope of
understanding his state of mind. |
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Berkvens BIOGRAPHY
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 A Skin Too Few |
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The affected
reactions of the people involved in telling Nick's story after seeing the first print
endorse the fact that making 'a Skin Too Few' was worth it to stop treasuring Nick's work
for myself. 
Jeroen Berkvens is born in 1968 in Eindhoven in the
south of Holland. After finishing highschool he studied for 5 years at the AV &
Cinematographic Design department of the Academy of Arts in Breda. The internships during
this study were as an assistant at a film series on art and design, and in Portland USA as
an assistant-director for a children's fiction film. At the same time he was responsible
as curator for the new artists' platform of art-institute 'Lokaal01', and a co-founder of
filmmakers-collective Cinema33.
Among his documentary
work there is a television series on documentary filmmakers in the ex-Soviet
Republics for which he portrayed the celebrated and reclusive Arthur Pelechian, and a film
on the extraordinary gipsy guitarist Jimmy Rosenberg and his personal battle.