senang

Senang is a search for answers to questions about everything that has to do with the Dutch East Indies. He goes in search of recognition within his family and within the Indonesian culture to investigate a history that is never spoken of. Meanwhile, he asks himself: when are you a real Indo? Is it when you can make tasty Nasi Goreng? When you sleep in bed with a guling? Or only when you can dance the potjor potjor along? Or is culture very different and is it perhaps something you experience instead of what you do or can do? And what do you experience then? How do you deal with a culture that is slowly disappearing? He is looking for answers to the questions he gets when he looks at his grandparents. What does it mean to be a 3rd generation Indonesian Dutchie?   

In Senang, Storm zooms in on himself with the aim of gaining more insight into the traces left by the shared past of the Netherlands and Indonesia. He takes you along on his journey through images, song and storytelling.    

Storm Boender is a documentary theater maker who departs from personal stories and is part of Fontys Theater. Fontys Theater is an initiative of Fontys University of the Arts and consists of a group of young, talented makers who are given the stage to show their graduation performance to the wider public during Boulevard.