With their documentary 2KM2: A Square View, co-directors André Van der Hoot and Carel Van Hees etch out an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rotterdam, Holland. The filmmakers travel through many unique and colorful facets of this metropolis, from the two square km.-sized, unfenced hunting area at the heart of the city, to the skyscrapers housing the economic and political authorities who govern the community, to the Afrikaander District, a neighborhood sporting residences built for laborers from Brabant and Zeeland but now serving as the home to new immigrants from other geographic regions. Through it all, as residents teem across the cityscape - engaging in their day-to-day activities - a number of constant factors that tie this community together become abundantly clear.
by Nathan Southern
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