Uitkijk x De Internet Gids | Rooksporen (1992)

In collaboration with De Uitkijk, the digital literary magazine DIG is organising a special screening of *Rooksporen* to mark the digital reissue of *De vrouw die een rookspoor achterliet* by Lidy van Marissing. This experimental work formed the basis for the film and was difficult to access for a long time. With this revised edition, DIG aims to fill that gap. 

The film will be introduced by Fiep van Bodegom, who also wrote a new afterword for the reissue. Following the screening, a pirated copy of Van Marissing’s debut novel Ontbinding will also be available. 

The central character in *Rooksporen* (1992) is a woman facing an interrogator. Interspersed with these interrogation scenes are sequences in which 26 witnesses (from A to Z) are introduced: first in their homes and then in a room adjoining the interrogation room. The interrogator has an ambiguous identity and role: at times he addresses the woman directly with questions, at others he turns exclusively to the witnesses, listening and watching, acting as a sounding board. The witnesses, too, have an elusive identity. Who or what they are remains unclear; they exist thanks to the sensuality and/or enigmatic nature of their language. Nor is it entirely clear what the woman is accused of. Most witnesses do conclude that she is guilty, but of what exactly remains the question. The only thing that is beyond doubt is that she is an outsider. Just when she seems to be pin-pointable, she eludes the dance in which every observer tries to draw her into their own perspective. 

DIG (The Internet Guide) is a multimedia digital literary magazine that focuses on experimental publications. As a fully online platform, we seek out groundbreaking forms of language, image and sound. These include multilingual poetry with live translation and animations, poetry videos, poetry soundscapes, visual essays, and collaborations between writers and visual artists. What forms can literature take on the internet? Where are the boundaries of a digital publication? What can actually be called literature? 

Fiep van Bodegom is a writer, critic and translator. She has published reviews, essays, interviews, translations and prose. She is an editor at Extra Extra Magazine and teaches in the Creative Writing department at Artez University of Arts.