Jongeleen’s latest video work, Oostdorp, is a filmed portrait of a house discovered in a remote, abandoned military training area. Oostdorp is used as a training village by various military units to familiarize themselves with urban warfare. The village consists of several houses, some of which are specially equipped to demonstrate the mechanics of booby traps. Jongeleen enters the houses and films his expedition. The result is a portrait of an “untouched house,” sketched by the intruder, intercut with tunnels and trenches that surround and intersect the buildings.(1)
(1) An untouched house is a novella by Dutch author Willem Frederik Hermans, published in 1952. It tells the story of a Dutch soldier during World War II who takes up residence in an abandoned house in a muddy no man's land.