From Where We Come - Jan Van Looveren

“I grew up in a farming village, Ekeren, where my youth glided along the seasons. With six friends, the Bonanza boys. Without cell phones, without the digital storm that blows now. Only the street as our playground. Life was simple, the days seemed to crawl. If only I could return once more, crawl back into the fantasy of then. To be a cowboy again for a while. That child of then, free from tomorrow. Did we know much about what was to come, or about what we had never seen.” Jan Van Looveren returns to his youth, to a time when everything was still simple, far away from the fast life now. His biggest question as a child was whether he wanted to play the cowboy or the Indian. A carefree existence, then, but was everything really so simple back then or did it only seem that way? This strong, comical monologue with live music is a warm and recognizable look back that leaves no one untouched.