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In this video, we portrayed two local farmers, Maarten and Hubrecht Janse. They are brothers who took over the farm of their father in 2009. They have 56 hectares of land. They grow potatoes, samphire, beets and barley. A lot of people have an ideal, romanticized idea of rural life. They envision being a farmer as the absolute form of freedom: free from stress, free from busy city life, free from pollution, and in harmony with nature. How appealing this image of ultimate freedom might be, reality is in stark contrast with this ideal. During the interviews with the two farmers, we discovered that they are not as free as we perceive them to be. They are bound by government regulations and are economically not free at all: they do not make a lot of money. In our video, we tried to illustrate this tension between the ideal and reality by contrasting drone images of the land with down-to-earth images of the farmer telling about his reality. We purposely interviewed Hubrecht in a tractor to engage the viewer with the rural surroundings. The music for this video had to be slow-tempo, because we thought this would nicely fit with the rhythm of rural life. It is interesting to think about the economic situation of Dutch farmers and link it to the second generation of international human rights. These second generation rights are so called socio-economic rights, and impose the obligation on national governments to ensure that the social and economic well-being of its citizens are enhanced. After talking to Maarten and Hubrecht, we got the impression that the position of the farmer in the Netherlands is under threat. The price he gets for his products is barely above cost price, and more and more regulations are thwarting his daily work. Is the Dutch government violating the second generation of international human rights? Should the Dutch government more actively promote the economic rights of farmers? These are serious questions to think about. Especially since farmers are the cornerstone of our society; without milk and bread our society would collapse within a week. The video is part of a bigger project called mapping Zeeland, which includes videos from Arts and Design students who portrayed various freedom makers from all around Zeeland. We hope that this video gives a clear image to the viewer about the freedoms and restrictions of farmer life in Zeeland. Filming and editing: Corstiaan van Pelt and Nora Westgeest. Song by Sungha Jung - It will Rain