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The mechanics of perception and subjective experience deliver a deep feeling of the reality of the world in and around us. And with that, what we know and feel as ‘truth’. But we are fallible: our machinery of perception is incomplete. Questioning, deconstructing and reconstructing experience itself makes me deeply curious to what that truth of our inside and outside world actually could be. Making work on the edge of film, documentary and art serve as a great canvas for that curiosity. Film as a feeling, an experience, a perception.  Memories, dreams, feelings.

I use cinematic tools like lyrical camera-movement within naturalistic settings, with a focus on analog 16mm film. I like to mix impressionistic and elliptical storystructures and combine them with atmospheric music and sounddesign. My style is intuitive, and always rooted in extensive research combined with a documentary approach, making short experimental documentaries and film installations.
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Exhibited
- ETMAAL FESTIVAL 2022 / Mechanics of Tranquillity (2 channel 53’ filmloop)
- NFFx030 - Filmart in BASIS / Mechanics of Tranquillity (2 channel 53’ filmloop)
- Filmcafé 2019 / Echoing Memories (9’)
- CENTRAAL MUSEUM • “Dromen in Beton” Exhibit 2020 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’ filmloop)
- RAUM Utrecht • 2020 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’)
- CENTRAAL LAAT • 2020 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’)
- Cultuur Zondag • 2020 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’)
- Kriterion Rotterdam • 2016 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’)
- Centraal Station Utrecht • 2016 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’)


Selections & Nominations
- Ji.hlava IDFF 2023 • Short Joy Competition / Blue Light (16’)
- NFF • Nominatie Gouden Kalf Beste Korte Documentaire 2017 / Asylum (23’)
- FIC AUTOR • Nominatie Best Short Documentary 2017 / Asylum (23’)
- SHORTCUTZ • Nominatie Best Experimental 2019 / Echoing Memories (9’)
- Largo Film Awards • Nominatie Best Experimental 2016 / IK ZIE, IK ZIE (7’)


Further festivals selections/competitions:
- Netherland Film Festival 2023 / Blauw Licht
- Shortcutz 2019 / Echoing Memories
- LIAFF 2019 / Echoing Memories
- Prisma Rome film festival 2019 / Echoing Memories
- Go Short 2017 / Asylum
- Netherland Film Festival 2017 / Asylum
- FIC AUTOR 2017 / Asylum
- Hollywood screenings film festival 2016 /  I Spy I Spy
- Ouchy Film Awards Lausanne 2016 /  I Spy I Spy
- Largo Film Festival 2016 /  I Spy I Spy
- Lisbon International Film Festival 2016 /  I Spy I Spy
- shortcutz Film Festival 2019 / Echoing Memories
- Rotterdams Open Doek 2016 / I Spy I Spy
- Shortcutz 2016 / I Spy I Spy


Won
- SMHAF* 2019 “Voices of Experience” Main Award / Asylum (23’)
- Tegel 2022 - “Interview” / Blauw Licht



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