Duet
Duet
a short film
Lube love…game or struggle?
music: Eric Vloeimans and Jeroen van Vliet
première: EYE Film Institute Netherlands_Cinedans_International Dance on Screen Festival_NL_2014
short film
2:33 min.
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Stone Dance
Stone Dance
a short film
Don’t you just hate it when everything starts slipping through your fingers?
There’s only one remedy: keep on dancing!
Two hands and four dancing legs try to hold back falling stones – in vain.
music: Mark Peters
première: EYE Film Institute Netherlands_Cinedans_International Dance on Screen Festival_NL_2013
short film
2:03 min.
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The Moon Overhead
The Moon Overhead
a short film based on the lyrics from “I’am open” by Pearl Jam:
A man lies in his bed in a room with no door
He waits, hoping for a presence or something, anything to enter
After spending half his life searching, he still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he?
When he was six, he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs
So this is what it’s like to be an adult?
If he only knew now what he knew then.
music: from the live dance performance “SoHereWeAre” by dance company connyjanssendanst
première: Marion Art Gallery_State University of New York_USA _2013
short film
2:27 min.
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The Anonymous City
The Anonymous City
a short hand painted and hand drawn film based on the stories about invisible cities in the book
“Le città invisibili” by Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
commissioned by Stichting De Loods Nijmegen_NL
première: Filmtheater LUX_Nijmegen_NL_2011
short film
11:05 min.
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On Two Square Meters
On Two Square Meters
a film diptych that was made specially for Julidans (Festival for International Contemporary Dance) with two dancers from the dance company Conny Janssen Danst.
First, the dancers’improvisations were filmed.
Afterwards the imaginary world around the dancers was created, by applying paint, paper, camera and video editing.
This way, a short dance performance was created that only exists on video.
dancers : Maarten Hunink and Dario Tortorelli
commissioned by Stichting Julidans and
City Theatre Amsterdam
supported by Conny Janssen Danst and
the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
première: Amsterdam City Theatre_2010
two synchronised HD films / installation
7:08 min / loop
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installation view / entrance Amsterdam City Theatre
The Dark Corner
The Dark Corner
a short film
A dark corner may exist both in a physical space as well as in the mind.
dancer : Dario Tortorelli
supported by: Conny Janssen Danst, Rotterdam, NL
première: EYE Film Institute Netherlands_Cinedans_International Dance on Screen Festival_NL_2010
short film
1:52 min.
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While We Are Waiting
While we are waiting…
installation for in Gallery Inkijk
subwaystation Waterlooplein in Amsterdam
As we wait, giant hands squirm around us.
Are they threatening us? Do they play us? Do they protect us?
What are we waiting for, by the way?
light, projection, paintings on paper and on fabric
Walled In
Walled In
a short film
In the fall of 2009, when Germany was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
I spend a month as an artist-in-residence in Berlin.
During my stay I did research on the building and the fall of the Berlin Wall and on the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) / the Stasi, the Secret Service of the DDR and their archive and prison in Berlin.
Themes such as the lack of freedom to move around, the lack of privacy and group behavior are related to my work in general, so I was inspired by my Berlin-research to make a short film:
“Walled in”.
dancer : Dario Tortorelli
supported by: Conny Janssen Danst_NL
première: Marion Art Gallery_State University of New York_USA _2013
short film
3:50 min.
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Shadowlands
Shadowlands
installation in a former warehouse
Pakhuis Wilhelmina in Amsterdam
You usually do not recognize yourself on photographs of your earliest childhood years. You know: “that child is me, I was there”, but memories are missing.
If you try to move yourself into the world of childhood photos, you almost feel in the dark.
The installation “Shadowlands” reconstructs the world of early childhood photos and can be experienced as a strange landscape that is fairytale and ghostly at the same time.
(slide) projections, film, light, objects, paintings on paper and on fabric, dollhouse
So Here We Are
So Here we Are
installation for the contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst
in the Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam
The installation, created especially for this project, marks the transition area between outside (the city) and inside (the dance floor).
The audience walks through a spatial construction of painted, semi-transparent canvases.
Shadows of spectators merge with painted human figures through the use of light.
The figures on the canvases seem to be involved in a fierce battle; both with themselves and each other, and with the painted environment in which they find themselves mirrored.
The painting is a choreography that has solidified over time.
The painting is made up of human figures that have been taken from observations during rehearsals by Conny Janssen Danst. All kinds of movements that can be seen in the periphery of the incipient rehearsal process, were forged into a baroque composition.
commissioned by contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst_Rotterdam_NL
9 panels hand painted on both sides
size 740 cm x 200 cm
height: 370 cm
