Martijn Veldhoen

ARTEMIS viewed on two festivals: Wildlife Festival Rotterdam (Nomination best short film) 4 – 11 November. Videomedeja, Serbia. 10 – 12 October. ARTEMIS already viewed on: Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, The Netherlands. Groote Museum Amsterdam (Pre-premiere and viewing with lecture). New York City independent Film Festival (Nomination best short documentary). FAUNA Tepoztlán Festival, […]

Artemis received an award for ‘best film’ at the FAUNA festival in Mexico and was selected for 2 more festivals. The film is finally going out into the world!  

Artemis will be screened on Monday the 18th of March at 8pm at the Groote Museum, Amsterdam. The short film is a poetic pamphlet about our supposed position above nature. With a discussion afterwards, moderated by Karlien Pijnenborg (head of the Groote Museum).   https://www.grootemuseum.nl/nl/agenda/artemis-staan-wij-boven-de-natuur  

MOMENTUM, 2003, 17’ SD video: 52 international festivals, 8 exhibitions, 2 prices, 3 nominations (amongst others a ‘Gouden Kalf’ nomination for best short film) At that time the video was ‘cutting edge technology’ and lot of hard work, now it’s probably seen as AI-generated. Upscaled in 2024 to HD by Ramon Coelho. Just put online […]

Artemis is a poetic pamphlet about our supposed superiority over nature. The film reverses the prevailing narrative on the passivity and pitiability of nature and for once lets the animals do the talking. Wild foxes, herons, cormorants, gulls and bison: they tell us how they are doing. They show us their lives in the 4th […]

The short film Artemis, through an image of the wildlife in our immediate environment, questions our supposed position above nature. Who is actually above whom? Artemis is now officially in production. The Film Fund and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts are supporting the project.    

In transit was screened at the NYC international independent film festival, New York, the Peleponnisos International Documentary Film Festival and had its pre-premiere at FC Hyena, Amsterdam.  

‘In Transit, Identity and Love in Europe’ is a documentary film on the premise that you will find the true Europe on a personal microlevel. The film follows six people with dual European nationalities for four years. Some of them are confronted with the current political events in Europe, like the Brexit, the Catalan crisis […]

Friday the 3rd of April my film ‘Time and Place, a talk with my mom’ will be broadcast on NPO2 Extra. The film can also be seen on 2doc.nl and Vimeo. Watch Time and Place on 2doc Watch English version of Time and Place Time and Place, a talk with my mom The mother (Lotje Ruting) of […]

‘In Transit, Identity and Love in Europe’ is a documentary film around the premiss ‘you will find the true Europe on a personal micro level’. In the film we follow six people in Europe who live in the countries that still form the core of the EU: France, Germany, Spain, Italy and (for a short […]