Films / Video installations

2015. documentary, HD video 16:9, 35 minutes. Watch Time and Place   Time and Place, a talk with my mom. The mother (Lotje Ruting) of the filmmaker tells about how her life has gone when she first came to live in a poorly maintained canal house in Amsterdam fifty years ago. The rapid career of the father […]

2012. 3 channel SD-video. Sync-starting video installation. 10 minutes, looping.   video   This installation is an adaptation of the film/installation Public Spaces (2006) Once ‘public space’ was a clear concept. It was a kind democratic medium that could be accessed by everyone, safely and freely available for traffic between people. Now things have changed; […]

2010. loop, HD video, aspect ratio 16:9   BRIDGE at exhibition   BRIDGE Energetically and full of determination, a man walks over a bridge, among the busy traffic. The warm backlight and the sultry silhouettes of pedestrians, cars and buses suggest that this scene might be recorded in a southern country. However, the bits and […]

2009. 6:00 minutes, SD video, aspect ratio 16:9 short film Trailer RE-constructions   RE-constructions ‘RE-constructions’ is a short and compact film about a young couple who are breaking up, and about what happens next. She leaves; he is left waiting. The voice-over, narrated by a man who presumably is already dead, reconstructs how it happened; […]

2006. 10:00 minutes, 35mm film and HDcam, aspect ratio 16:9   Trailer Public Spaces   Public Spaces Once ‘public space’ was a clear concept. It was a kind democratic medium that could be accessed by everyone, safely and freely available for traffic between people. Now things have changed; thanks to mobile communication systems, we carry […]

2004. 06:00 minutes, HD video, aspect ratio 8:3   trailer (Why do I keep going) Forward   (Why do I keep going) Forward Winner of the Grand Prix at the Split Film Festival. The single channel version was shown on film and video festivals in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Paris, Milan, Rome, Potenza, Bourges, Barcelona, Seoul and […]

2003. 05:30 minutes, SD video, aspect ratio: 16:9 Videoinstallation / single channel video tape   Trailer Momentum   Momentum To go is a verb that refers to a movement, without being specific about its nature. Walking, driving or floating, for example, are much clearer in this respect; they describe the movement as something that is […]

1998. 05:30 minutes (loop). Interactive video installation   Exhibition at the Netherlands Media art Institute   Dislocations On the Plaza San Pietro in front of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome there is a particular point from where the surrounding four rows of pillars disappear behind the first row, and the space behind presents itself as […]

1996. interactive videoinstallation   LUDWIG The computer installation Ludwig consists of a large steel construction in which you can sit down. Once you are seated, you activate Ludwig by pulling a panel towards you. This also locks you also into the apparatus.   LUDWIG is distributed by LIMA (formerly the Netherlands Media Art Institute NIMk) […]

1994. 2 channel SD video. 5:50 minutes (loop). 11 painted wall sculptures.   Satus Quo Status Quo presents us with an associative and at certain moments an almost apocalyptic series of images of men and women from prehistoric times to the present day. The installation consists of two monitors, each mounted on either end of […]