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; […]
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Commissions
Illusion of control
2012 00:00 mintutes, loop, videoinstallation. video For the entrance/exit of a big parking, in a part of the former canal from Delfzijl to Groningen, a plan is realised that reenacts the water of the canal in an immaterial way. The parkings entrance/exit is situated near the old centre of the city of Groningen. The artwork […]
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In production: documentary Time and Place
2013. 35:00 minutes, documentary. The production started March 2013, and will be finished round March 2014. Making of: Recordings of first light Making of: Timelapse device The documentary tells the story of the period the family Veldhoen-Ruting lived in an 18th century house at the Bloemgracht in Amsterdam. During the 52 years (1958 – 2010) […]
Films / Video installations
Bridge
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 […]
Films / Video installations
RE-constructions
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; […]
Films / Video installations
Public Spaces
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 […]
Films / Video installations
(Why do I keep going) Forward
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 […]
Films / Video installations
Momentum
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 […]
Commissions
The Dialectical Objective
2001 – 2003. art project commisioned by the province of Groningen for the ‘Semslinie’ art-route. In two lock keepers houses (that are eight kilometers apart) on a canal in Stadskanaal, an artwork had to be realized that the connects the two houses thematically with each other and at the same time makes a connection […]
Films / Video installations
Dislocations
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 […]