Prison with Songbirds (2022)
NL / UK | Documentary & Fiction | 12' | Digital & 35mm | 1.66:1
An unseen narrator tells his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country and his random release. Based on a letter sent to Amnesty International, by my father, and a surreal interview given about it. ‘Prison with Songbirds’ is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital-35mm collide.
Voice & Stories: Jonathan Mitchell
Production: Salvador Miranda
35mm Animation: Ugo Petronin
Cinematography: Christiaan van Leeuwen & Abel van Dijk
Editing: Lotte Louise de Jong & Ewan Macbeth
Sound Design: Filip Degernäs
Set Design: Ella Gerritssen
Art Departement: Marcus van Binsbergen, Dido Woelders & Nick Mansveld
Lighting Design: Stefan Prokop
Best Boy & Titles: Andreas Drosdz
Set Builder: Leo Postma
Grading: Boje Ploeg
Distribution: EYE Filmmuseum / SEE NL
Screenings:
2023: Makers van Morgen VPRO
2023, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Short Film Market
2023, EYE Filmmuseum, Eye on Art
2022, Ji.hlava Film Festival, Fascinations
I Declare a Thumb War (2020)
NL / UK |2K Video | 5’ | looped | 1.43:1
In a therapy session a traumatised veteran dwells on a boy from his past. Based on propaganda photographs of soldiers playing “thumb war” with children in countries they invaded and occupied.
Main Cast: Leo Postma & Rayan Maulabaks
Cinematography: Christiaan van Leeuwen & Andreas Drosdz
Production Design: Marcus van Binsbergen
Sound Design: Filip Degernäs
Titles: Stefanie Vogl
Grading: Laurent Fluttert
Screenings / Exhibitions
2022, ARWE, Gouda
2021, 2YKFF, Izmir
2021, Kinolikbez, Saint-Petersburg
2021, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2021, Art Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020, Videotheek, Galerie de Jaloezie, Rotterdam
2020, Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam
2020, EMAF, Osnabrück
2022, ARWE, Gouda
2021, 2YKFF, Izmir
2021, Kinolikbez, Saint-Petersburg
2021, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2021, Art Rotterdam, Netherlands
2020, Videotheek, Galerie de Jaloezie, Rotterdam
2020, Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam
2020, EMAF, Osnabrück
Divided Together (2018)
NL | HD video | 4’ | looped
A politician seamlessly shifts from a leering chat with a make-up artist, into a speech for a newly-invaded country. Based on the behaviour and lies of coalition leaders at the start of the so-called “War on Terror”.
Cast: Jeremiah Fleming & Gill Baldwin
Writers: Ewan Macbeth & Tom Roberts
Camera: Zhibin Qin
Editing: Lotte Louise de Jong
Sound Design: Salvador Miranda
Titles: Andreas Drosdz
Grading: Laurent Fluttert
Supported by EYE Filmmuseum Research Labs, 2018
Screening / Exhibitions
2020, Art Rotterdam
2019, Faraway Lands, Caraboo Projects, Bristol
2019, Miasma, NeverLand Cinema, Rotterdam
2018, Research Labs, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Mass Production (2016)
UK | HD video | 4-channels | 15’ | looped
Inside a Rupert Murdoch owned printing press; the largest of its kind in Europe. A private glimpse of the News Corp empire as 60,000 newspapers are created.
Cinematography: Jack McCombe
Sound Design: Filip Degernäs
Grading: Laurent Fluttert
Selected for the RSA New Contemporaries
