DEPTHMAP NEXT

DEPTHMAP NEXT is a direct sequel to DEPTHMAP (2019) and emphasizes the use of third-person chase footage, experimental camera movement, fluent slow-motion, longer runtime, a look-and-feel with a higher sense of depth and a technological extension towards layering and inversion by combining the original footage and its corresponding depth of field map altogether.

  • Jordy Veenstra
    Director
  • Gallery Six
    Music
  • InSpectr
    Music
  • HMage
    Q3MME
  • CaNaBiS
    Q3MME
  • ent
    Q3MME
  • auri
    Q3MME
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Machinima, 3D Animation
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 11, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Netherlands
  • Country of Filming:
    Netherlands
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    TARGA Files
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Milan Machinima Festival 2022
    Milano
    Italy
    February 3, 2022
    Official Selection
  • ALC Video Festival 2022
    Alicante
    Spain
    May 1, 2022
    Honorable Mention
  • Athens Digital Art Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    May 22, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Lift-Off Sessions
    Iver Heath
    United Kingdom
    October 16, 2022
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Jordy Veenstra

Jordy Veenstra (1993) is an experimental filmmaker, machinimator and post-production professional. Starting with Photography, binge watching 'Back To The Future' and creating home video's at an early age, Veenstra moved on to machinima in early 2007 after discovering videogames such as 'The Sims 2', 'Garry's Mod' and 'Quake III Arena' and understanding their potential for expressive cinematic storytelling. His first so-called weekend-projects served primarily as personal assignments to improve his creative insight. Many of these, alongside tutorials, gameplays, reviews and short skits were uploaded to a YouTube channel called 'maximummovies' (2006-2010), which in its prime reached thousands of subscribers and viewers.

To date, Veenstra's work has been featured in film festivals, game art exhibitions and machinima festivals in numerous countries, such as the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom and Russia. Besides his fulltime dedication to art, Veenstra works as a Video-Editor, Motion Graphics Designer and Animator in a Creative Agency and is a part-time entrepreneur. In the little spare time he has left he is currently working on his first book, which focuses on his own framework for the cinematic enhancement of machinima films, called 'the practice of distortion'.

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Director Statement

'DEPTHMAP' (2019) and 'DEPTHMAP NEXT' (2020) purposefully shed new perspectives on a timeless classic, push the bar towards its cinematic representation and change existing associations originally taken for granted.