JUMP

A woman stands at the edge of a pier. She wilfully jumps. Slowly she falls through water where time catches her breath.
What are the memories between the transitional period of jumping and hitting the water when life becomes momentarily suspended. Alive not dead. What memories would be placed to validate existence. Memories to record. Real or perceived.

  • Cléa van der Grijn
    Director
  • Cléa van der Grijn
    Writer
  • Cléa van der Grijn
    Producer
  • Renee van der Grijn
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    26 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 28, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    55,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Ireland
  • Country of Filming:
    Ireland
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art ( purchased as part of their national collection )
    Dublin
    Ireland
    Purchased by IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART as part of their permanent national collection
  • Demetera International film festival
    Paris
    France
    Award winner
  • Austin Art house
    Austin , Texas
    United States
    Official selection
  • ARFF Amsterdam film awards
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    Award winner
  • L.A Underground Film Forum
    L.A
    United States
    Honourable mention
  • Oakland Film Festival
    Oakland, California
    United States
    Finalist
  • WRPN womens International film festival

    United States
    Award winner
  • Defy film festival
    Austin Texas
    United States
    Official selection
Director Biography - Cléa van der Grijn

Cléa van der Grijn (b. 1967 Ireland) is a visual artist, film maker and writer based in Sligo. After graduating with first class honours from the National College of Art and Design Dublin, van der Grijn presented more than 25 solos exhibitions and 40 group shows nationally and internationally.

Van der Grijn , employs various media, including site-specific installation, experimental film, large format photography, collaborative projects, sculpture, drawing and painting.
She travels extensively and has lived in Italy and Mexico with her young family, researching the relationship between emotional time and measured time, and the concept of memory and time through the culture of death. RECONSTRUCTING MEMORY was presented as a major experiential installation and film for The Model, Sligo, in 2016. Limerick City Gallery 2017 and Rochester museum, Minnissota USA 2017. Van der Grijns international award winning film JUMP (2018), has been screened nationally, in Europe and the USA. The JUMP project (film/neon/architectural POD + paintings ) toured Ireland for 9 months consecutively in five venues ; 2018/19 and was made possible with a major Arts Council touring award.

JUMP has been officially selected for multiple international film festivals and has picked up numerious awards.

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Director Statement

ARTIST STATEMENT

Truth hurts. Since 2008 van der Grijn has been working on the subject of death. Her practice deals with unraveling the complexities associated around the culture of death and reconstructed memory, researching the myth of repressed memory, re- imagining and process all become part her narrative, understanding the rational, social and emotional circumstances that become constructed around memory and time. RECONSTRUCTED MEMORY (2016). The process of her studio practice is multifaceted. This is demonstrated through painting, film, installation, sculpture, audio and writing, which all deal with the reconstruction of time + memory. Fact and fiction. A construct rather than a deconstruct.
In JUMP (2018) van der Grijn asks what are the memories between the transitional period of jumping + hitting the water when life becomes momentarily suspended. When viewed from our typical perspective of being within and perceiving the world according to linear time, the period of a jump, between the precipitation of the action and the landing, the splash, happens in an instant; and from this perspective, not much can ‘happen’ in an instant. This is the effect of forgetting that linear time is a projection, a construct that the mind creates to make it possible to self-identify and exist in the world. This is the
paradox at the foundation of the experience of being in the world: the need to deny ontological reality to self-identify and to exist, juxtaposed with the deep yearning to know the truth of this ontological reality so as to know the whole truth, the truth of our essential being.