Artist-explorer. From personal and on-site-specific experiences to the larger contemporary world. The process of creation is an exploration. Sequences speak an intuitive language and open the senses. Let yourself be inspired beyond the obvious.
I am a tranversal artist eager to bring my videopoems or short films to an active audience. Like my creation process, it is personal but migrates to the wider world. My firts step is research. A lot of reading, viewing and assimilation. In this my concept and location grows. The actual location is part of the exploration, and it usualy becomes one of the characters. Images and sounds are original, recorded on-site, keeping the rough edges, reffering to a documentary style, however also to juxtapose to the all-too-perfect simulacra in our society. The outcome is not literally, nor is there a classical plot. The proces of creation is drenched in realtime and lived poetry. In my studio I revive the objets-trouves: I simultanuously edit images and video, refine the poetry and compose music. There is a sort of surreal humour, irony and self-mockery that always creeps in, I cannot help it, I actually welcome it.
The main topics surfacing are ecology, human primal behaviour and art, nonhuman entities, nature and culture, landscape, aesthetics, hyperreality and virtuality, my personal life, and ofcourse interacting with you, the other. Philosophically I am influenced by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Morton and Deleuze.
PORTFOLIO
Short Film Taking Time: these are on-site video/performance/installations with live audiences:
- Kortrijk Art Weekend: shortfilm screening/installation in gallery Art & Design Productions, 2024.
- Outdoor screening and workshop in a park 'inspired by Triennale Brugge' on 20-24/07/2021 and 6-7/11/2021.
Video Poems and short fims on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/showcase/9417030)
Molded forvever (2026) - Achilles en de Schildpad (2026) - Common concerns on an intersection (2026) - Eigengrau (2025) - Flowers of Shanghai (2025) - Landwater (2025) - Island at the End of the Earth, 10 poems (2025) - Tournesol (2024) - War & Peace (2024) - Helium, H2, and methane (2024) - Leaves (2024) - To the Mall (2023), IMDb Qualified - The people, the right cause (2022) - Us (2022) - Le Champ de Mars (2021) - The public is not present (2021) - Carnage (2021), Darkentries (2021), IMDb Qualified - Exoplanet (2020)
Very short short films
Five more days (2022) - Bernadetje (2021) - KoudHelderSpiegelWarm (2021)
Forlorn fields (2020) - Papillon (2020) - The writer (2020)
Music Videos
The Ladder (2023) - Car Shuffle (2022) - Wolf’s Run (2020)
Award Best Experimental Film
Darkentries
Luis Bunel Memorial Awards
Kolkota
2022
Semi-finalist
Le Champ de Mars
Phoenix shorts
North York
2022
Semi-Finalist
Le Champ de Mars
IndieX Short Film Fest
Los Angeles
2022
Semi-finalist
Le Champ de Mars
Palm Springs Movie Award
Palm Springs
2022
Official selection Best Experimental Short
Le Champ de Mars
Paris International Short Fest
Paris
2022
Finalist
Exoplanet
Palm Springs International Film Awards
Palm Springs
2022
Semi-finalistBest Experimental Short
Exoplanet
Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift
Toronto
2022
Official Selection Short Film
Exoplanet
Hamburg Film Awards
Hamburg
2022
Honorable Mention
Exoplanet
Monza Film Fest
Monza
2022
Winner Best Original Score
Darkentries
8 & Halfilm Awards
Rome
2022
Official selection for Best Experimental
Carnage
Vancouver Independant Short Festival
Vancouver
2022
Official Selection Experimental
Darkentries
LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival
Nassau
2022
Semi-Finalist
Darkentries
Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift
Toronto
2022
Screening Inspired by Triennal Brugge 2021
Darkentries
Triennale Brugge 2021 Inspired by Short film taking time, Darkentries
Brugge
2021
Winner Award Best Sound Design
Carnage
2 14 17 International Film Festival
Paramakudit
2021
Official Selection Best Environmental Short
Carnage
Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift
Toronto
2021
Official Selection Best Music in Short
Carnage
Niagara International Film Festival
Niagara Falls
2021
Winner Best Indie Short Film
Exoplanet
Art Film Awards
Skopje
2021
Official Selection Long Short Film (IMDb Qualifier)
Darkentries
AltFF Alternative Film Festival 2021 - Toronto
Toronto
Official Selection Best Experimental Short
The public is not present
Indie Short Fest - Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Official Selection Best Experimental Short
Darkentries
Indie X Fest 2021 - Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Official selection Best Experimental Short
Darkentries
London Indie Shorts Festival
London
Semi-Finalist
Eigengrau
Indie Short fest
Los Ange
College
UGent
Bachelor of Arts in Art Sciences UGent, Major Performance and Media Art
20162019
Birth Date
June 11, 1969
Current City
Brugge
Gender
Male
Artist-explorer. From personal and on-site-specific experiences to the larger contemporary world. The process of creation is an exploration. Sequences speak an intuitive language and open the senses. Let yourself be inspired beyond the obvious.
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  • Darkentries Semi-Finalist
  • Carnage Award Winner for Best Sound Design
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