GALM - Music Video

Together with Punk-Poetry band GALM, I set out to make a music video reminiscent of the good old VPRO-days. Directed by Lonneke van Heugten’s imaginative poetic reflection of the relation between work and art, we visit a strange, colourful factory. A factory where workers process traumatic documents by turning them into tiny pieces of confetti. But what happens to the miniscule artworks when they’re finished? And is the boss really as egocentric as he’s made out to be?

KDL Sleuteldag - Aftermovie

Every year a band of old technicians visit KDL’s workshop to work on their prize-winning pieces of automobiles. Their hair might’ve turned grey, their passion for style has never been so alive.

HET STROOMHUIS MOET DOOR - Poetry Film

An iconic place of culture burned down in 2024: Het Stroomhuis.
In an effort to rebuild what was taken away from the local underground community, I’ve created this eulogy. It was used as a promotional to gain crowdfunding for all materials lost to the fire. This film asks the question whether the spirit will also die along with the materials.
The answer is given by the community itself.

Support het Stroomhuis here

THE ART OF TYSON GOUDSMITS - Interview

It’s not often that I encounter an artist with a healthy mindset and a clear vision to making art. After talking to Tyson for only a few minutes you can tell he has his heart and mind in the right place. After visiting his exhibits, you’ll find that his craftmanship is equally matched to his spirit.
This interview is a plea for the younger generation: to make art doesn’t require a specific goal in mind. So what does it require?

Visit Tyson’s website

NEW BLOOD - Short Film

"One woman's trauma is the other's delight."

Every year at BUT Film Festival I create
This year the BUT TV Team took the time to create a fully fledged short film named NEW BLOOD. NEW BLOOD is about BUT's newest member, a young woman who might not have been well-informed about the nature of BUT Film Festival.

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LEEGSTAND - Poetry Series

“In LEEGSTAND, the poets' collective OORZAAK, in collaboration with filmmaker Tom Elswijk, paints a portrait of a generation on the wrong side of a gentrifying society. Against the backdrop of the sometimes colorful, sometimes dystopian, vacant TAC in Eindhoven, the poets express their concerns, fears, dreams, and delusions. Captured in an intense manner, we leap from romantic optimism to dark cynicism, witnessing what remains of a generation on a crumbling foundation: the word.”

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IS THE DESIGN ACADEMY LEAVING? - Voxpop

The rumour in the spring of 2024 was that the Design Academy Eindhoven, to great dismay of the local design community, might be looking to move to Roermond. Gathering together, the community, consisting of students, alumni, teachers, politicians and locals took a stand to protect the DAE from this decision. I was asked to capture the differing opinions and views held by the attending parties.

PUBLISHED HERE BY STUDIO040

FUN LOVING DETECTIVES - Promotional

Theatre buffs Guido Gerard & Cyril Holtkamp asked me to create a detective-themed promotional film for their company ‘Fun Loving Detectives’. Their company offers a theatre experience like no other; a murder mystery carefully curated to specific locations and clients.
The challenge here was to mimic a style that hints at classic murder mystery films such as Agatha Christie’s Poirot.

The fact that we had an entire castle at our disposal surely didn’t hurt…

DE MELKER - Web Series (in production)

For the past year I’ve set out to research the Dutch housing crisis and the stories revolving it. The outcome is a fictional web-series called ‘De Melker’. In De Melker we follow Sarah, who finds herself split between her newfound ideology and her background when she, together with her new boyfriend Joebeau, finds out about a horrific conspiracy involving a tyrannical landlord that she happens to know all too well.

Read more about De Melker here

Dutch Television show NACHTDIEREN shot some charming behind the scenes footage along with interviews of the first episode.

WATCH IT HERE

EINDJE VAN DE WEEK - Comedy Sketches

Mike Weerts, Creative Director of Studio040 and initiator of the pilot-talkshow “Eindje van de Week”, approached me with an offer I couldn’t refuse. Weekly one-to-two minute sketches related to every episode’s subject or theme. The challenge was a perfect fit for my style of filmmaking: quick, dirty yet clever and well thought out. Keep in mind that I had only a week to concept & produce each episode. In this project I did all of the production, animation, camera, edit, you name it.

Watch all sketches here.

IRIS PENNING - Short Poetry Film

My mornings consist mostly of taking a stroll to the swimming pool to get some exercise. One morning, as I was looking out of the pool windows, I saw how the outside pool was being demolished. This touched me, for the outdoor pool was a place that carried many memories for me. And so it did for our city poet Iris Penning. We immediately jumped on the opportunity and on a snowy day in March 2023 we went out to create a requiem for this memorylane.

HOBOJOBOS - Woonprotestlied

In solidarity with the national housing crisis, lead singer Joebeau from the HOBOJOBOS wrote this protest anthem. As our interests in this housing crisis overlapped, I decided to capture Joebeau’s raw spirit for the subject in this music video. Our project gained interest from national television. The program ‘Nachtdieren’ came to visit a gig we organized in a squatted house. As you can see in the film, the dutch squatter’s movement is gaining more and more traction. This caused us to shoot during the historic housing protest 26th of February in Amsterdam.

F16 GEMS - Brand Video

After having created the logo for toothgem company ‘F16 GEMS’, the owner asked me to create a multifunctional brand video. One that could be split into parts and used in social media campaigns throughout the year. The video represents the ‘bad b*tch’-lifestyle; going out with your girls, having fun and going about causing mischief.

Toothgems are small diamants in all shapes and sizes that can be placed on teeth for longer amounts of time.

STUDIO HEDWICH HOOGHIEMSTRA - Research Video

Dutch Design Award-Nominee Hedwich Hooghiemstra commissioned me to help her portray the beginning of her project researching the accessibility of ‘Huis Sonneveld’ for ‘Het Nieuwe Instituut’. This video had the goal of laying out the goals for this research project with clarity and grace. I shot, edited and graded this video as well as recorded the voice-over. The music was composed by Dylan Greene.

PHEMIAN - Live Performance Videos

I had the honor to accompany new folk group PHEMIAN to the Kruisruimte, Eindhoven. Here they recorded a number of songs of which I was responsible for shooting their performances.
Follow their channel here

Buckle Up a.k.a. Baklap - Film

What do you do when you’re in a global pandemic, and you see all your clients slowly fading away because of lack of budget? You pick the last remaining client, and go HAM. That’s exactly how this beast of a project came into existence. Many of the cast & crewmembers of this interactive film-project felt they needed to spend their time wisely, and so they did; with this project we intended to push our limits in the fields of technical skill, endurance and ambition. The result?
Find out at www.baklap.com

Mike Weerts - FVK ‘N VMSTRDVM

In light of my upcoming mid-length film we came up with the idea to let one of the main characters rap a comedic homage to the city of Eindhoven (also a major character in the film). After sending in the track to local song-competition ‘The Sound of Eindhoven’ we received a lot of response from locals and gained a spot in the Top 5 Audience Award. This led us to perform the song live on stage and create this music video, tying it to the renowned football match PSV-AJAX, ending the video with a slight teaser for the upcoming film. The music video stars multiple local stars such as Fresku, Frank Lammers, Henk van Straten, Sharon Kovacs, Dikke Dennis & Johan Vlemmix.

Hallywood 25 - Livestream Show

During the COVID pandemic I was involved in creating weekly video content for the unique live-stream show “Hallywood 25”.
The wildly spectacular artist’ hub located in Alkmaar, HAL25, started this livestream show as a means to support art during these times of crisis.

I was responsible for making the promotional teasers and the weekly item ‘Groeiend Verlangen’ during the first seasons (8 episodes).

You can find all my video’s for Hallywood 25 on this page.

An Evening With Knives - Music Video

PUBLISHED HERE by Never Mind The Hype
After having lots of fun making a crowdfunding promo together. The band expressed their desire to work with me on a serious project. They came up to me with the lyrics to the song “Sacrifice”. Since the lyrics had a very critical tone towards religion, I could not stop myself thinking of my own religious experiences, which are subtly embedded throughout the course of the film. The greatest challenge of making this film were the Special FX shots, we actually had to build an extra floor in one of the set’s rooms in order to pull off the ‘tilting world’ shot. The other ‘tilting’ world shot was created with a large custom-built wooden construction, which let the camera tilt 180 degrees over Arno who was praying at his bedside.

Ons Joske - Short Film

PUBLISHED HERE by GeenStijl
PUBLISHED HERE by Eindhovens Dagblad
PUBLISHED HERE by IndeBuurt
Here’s the trailer for my short comedyfilm ‘Ons Joske’.
In it we follow Niek, a 17 year old boy who just finished his first day as a bartender in a brown pub, and learns what it truly means to tell a good pub story.
Being part of a Dutch tv-program called ‘Goud van Brabant’, it attempts to capture a vital part of the provincial ‘Brabantian’ culture

Share the Vibe Eindhoven - Commercial

PUBLISHED HERE by Gemeente Eindhoven
Citymarketing bureau Eindhoven365 asked me to create a film that expressed the vibe I associated most with the city of Eindhoven. So as I started researching, I found out that there’s not much to be found on the origins of this town. So I decided to fill in the gaps in a manner that suits today’s tendencies; a lot of newcomers from all over the globe.
Here’s a video of how this film was exhibited on the streets of Eindhoven.

Iris Penning - Music Video

The Dutch cultural industry has, during this COVID-19 lockdown, suffered many repercussions. In this video, Iris wanted to show the empty streets, halls and theaters of Eindhoven. This way she wanted to give the repercussions a strong image. So that people know what they’re missing. In making this video it was hard not to get sentimental about the past months. And still I wonder if we can ever visit the theaters and music halls in the same way we did before COVID-19.

Joost Hoekaf - Music Video

After seeing and hearing Joost Hoekaf spit bars in a manner that I’d never witnessed before, I decided to contact him to see if he might need an interesting music video. He was thrilled and literally asked me if I’d fallen out of heaven. After he’d sent me the EP he was about to release, I immediately had ideas for what to do with it. In this music video I tried to express the ‘boyish’ quality that rap music can take on. This is a little revenge story where the boys strike back at the girls.