Dan Geesin
Netherlands
2011 | 0:13:00

From behind locked doors and surveillance cameras, Thomas sees it all working his first night shift at the gas station. But will he stand apart or fall in line with the society that surrounds him?

Arjen De Leeuw
Netherlands
2012 | 0:11:00

A woman tries to understand who she is and what her life was like. A group of scientists found her standing on an icefloat in Arctic waters. She used to be one of them. They found her back, but her memory is gone. Her state of mind and the state of the melting glacial ice surrounding her run parallel in the film .

Anna Abrahams
Netherlands
2012 | 0:20:00

A film about mankind’s primal drive to climb to the top of every mountain. Would it be possible to survey our complex existence on a mountain? Do angels fly around? Or do you have to fight off dragons? This timeless journey over the summits of Europe is the last part of a trilogy about the cultural significance of the landscape, after "Desert 79°" "3 Journeys Beyond the Known World" and "5 Walks"

Daya Cahen
Netherlands
2012 | 0:19:00

In this experimental film, confessions of guilt by accused people in the Yugoslavia Tribunal are mixed with childhood memories of a twenty-something, who lived in besieged Sarajevo as a child - exactly twenty years ago. What does war do to a child, to a person? By asking the woman the same questions over and over again about her memories before and after the war, the transformation of a child in wartime becomes painfully clear

Roderick Hietbrink
Netherlands
2011 | 0:08:15

"The Living Room" is a video installation existing both as a three-channel and a single channel version, screened both in film festivals and the museum/gallery circuit. It is a non-narrative piece that shows in an absurd fashion and a deliberate slow pace how our representation of reality is actually a construction. No longer protected from the outside by the thin sheets of glass, the vacuum of the room is broken by the destructive invasion of an oak tree. Being both realistic and absurd, the confrontation between the two raises questions about the meaning and symbolism of the tree and of the private domain within the Western culture.

Marta Jurkiewicz
Netherlands
2011 | 0:22:00

An intimate documentary reflection on loneliness and loss. After ten years living abroad, Marta returns to Poland to help her mother clear out her recently deceased grandmother’s apartment. The geographical separation which so defines this mother-daughter relationship is represented by blending 8mm family archive film with Skype conversations. Going through the old objects in the grandmother’s apartment brings up the issue of care taking and how its responsibility is shifting to the next generation.

Simone Bennett
Netherlands
2011 | 0:09:00

Beginning with a shot reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, MOTOR is a short film/music piece that follows the secretive behavior of a group of seven people living in the same building. An atmosphere charged with tension, enhanced by a haunting sountrack, in which paranoia and rumour spread like a virus. Inside sadness seeps through the walls, while outside fear escalates like burning flames. MOTOR premiered at Rotterdam in 2012 and won the Netherlands Film Fund prize in 2009.