Master of film - Nederlandse Filmacademie - Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
Mieke is also the Head of Research at the Nederlandse Filmacademie, or ‘Academia de cine de los Países Bajos’ in Spanish. For their first Research Week open to students, they chose the subject of ‘Immersive Media’. Good stuff.
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Comments closedGodard’s approach to À bout de souffle has been sensational since the film gained momentum, and it in itself helped turn its momentum into a well-deserved permanent notoriety. Since the author rarely answers back what the interviewer asks, and I was wondering about how the actors perceived this methodology, I decided to look for Belmondo’s or Seberg’s take on the issue. Lucky me, the Internet happened and I found my answer.
Continue reading In the end, he either dies or leaves
Comments closedWhile shooting ‘Your Mario Dancing’ (currently in post-production) I realized that our rehearsals had burnt out some great moments that worked on the basis of my non-actors authentically reacting to situations.
Continue reading We’ve shot seven takes, now let’s start
Comments closedAs an attempt to get closer to my research question, I am mapping themes, ideas and references I have tried to embrace as a director.
Continue reading Not there yet
Comments closedI mapped myself and my research proposal. I couldn’t sleep for two nights, my mind was busy overlapping this information with my previous works.
Comments closedIn order to identify what I watch when I see and what I observe when I watch, I went to my cellphone’s backup from the last few months and categorized its contents.
Continue reading Pigeons are empty
Comments closedFrom the footage we collected during the houseboat episode (for our individual films), we cut a collective piece. The clip above is my contribution and I approached it from the resources Timo and Francesco brought up at the beginning, and taking into account the pacing and intriguing sensation I got from David’s cut, as well as some additional footage.
Continue reading Mike’s extended family
Comments closedEliane Esther Bots graduated from this same course in summer. Eyal asked her to come to tell us about her journey during the master’s.
I appreciate her willingness to be crystal-clear about her mistakes, and I admire how she currently embraces confusion.
Comments closedMy first Dutch film. Here I was supposed to subjectively map the territory and, since I’m an expert in getting lost, I decided to do it on the basis of time.
Continue reading Mike the Duck
Comments closedMieke and Sam, some beers, some peers, trains, Utrecht, a screening and a meeting.
On the meeting it was pretty much disclosed that this country has the same relation with funds that the Internet has with porn: there’s a fund for any possible activity your mind could come up with.
Utrecht is beautiful.
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