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Rodèlle – I’m Afraid I’m Not I had been in talks with Robert from Rodèlle for a long time about doing a video for him. Over the last couple of years talks and plans were ramping up, until finally in 2013, we decided to give it a go. Script There was a new Rodèlle EP coming […]

Lecture For a local filmcompetition in Lux, Nijmegen I was asked to give a lecture on indie filmmaking. The theme of the competition was the future of Nijmegen and the planned artificial island in the river to the north of the city.

Shot in an abandoned hotel, lost in the woods for over 30 years, I present to you the new music video for Distel‘s track “hxxx”. Location Scouting Distel and I spent some time talking about his new track, the ideas behind it, the lyrics (in Japanese by the way!), when we hit upon an idea. […]

Update Time goes by so fast, when you´re busy! I can´t believe that it´s already been so long since the last update. There´s lots of news so let me just jump right in! Black Devil Disco Club During the summer I got in contact with French electro legend Black Devil Disco Club‘s, Bernard Fevre. His […]

Don’t you just long for summer, when it’s this cold? =) It’s been some time since I’ve updated the blog, that’s because I’ve been very busy over the last months. In my regular life, I have a job and in October, that job changed. I now have to travel up to 4 hours every day […]

A new film! I’m currently working on a new short film, a dark comedy called “The Space Between”. It was written by my friend Andrew Hickson, owner of the best cocktail bar in Nijmegen: Absolute Zero. Currently we’re in pre-production, still punching up the script, scouting locations and planning our schedule. We’re also looking for […]

Since I’m running Adobe’s Premiere Pro as a part of Production Premium CS5.5, I bought an nVidia Quadro 4000 to make sure I take advantage of the CUDA technology and Adobe’s Mercury Engine. My platform is a Mac Pro 8 core 2.4GHz with 24GB RAM, which came with an ATI Radeon card that is not supported by Adobe. Apple […]

The Gathering will be touring South America this summer with their South American Ghostride tour. To help them promote the tour, they asked me to shoot a promovideo for their tour. Last year I also produced two promo’s for the benefit concert they did in Chile for the victims of the earthquake. Them doing a benefit show like […]

On December 18th 2010 in Den Bosch during MOL, my good friend Peter Johan Nijland gave a performance with his ultragrotesque project Hadewych at a special location. Also my friend, the great experimentalist Zeno van den Broek gave a performance with his project Machinist. MOL is a project by Renk van Oyen, based on the concept of three acts of half an hour […]

After filming the Chapelsessions in the summer of 2010, I was asked once again by the local branch of VPRO Broadcasting Company to film a series of semi-acoustic sessions. These sessions were part of the Gesel XL 2010 Music Festival. I shot the sessions on two Panasonic DVX100B’s and created an intro for them. There were performances by: The Jacobites En […]

Each year the summerfestivities hit my hometown of Nijmegen like a nuclear bomb. Nearly one and a half million people descend upon our city near the river to be merry and enjoy music at a party called “De Affaire”. This year I was asked by VPRO Broadcasting Company to film a number of special acoustic sessions in the oldest stone […]

This spring I filmed a short portrait documentary of Rob van Hattum, Film director for Science Programs at VPRO Broadcasting Company and Creative Director at NEMO science center in Amsterdam. This short version was made as an assignment for the Art Academy I’m currently enrolled in. There are still plans to make a longer version of the portrait, though […]