Amsterdam-based writer and director. Hybrid productions where live action, VFX and AI work as one.

I came up through years of animation and motion design and visual effects, and that long road taught me to hold the whole of a project in my head at once. I like to be the author of the whole image: the colour, the mood, how the light behaves, what sits up front and what falls away behind, from the shoot all the way through post. Because I know on set what the footage must become in post, there is room for the good accidents, like an actor who knows what the character wants and finds something true that nobody wrote down. The story and the concept and the look of a thing must pull in the same direction, like a good team of horses. When they do, the work is strange and new and still says what it has to say before the viewer looks away.

I work with cameras and VFX and AI, the dreaming machines, to build heightened worlds that reach past what a camera alone can catch. Between commissions I write and direct my own genre films, like my short Zwart, about how the machines we carry change the way we hold on to one another.