Eliane Esther Bots

Dutch filmmaker/visual artist Eliane Esther Bots is a core tutor at the Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy. She has extensive teaching experience as an educator in Moving Image at the University of the Arts in Utrecht and institutions such as ArtEZ Zwolle. Eliane graduated with a Bachelor from the University of the Arts Utrecht, participated in the post graduate program Document & Contemporary art in France and is also an alumni of the Master here at the Netherlands Film Academy. 

Eliane mostly works within the realm of documentary film, sometimes expanding this into installation, performance, audio works and publications. Her practice explores the idea of ‘the narrating self’, and the changes in narrative position and story when people experience a disruptive, life changing event or conflict.

Eliane’s films have been shown at prestigious festivals including IDFA Amsterdam, Locarno Film Festival, and Berlinale, as well as exhibited in renowned institutions such as Kunstmuseum Bonn and POLIN Museum Warsaw. Her film In Flow of Words garnered multiple awards, including the Pardi di Domani Best Director, the BONALUMI Engineering award at Locarno Film Festival and a Golden Calf for Best Short Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival. She has also been a programmer for Go Short Film Festival in Nijmegen.