Free to work: how to use performative elements in cinematic storytelling
"In theatre, everything you perceive is part of the performance, real-time determining the creation of illusions. In film, the process of identification starts earlier. As a spectator, I always perceived the 'window on the world' offered in a cinema experience as more real then what I could achieve in theatre. I became more and more interested in film and I started wondering how I could invert the perspective: use theatre in filmmaking instead of using film in a theatrical performance." read more

The Hornhunter
"I was trained and educated as a photographer and I have the ambition to explore the realm of film. As a photographer, I was used to finding things out while creating images at the same time. Most often, I did so by myself or in direct collaboration with people in front of the lens. In my films before my arrival to the master's program, I used the same approach: create a concept and throw myself in a situation with a camera in order to find out what happened. I found out that I'd like to get more out of filmmaking. And that film radically questions my way of working." read more

Meet the Neighbors
"Somebody raised a question: how would you describe the colour blue to a blind person? It was this question that stuck to me. I didn't want to use clichés like 'an apple is red' or 'the sky is blue'. Instead, I articulated that our favourite colour says a lot about our character. This marked a new start of my research. I drafted colour-character sheets with questions about first memories, biggest fears and greatest accomplishments, et cetera. On the basis of this information, I started to build seven characters." read more