Directing
The band of memories is an almost archetypal story of a man and a woman, in which dreams and illusions follow quickly. The path of memory is part of Point Taken. This project consists of four dance films, for which Dutch choreographers and filmmakers joined forces to write the film script.
An Homage to Tex Avery. Pixelation short from the Netherlands.
Two men in chairs by the open hearth; photos move in front of their heads.
It’s always party time with the De Nooijer family at home. Innocent pleasure or a political film?
Menno de Nooijer had previously collaborated on Paul's films, but this one marks the launch of a directors' team that lasts until today. Two man stick their heads through a decor, photographs revolve around their heads. Unfettered reflection on their own work, the basic assumption being a quote from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, which also appears in other titles of their films: 'Nobody had informed me that at one view - I should see a palace, a town, a fortified city, - temples on high places […]'. In 1989, this film was granted the jury award at the Holland Animation Film Festival. (filmcommission.nl)
What was young gets old, what was healthy is sick. Uncertainty has crept in. What started out tough ends in melancholy. In that sense, this is a farewell.
Two women and a man test poor sound equipment by shouting "test one two" into the orange microphone increasingly loud and aggressive.
Strip Show 1850 (11 min.) is a remarkably detailed yet simple film on Zeeland's magnificent traditional costumes, which are removed layer by layer. This short costume drama gives new meaning to the museum film genre. Strip Show 1850 is part of a series of museum films specially produced by Paul and Menno de Nooijer for the reopening of the Zeeland Museum.
This is a film, that was a picture. What’s the difference? Photography takes time away, film adds time.
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Short film about the questions: When does a line become a shape, and when does a shape become three dimensional?
Exit is a flashback by a man of fifty. He remembers the moment when, as a young photographer, he was realising an exhibition of his own artistic work when he was unexpectedly commissioned to make a music video. The offer at first seems like the answer to his financial and personal woes, but during the preparations, a childhood trauma he has not come to terms with ensures unexpected complications and everything threatens to turn into a fiasco.
Short film about the question: Why are oranges orange?
