Jeroen Van Der Stock
Directing
Biography
Jeroen Van der Stock (°1979) is a Belgian-born filmmaker who earned his Masters in Audiovisual Arts from the Luca School of Arts in Brussels. In his work he often explores ideas around rejection, dysfunctionality and abandonment. Van der Stock his video works have been screened at festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Jeonju, RIDM, Rencontres Internationales and CPH:DOX and institutions such as Bozar Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, Weltmuseum Wien, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro and Cinemateca Uruguaya. His short film Night Horse won the Grand Prize at the Image Forum Festival and was nominated for the Found Footage Award at IFFR. Van der Stock is currently living and working in Kanagawa, Japan.
Known For
Lao Yang is head of logistics of the group. He is responsible for the equipment, building materials and food (mainly chickens) to arrive in the isolated Chinese prefab camp. The Congolese government was supposed to deliver these things but so far the team hasn't received anything. With Eddy (a Congolese man who speaks Mandarin fluently) as an intermediate, Lao Yang is forced to leave the camp and deal with local Congolese entrepreneurs, because without the construction materials the road works will cease. What follows is an endless, harsh, but absurdly funny roller coaster of negotiations and misunderstandings, as Lao Yang learns about the Congolese way of making deals.
Empire of Dust
A radical 'found-footage' remake of Diabolique (1996), a remake of the French suspense thriller Les diaboliques (1955). He puts the spotlight back on Sharon Stone, a forgotten film goddess, and perhaps the last real film diva?
Stone
Was the Brussels Innovation fire (1967) just a dramatic accident or was there more going on? Through exclusive interviews and edited archival material, a conspiracy theory is constructed in which the CIA and some property developers are assigned important roles. Despite the frivolous mysticism, there are many truths in this mockumentary!
Smokescreen over Brussels
A cave with an animal trapped inside? An eyeball vaguely reflecting a sleeping horse? A peephole into the black night? A dark side of the globe? An electro-acoustic soundscape by Eliane Radigue guides us on an abstract journey through the night. Entirely based on footage from unsecured live surveillance cameras.
Night Horse
When the state of Georgia proceeds with the court-ordered execution of Ivon Ray Stanley, a correctional officer provides a step-by-step account of his death.
The Execution
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Wild Beast
In a mysterious Japanese woodland, there’s a building cats and dogs are taken to. Where do they come from and do they also have to go back? What’s inside the dream box? Technological ingenuity, hygiene and mechanical action contrasts the dirt of stray animals.
Dream Box
A quiet sunset gets interrupted by a couple of mosquitoes and a voice recording of a man listing the side effects of an infamous malaria medicine.
Lake Laram
In Silent Visitors, Ayumi, Doitehu and Mike all share the same passion for haikyo. Their visits to these contemporary ruins reveal some aspects of their unique personalities, and at the same time, shines a subdued light on a post-tsunami Japanese society.