Directing
In Holland, a group of Armenian terrorists have swung into action, murdering a Turkish intelligence agent and holding his son for ransom. As the battle of wits between the terrorists and the Dutch police plays itself out, an author from Armenia living in Rotterdam finds himself following the events as he thinks back on his life in his homeland, indulging in fantasies about his past, his future, and his obsessions.
The Healers is a deconstructed reconstruction of a memory set in Rotterdam’s mid-1990s nightlife. The party scene is presented in a triptych: the thrills of the night, the location, the date. Layers that normally form a cinematographic entity by merging together are stripped bare and served separately. Eventually the pre-process of making the film becomes the film itself.
In FEAST, perpetrators, victims and their spectators become involved in a dramatic reconstruction of the Groningen HIV case. The film tells a story about power and surrender, the reversibility of truth and the desire to come home somewhere.
And a voice said: "Hope comes in many forms, but for tonight, you're on your own." (16mm blown up to 35mm)
1989: two kids make their first date through a telephone dating line.
The architecture, families, and front porch flora of suburban Rotterdam captured on 16mm.
BLINDER consists of 6386 photographs representing all the objects and characters featured in the English translation of José Saramago’s 1995 novel Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. In conceptual parallel with these images, the film’s soundtrack is comprised of 6386 audio samples extracted from Blindness, Fernando Meirelles’s 2008 feature film based upon Saramago’s novel.
