Peet Gelderblom
Writing
Biography
Peet Gelderblom is a director, writer, editor and video essayist from the Netherlands. His very diverse filmography includes collage films, documentaries, commercials, drama, online content and broadcast design. He has written and edited numerous articles and video essays for RogerEbert, IndieWire, Imagine Film Festival, Fandor, Film School Rejects and Slant. His archival fiction feature When Forever Dies carries the tagline "A cinematic fantasia 125 years in the making." Assembled from fragments of hundreds of largely forgotten movies - most of them found in the Eye Filmmuseum archives - it tells the story of two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows, fighting to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. In 2016, Gelderblom's re-cut of Brian De Palma's "Raising Cain" became the first fan edit to be crowned official Director's Cut. The Hollywood legend let him supervise its restoration for an internationally praised Blu-ray release.
Known For
Pact with the devil in the most extensive and longest-running liquidation case ever in the Netherlands: the Passage process. What drove the government to cooperate with murderers as key witnesses? How did the deals come about? The precursor to the Marengo process still raises many questions. Was the process fair? Or was it a case where justice was 'too big to fail'?
Pact met de Duivel, In de Wurggreep van het Passageproces
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Verkracht of niet?
Three young people look back on their plague past and the dark valley in which they ended up. They dare to talk openly about how they found the resilience to turn their lives around.
Eindeloos Gepest - Het Verhaal van Nora, Tren en Anne-Ruth
An archival fiction feature about the eternal battle of the sexes, in which two star-crossed lovers trapped in a kingdom of shadows fight to keep their love alive as they gradually fall in hate. Their names are Forever Man and Forever Woman. They are embodied by actors and actresses from long-gone eras, but also by cartoon characters and puppet animations. Together they narrate the story of the euphoric ups and tragic downs of human existence. When Forever Dies, a virtuoso collage of film fragments from the Eye Filmmuseum archive, is an epic ode to largely unseen cinema anchored in the polarizing world of today.