Music Events

Morning Music: Cineconcerts

Artists: Niels Duffhues, Matteo Myderwyk Your ‘’Sunday wake up’’ with two live cineconcerts: 1. Duffhues - SUPER 8 poetics, live music & f ...

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Morning Music: Cineconcerts

Artists: Niels Duffhues, Matteo Myderwyk Your ‘’Sunday wake up’’ with two live cineconcerts: 1. Duffhues - SUPER 8 poetics, live music & film Niels Duffhues is a filmmaker/musician and performs audiovisual concerts. He will perform a cineconcert with his super 8 landscape art films. Experience how his dynamic and atmospheric guitar music poetically merges with the grain and deep colors of his super 8 films. 2. Matteo Myderwyk - live piano & film An exciting mix of film and the beautiful fragile sounds of Matteo's piano. He will merge some of his newest piano music in his own composed soundtrack together with an epic film. We offer this morning programme with coffee and sweets in between the concerts. 11.00 – 11.40 Niels Duffhues 11.40 – 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 – 12.40 Matteo Myderwyk

Morning Sessions

Meet the directors

Friday & Saturday, 11.45 - 12.30 - Cinema 2, Free entry. Meet the directors is the place to be for you as a director to get to know each other. It ...

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Meet the directors

Friday & Saturday, 11.45 - 12.30 - Cinema 2, Free entry. Meet the directors is the place to be for you as a director to get to know each other. It is an informal group debate among filmmakers, hosted by Ton van Zantvoort who’s film SHEEP HERO opened our festival last year. He will be joined by festival chairman Frans Mouws and programmer Anne Jacobs. This event is also open for the public. We look forward seeing you there! *MEET THE DIRECTORS replaces the morning sessions (which was mentioned incorrect in the printed programme).

Exhibitions

DOCFEED is more than documentaries! Stroll around our venue to find exhibitions of video artists, designers and photographers. Cinema 2 is our main exhibit room, but you will find more work all around our venue.

Benjamin van der Hoek – Dad (AKV|St.Joost)

Benjamin van der Hoek is a 27-year old documentary maker who graduates this year from AKV|St.Joost. ‘’Since I lost my own father in 2003, the rela ...

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Benjamin van der Hoek – Dad (AKV|St.Joost)

Benjamin van der Hoek is a 27-year old documentary maker who graduates this year from AKV|St.Joost. ‘’Since I lost my own father in 2003, the relationships between other fathers and sons always piqued my interest. I'm often curious of how their relationship has developed and grown, especially now that I've reached an age where a father and son usually become two individual men with their own believes and ways at looking at life. Often I wonder what the relationship with my father would be like and how much we'd be alike after all these years. Therefore I decided to take a closer look at other fathers and sons and try to catch their relationship on camera. Through interviews and various activities I want to show the complexity, strength, humor and beauty of their bond. I aspire to show how valuable and unique the father and son are to each other, with always the loss of my own father in the back of my head.’’ Credits: Benjamin van der Hoek

Cleo Julia Mullis & Juup Luijten – Awaiting a title (AKV|St.Joost)

Awaiting a title is a short experimental film starring Elina, Daniël, Parmida Tina, Kevin, Unsin, Misha, Mohamed, Achmed, Hasana, Hosna, Eyob, Zohra, ...

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Cleo Julia Mullis & Juup Luijten – Awaiting a title (AKV|St.Joost)

Awaiting a title is a short experimental film starring Elina, Daniël, Parmida Tina, Kevin, Unsin, Misha, Mohamed, Achmed, Hasana, Hosna, Eyob, Zohra, Banen, Sara and Louay. This film was created this summer where theatermaker Juup Luijten, filmmaker Cleo Julia Mullis and word-artist Hind Eljadid spent a week working with children and young people from AZC Gilze. We worked around the themes of identity, waiting and dreaming. In the end, two video clips, daily scenes, dreamy sequences and interviews where made and put together in an experimental documentary. We want the viewer to realise that many families have been living in an AZC for ten years and have built up their lives here. All this time they have been 'waiting' for their lives to start. We are in the process of finalising the film and are very curious about the opinions of the audience at DOCFEED 2020. Come watch the scenes on the second floor! Credits: Cleo Julia Mullis, Juup Luijten

Dré Didderiëns: Bus stop in Mississippi

I left my luggage, took my analogue camera and got out of the greyhound bus, just like all the black passengers did. Again another bus stop during my ...

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Dré Didderiëns: Bus stop in Mississippi

I left my luggage, took my analogue camera and got out of the greyhound bus, just like all the black passengers did. Again another bus stop during my journey through the south part America. Click. An ambulance and in the distance a wooden sign with a painted cross. In the reflection of a window I saw iron rings hanging from a tree and suddenly I noticed where I was, a place in Mississippi where the KKK killed three young activists in 1964, two white boys and one black. Shot dead and buried somewhere in the swamp. Click. Click. In 1988 Alan Parker made the film Mississippi Burning about this story, starring Gene Hackman. By coincident I stopped at this place and took pictures. This photo exhibition tells this short story in a documentary-esque way. I ask myself, what has changed through the years? Credits: Dré Didderiëns

Eline van der Kaa – The travellers (AKV|St.Joost)

My documentary is a portrait of a traditional Dutch family from the underclass of society. The originally travelers' family lives in a citizen's home, ...

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Eline van der Kaa – The travellers (AKV|St.Joost)

My documentary is a portrait of a traditional Dutch family from the underclass of society. The originally travelers' family lives in a citizen's home, as they call it. The family consists of Anna and Pedro, who form the basis of the family. They live together with their two daughters, Johanna (15) and Noëlla (10). They spend their days smoking cigarettes on the couch and philosophising about what to eat for diner. Meanwhile, their daughters live in their own world of experience: they struggle with boredom, teenage problems, friends and love. The family dreams of a different life, while they are stuck on the couch. There is love, there is sorrow, a dog runs around, the potatoes must be peeled. Waiting for a different future seems to give their lives a meaning. A portrait of the simple life, sometimes tender, sometimes hard. During Docfeed I will show one of my scenes. Credits: Eline van der Kaa

Emily Salvia

Emily Salvia is a photographic series about art student Luuk. Besides his study he works hard to pursue a career as a drag queen. Luuk identifies as g ...

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Emily Salvia

Emily Salvia is a photographic series about art student Luuk. Besides his study he works hard to pursue a career as a drag queen. Luuk identifies as gender queer. He is convinced that your personality does not depend on gender and doesn’t want to attach value to social features that come with a gender. Luuk sees drag as a form of expression that allows him to communicate with his public. His drag character is Emily Salvia. Linsey Kuijpers is a photographer from Breda who graduated from AKV|St.Joost in 2013. She has been active in the documentary field ever since. Through following the lives of her subjects for a longer period of time she is able to give her viewer an intimate glimpse in the lives of others. Credits: Linsey Kuijpers

Ikyoshie – AKV|St.Joost

Indianen, Native Americans, First Nations, Indígenas, Indians: these are several names for people I’m enormously interested in. There is a romantic ...

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Ikyoshie – AKV|St.Joost

Indianen, Native Americans, First Nations, Indígenas, Indians: these are several names for people I’m enormously interested in. There is a romanticized picture of them originated in my head. They are often portrayed as proud warriors with much spiritual wisdom. For me, they are the symbol of peace and freedom. They are the guardians of Mother Earth. Biased as I was, I wanted to explore their culture, and when I was looking for these people in Suriname I ended up in a world that was westernized. Everyone had phones, a job and a car. This is not what I expected. I wanted to question the image that has emerged around the colonial term ‘’Indians’’. My quest for their culture ended up as a search for myself, my western way of thinking and looking at the world around me. I became aware of myself and the fact that life as a white, western woman entails privileges. Credits: Daisy Roefs

Little effort

Meyrem Altuntepe, alumni AKV|St.Joost (spatial/graphic design), graduated in 2019 with her project Little effort. A large group of young children in ...

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Little effort

Meyrem Altuntepe, alumni AKV|St.Joost (spatial/graphic design), graduated in 2019 with her project Little effort. A large group of young children in The Netherlands are translating the Dutch language for their parents or family on a daily basis. The kids think that it’s little effort, but indirectly they maintain the important things of the family to get through the day. With this important task the unsuspecting kids connect worlds in many ways. By sharing their stories the young translators talk about their responsibilities, funny encounters and positive experiences of their daily task. For these kids I designed an award as a small gesture for their big responsibility, so they finally get the recognition they deserve. Credits: Meyrem Altuntepe

Losing it – AKV|St.Joost

Zoë Sluijs is currently working on a photo book in which she challenges the arrogance that some people seem to have regarding their understanding of ...

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Losing it – AKV|St.Joost

Zoë Sluijs is currently working on a photo book in which she challenges the arrogance that some people seem to have regarding their understanding of the world. Because, let’s be honest, no one really understands it and we probably never will. Zoë aims to expand the restrictive way of thinking that we all seem to accept. The photographs shown during the exhibition will tell the story of someone who loses their understanding of reality. But in her dazed state of mind she manages to find the one thing that might bring her closer to reality than she has ever been. Her doubts Credits: Zoë Sluijs

Quite normal

Aline’s art is about the human psyche and in particular things people experience as unusual. She wants to plead for a world in which psychological l ...

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Quite normal

Aline’s art is about the human psyche and in particular things people experience as unusual. She wants to plead for a world in which psychological labels don’t exist. She believes that we have to celebrate madness and open ourselves up to people who are mentally ‘’different’’ than ourselves. Quite normal - We seek patterns and logic to understand our world. We don’t like abnormality nor surprises. As long as everything follows the familiar road, we are happy. Anyone who leaves this familiar road is stigmatized. He will be stereotyped, because other people judge he deviates their norm. He experiences a psychic world that differs the common. His world does not exist for an outsider. In his world craziness rules. Credits: Aline Eikelboom

Searching for palm trees in a concrete jungle – AKV|St.Joost

In the Netherlands we always try to predict, organise and plan everything perfectly. That’s boring. We almost forget how to be spontaneous and free. ...

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Searching for palm trees in a concrete jungle – AKV|St.Joost

In the Netherlands we always try to predict, organise and plan everything perfectly. That’s boring. We almost forget how to be spontaneous and free. We’ve become a society where we are always busy with efficiency and rushing as fast as possible to our destinations. I hope to encourage those who see my work to stand still more often and look around. Perhaps climb that tree you’re passing every day when going to work. And break your routines. Credits: Joy Heijnen

Stijn Pruijsen – Akasha (AKV|St.Joost)

Follow the inner journey of a young man through the mystical realms of the universe. The journey starts after he drinks ayahuasca, a sacred brew from ...

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Stijn Pruijsen – Akasha (AKV|St.Joost)

Follow the inner journey of a young man through the mystical realms of the universe. The journey starts after he drinks ayahuasca, a sacred brew from the Amazone. The effect of ayahuasca is similar to intense dreams in which deep-rooted patterns, fears and memories arise. Through a point-of-view, you step into the skin of the participant and from his eyes you can see how he takes the drink and thus embarks on his journey. When the participant closes his eyes, he sees dreamlike visions in his mind. When the participant opens his eyes he observes the ayahuasca ceremony. This layer consists of a staged ceremony with actual counselors and emotional processes. Mystical experiences transcend the linguistic and therefore cannot be communicated to others through language. By creating an audiovisual experience I try to communicate this mystical feeling. In the mystic experience you will realise every person has his own struggle, but in essence we all want the same thing: oneness. Credits: Stijn Pruijsen

The smallest room

Have you ever been to a toilet that looked like a museum? The series The smallest room gives a unique insight into Dutch private loos. Perla van Kesse ...

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The smallest room

Have you ever been to a toilet that looked like a museum? The series The smallest room gives a unique insight into Dutch private loos. Perla van Kessel noticed that lots of people decorate their toilets. Why do we allow more silliness in this room comparing to other rooms? To answer this question Perla decided to photograph these ‘’poop palaces’’ and interview the owners. Perla van Kessel is a photographer/designer fascinated by everyday objects and the way we interact with them. Credits: Perla van Kessel