What is your specialty, what makes your work unique? Or place your artist's statement.

My work is mainly focused on being human, and the feelings and emotions that we struggle with from day to day. With my films I want to invoke a feeling of nostalgia or melancholy, by focusing on subjects that nearly every person is familiar with. Feelings of loneliness or “not belonging” are most present in my work.
I love working with a mix of analog materials and digital animation. I’m especially interested in the unpredictable nature of analog materials such as watercolor and ink. I never fully know what the resulting animation will look like before I scan in my work, and this unpredictability keeps me engaged in my own creative process.

What are your ambitions? What do you want to be in five years?

In five years I hope to have created some more short films to be proud of! Next to being able to make personal work, I hope to be able to work as a freelancer creating inspiring music videos for clients. I’ve already collaborated with Sanne Brouwer and Annabel Venneker to produce a music video for musical duo Aomame last year, and we have two more productions to work on together this summer and fall. Hopefully this will be a good kickstart to our careers. And if I really dare to dream, I hope to win the NFF Wildcard this year, and be able to produce a short film with the funding over the course of the next two years.

What is the most important thing you have learned during your studies?

The most important thing I’ve learned is that there’s not just one way of animating, which can be taught step-by-step. I’ve created my best work by experimenting, and not really knowing what I was doing half of the time.

List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.

Younger, Happier (2019) - nominated for best Short Documentary at Kaboom Animation Festival - november, 2019