This video has been made as a photo presentation in the photography course I have done. This photography course has been given by the well renowned photographer Jelmer de Haas.
This photo documentary tells the story of a sing and songwriter. The inspiration he gets, the rehearsals with his band, the live performance, and the good memories of succes. The sing and songwriter is a dear friend of mine. I like the beautiful music he makes, the passion involved crafing a song and the friendships of his band mates.
Credits
Maurice Vanderfeesten – photography, video editing
Scato Eggen – lyrics, vocals, guitar
Eelco Eggen – vocals, drums
Ely Deckers – bass
Music used by permission of Tri Tone and Death of Rats
The photo’s used in this video are shown in the galery below.
All photo’s are copyrighted, and can be reused by permission in writing only.
Charles Ferguson was interviewed during the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) by Daphne Bunskoek (VPRO). Charles mentioned that his passion for making documentaries started with the age of six.
Jandergrouwd from drama group Oostpool was an unusual piece with a lot of mixed media elements. It was about the undergrownd movement during the communist period in Russia. Undergrouwnders are people who want to preserve their freedom of mind during the oppression of a communistic regime. The underground sprouted up on different locations in Russia, independently from each other. The literature they wrote was dangerous to have in possession or to read it. So it was temporarily available, and was burned after a while in order not to get caught. This makes it a very actual topic with the Pussy Riot case.
The audience gets an impression that they are lucky with the freedom of mind and freedom of expression in our current age. In the piece the discussion went on what freedom really is, or is that freedom you experience not so free as you think? For example you cannot leave your life you are having right now because your social bonds, your mortgage, etc.
In the end the piece shows that the Russian democracy and capitalism as it is now, also isn’t heaven as promised. Solidarity is gone, every man is for himself, live is harder.
My friends Felix and Jona. With Lenin on the foreground.
RUIN – An animated short set in a post-apocalyptic universe. It’s only a tiny sliver of a much larger story. Thankfully, it’s now set up at 20th Century Fox to become a full length feature.
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From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. In this talk, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action. (Filmed at TEDxEast.)
Nancy Duarte believes that ideas are the most powerful tools people have. Her passion is to help every person learn to communicate their world-changing idea effectively.
Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands’ chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. In this talk, he explains how his career is one shaped by a love of peace, not a desire for bloodshed — and why we need armies if we want peace. (Filmed at TEDxAmsterdam.)
General Peter van Uhm is the Chief of the Netherlands Defence staff.
Een korte film met één camera, één bouwlamp, één aggregaat en een nog totaal onbekend script.
Felix en Maurice tonen 15 januari 2012 weer een ongekend cinematografisch hoogstandje dat in twee dagen tot stand is gekomen.
De locatie van de shoot staat vast: de oude mijnfabriek Beringen in het Belgische Wallonië.
De première is op zondag 15 januari 2012 om 22:00u op de Jupiterstraat 15 in Utrecht. Iedereen is van harte welkom.
Ben je geïnteresseerd om een of twee dagen van je leven toe te wijden aan de totstandkoming van deze film, laat het dan aan ons weten. We zoeken acteurs, cateraars en publiek.
The Age of Man, or the Anthropocene. As cultural philosopher Peter Sloterdijk wrote in his book “You have to change your life“, we are living in an age where mankind itself now is a factor of change in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Peter wrote that this is the age where the human mindset for the first time is thinking globally, and is realising more and more that his actions have a global impact on many factors. These factors are part of complex intertwined global systems. These sysems can be Economic of nature, where the complex interconnection became very clear during the financial crisis, and also Ecologically of nature, where the climate crisis did it part. As written also in the Economist of May 26th 2011. “Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too”. Nowadays mankind IS a significant factor in the earth-system, he can no longer stand back and ignore the fact that he should take control of the wheel. For its own survival mankind should organise itself, have a long term vision and as one organism steer the earth system in the right direction. The vision is Resilience, not sustainability. Sustainability is grasping for maintaining the status quo, Resilience is about making flexible so it can withstand dramatic change. Like the buildings build in Japan, their foundation is made flexible, so the building can withstand and absorb earth quake shocks.
The climate top in Copenhagen 2009 showed that mankin is not ready to make the offerings to create a resilient vision. When it fails to cooperate and still hold on to its current model of Ultra Consumerism, mankind will face a grim future. The documentary called “The Age of Stupid” tell us how the world looks like in 2100 if we don’t have a globally organised mandated vision. The documentary also tells us where it went wrong. Age of
The title of the book from Peter Sloterdijk is well apt: “You must change your life”. This means: completely as we know it, in order to prevent the earth system to collapse to a point of no return. the current models will not be fit for a planet that holds billions of people striving for the Western way of life.
At the TED conference Johan Rockström explains that the earth system has nine buffer area’s, that can take hits from ecological disaster after disaster. When that buffer is depleted, the logic of the system changes drastically, and may drive in the opposite direction. When the logic changes, it is harder to predict who the earth system will react.
The sources of energy are getting depleted in 100 years time since the start of the industrial revolution, where mankind sets aside God, and became God himself. Now mankind can create its own future, yet it has to learn how to control and steer it in the right direction.
The challenge for mankind is to generate a different global mindset, and have faith the vision will be merciful for its future. A new world religion should be born, with its own rituals and priests, where millions of minds are mentally supporting the new world vision. Perhaps that is how to get the different global mindset. The mindful actions are the rituals, and the scientists are the preaching priests.
So what to do now? Well, there is hope according to Prof. Louise Vet there is hope. She learns us to “Think global, act local“. In her presentation at the TEDx conferentie in Amsterdam, she teaches us that this mantra is the only solution to be flexible for future set-backs.
“Think global, act local”. In other words be resilient in creativity. The artists of today have this creative mindset we can set to work in the anthropocene for other things then making paintings and sculptures. In the Netherlands the government stopped subsidising the Art sector in 2011. These people are the new poor, or the new hope. They will become the new hope, only if world governments are starting realising that; to live in the Anthropocene means to start taking control over the drivers wheel. The creative of minds know how to be resilient. They are masters in wielding the steer, so let them act and play their role on a local level within society.
Personal note: My challenge would be to enact this mantra “think global, act local” much as possible. And furthermore help others to enact this mantra as well. Currently I don’t know where to start. I can think about local farming, but that means I need to have knowledge and the time to do it. Buying the right things. Eating local food, food that comes with the season. Investing in local energy stations (solar, wind). There is this small book called “practical idealism” that would be nice to read.
From 2007 until 2009 I was running a very successful film making platform with a friend, Leendert Oostlander (see the picture below in the video stream), in Utrecht. This platform was to offer Film makers a stage where they could make short films and show it to interested visitors in a real cinema. After 2009 we realised we couldn’t manage this with continuing our day job. It was either this or nothing.
So we decided to hand the platform over to the community that increasingly grew. They continued in Eendags_, a platform not exclusively for film makers. So the management over the Eendagsfilm.com website came to a halt.
We had a lot of fun, had good times, but it all remains to the past now. We can now look back with good memories of the time we crafted a lot of creative short films, and gave people inspiration and the possibilities to do also.
photography by Jan Coolen; edited by Maurice Vanderfeesten
It was called Eendagsfilm, with the logo of a One-Day Fly, to represent the starting seed and the final result of the labor of one-day film making. The film teams got a common theme in the morning, and came back in the evening with completely different interpretations. Eendagsfilm was exciting, an most of al fun! I enjoyed it.
Today I decided to close down it’s website, eendagsfilm.com, by the 1th of August 2011. In Memorial I have saved the video’s. You can watch them in the video stream above, als long as blip.tv is still offering the service. The video’s can be watched on the internet, and on digital tv channels all over the world, if I take the effort to convert to MP4. All the other stuff, like pictures etc I have put in a zipfile archive. eendagsfilm-website-files
Goodbye Eendagsfilm, I try to keep goodtimes in memory : )
The clip below shows the first Opening of Eendagsfilm, where Leendert Oostlander is presenting the start of where it all began on November 16th 2007.
Actually, it began on July 20th in 2007, where Leendert and I came with the concept and made our first short film (see the video section) in just one day. The audience was enthusiastic. They reminded us they liked the concept and would like to join and create short films in one day as well. So we stared looking for the right location to offer our friends a cinematic experience. Reports about this you can read on the online SAPmagazine.
photography by Jan Coolen; edited by Maurice Vanderfeesten
Leendert Oostlander & Maurice Vanderfeesten. Photo: Niek Heemskerk
Leendert Oostlander & Maurice Vanderfeesten. Photo: Niek Heemskerk
Maurice Vanderfeesten & Leendert Oostlander. Photo: Niek Heemskerk
