An van Dienderen

Bel­gi­en 2015, 11′, Doku­men­tar­film, Eng­lisch ohne UT

Bild­ge­stal­tung: Léo Lefèvre
Mon­ta­ge: Fairuz
Ton: Lasz­lo Umbreit
Pro­duk­ti­on: Elek­tri­scher Schnellseher

Film­ma­ker An van. Dien­de­ren works at the inter­sec­tion bet­ween docu­men­ta­ry, anthro­po­lo­gy and visu­al arts. While explo­ring various docu­men­ta­ry stra­te­gies and the anthro­po­lo­gi­cal rela­ti­on bet­ween self and other, she also inves­ti­ga­tes the medi­um of film in a self-reflec­ti­ve way. She inves­ti­ga­tes the oppo­si­ti­on of fact and fic­tion, ima­gi­na­ti­on and obser­va­ti­on, repre­sen­ta­ti­on and expe­ri­ence, using the importance of the image in our mul­ti­cul­tu­ral socie­ty as a point of depar­tu­re. Her work shows the absurd, poe­tic, and often tou­ch­ing sto­ries that the­se oppo­si­ti­ons can hold in ever­y­day life.

She gra­dua­ted in audio­vi­su­al arts (Sint-Lukas, Brussels), obtai­ned a PhD in Com­pa­ra­ti­ve Cul­tu­ral Sci­en­ces (Ghent Uni­ver­si­ty), and was a visi­ting scho­lar at UC Ber­ke­ley. She made seve­ral docu­men­ta­ries scree­ned world­wi­de, award­ed with (inter)national pri­zes. Films include Visi­tors of the Night (’98), Site (’00), Tu ne ver­ras pas Ver­a­paz (’02), The Eph­eme­rist (’05) Patra­sche, a Dog of Fland­ers – Made in Japan (’08), Cher­ry Blos­soms (’12), Let­ter Home (’15) and Lili (’15). She regu­lar­ly publishes on visual/performative anthro­po­lo­gy, is a lec­tu­rer and artis­tic rese­ar­cher at the School of Arts Ghent, and initia­ted the inter­na­tio­nal art workspace Sound­I­ma­ge­Cul­tu­re  and pro­duc­tion­com­pa­ny Elek­tri­scher schnell­se­her. Her work has been shown on the Mar­ga­ret Mead Film and Video fes­ti­val (New York), FID Mar­seil­le, Doc­Fest Shef­field, Bel­luard Fes­ti­val (Fri­bourg), DMZ Korea Inter­na­tio­nal docu­men­ta­ry fes­ti­val, Inter­na­tio­nal Short film Fes­ti­val Ober­hau­sen, FIDOCS, Fes­ti­val Inter­na­cio­nal de Docu­men­ta­les de Sant­ia­go, Inter­na­tio­nal Film­fes­ti­val Rot­ter­dam, etc and is repre­sen­ted by argos.